The drive to realise operational efficiencies, improve customer service, develop new markets, and accelerate the introduction of new products has substantially increased the complexity of field service operations. To maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of these operations, organisations...

In this paper we trace the evolution of economic search theory and the concomitant accumulation of insights so as to elucidate is successes as well as its central location within the economics of information. The reason for the phenomenal success of search theory is twofold. First, Stigler’s...

The main intention of this essay is to survey the recent literature on the retirement decision. It seemed that a study of retirement would be misleading unless it were coupled with the entire path leading to this decision. Pursuit of this more ambitious goal was made feasible by several recent...

This paper examines several aspects of the training and retention of Air Force electronic specialists. The major goal of the study is to investigate the responsiveness of the re-enlistment rate to changes in Air Force remuneration. The study is based on data obtained from the Personnel Research...