This study examined the impact strategy, core competence, and involvement of HR executives in strategic decision making on the refinery managers' evaluation of the effectiveness of HR and refinery performance among 86 U.S. petro-chemical refineries. Survey results indicated that higher...

This article explores theoretical explanations of managers' decisions about flexible benefit plans. We (1) examine the adoption and design of flexible benefit plans through four theoretic lenses: institutional, resource dependence, agency, and transaction costs; (2) integrate the relevant...

The multicriterion analysis under uncertainty (in the sense of probability) has so far been treated nearly exclusively in the theory of the multiattribute utility framework that proposed multicriterion aggregation procedures that belong to the unique criterion synthesis approach. Yet, there is...

We address the problem of choosing the cutting speed of a flexible machine-tool to minimize the expected total processing time. The tool life is a random variable with a known distribution. Tool failures cause a set-up time and thus increase processing time. We assume the coefficient of...

In this paper a Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) method is proposed. This new method uses two types of information, the superiority and the inferiority information, to derive two types of flows, the superiority flow and the inferiority flow, by which the set of alternatives are ranked...

In this paper a Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) method is proposed. This new method uses two types of information, the superiority and the inferiority information, to derive two types of flows, the superiority flow and the inferiority flow, by which the set of alternatives are ranked...