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The changing face of irrigation in Kenya: opportunities for anticipating changes in Eastern and Southern Africa

Blank, H. G.; Mutero, C. M.; Murray-Rust, H. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2002

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Expanding the frontiers of irrigation management research: Results of research and development at the International Irrigation Management Institute, 1984 to 1995

Merrey, D. J. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1997

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Why is the italian furniture sector resilient to the global economic slow down?

Puasa, Ahmad Fauzi; Jean-Marc, Roda; Fui, Lim Hin; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2009 (2009) 01, pp. 1-2

The world is in global economic crisis where all exports and imports slow downed in the first two months of 2009. In Malaysia there was a 30% drop of Sarawak logs and timber products exports compared to the same period in 2008 (NST April 15, 2009). All the countries in the world witnessed a slow...

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The Predictive Power of Three Prominent Tournament Formats

Ryvkin, Dmitry; Ortmann, Andreas - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 3, pp. 492-504

Tournaments of heterogeneous candidates can be thought of as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality agents. We quantify the efficiency of such selection by the likelihood of selecting the best player, here termed the "predictive power." We study three widely used tournament formats:...

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Aspects of the design of distributed databases

Irina-Andreea, Burlacu - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 1 (2011) 2, pp. 6-6

any of them. A distributed database design problem is presented that involves the development of a global model, a …

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Sequential Testing in Product Development

Thomke, Stefan; Bell, David E. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 2, pp. 308-323

A fundamental problem in managing product development is the optimal timing, frequency, and fidelity of sequential testing activities that are carried out to evaluate novel product concepts and designs. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model that treats testing as an activity that...

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Note---Multi-Activity Facility Design and Location Problems

Akinc, Umit - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 3, pp. 275-283

This paper considers the problem of optimally locating multi-activity facilities whose activity compositions are also to be determined. It is assumed that there are fixed costs associated both with establishing facilities and with including specific activities at the locations. This problem is...

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Does the Standardization Process Matter? A Study of Cost Effectiveness in Hospital Drug Formularies

Kwon, Seok-Woo - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 6, pp. 1065-1079

While research on the cost effectiveness of standardization to date has focused on the impact of different degrees of standardization, it has paid insufficient attention to the process an organization uses to formulate and implement standardized procedures. Drawing on the organizational...

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"I Think You Think I Think You're Lying": The Interactive Epistemology of Trust in Social Networks

Moldoveanu, Mihnea C.; Baum, Joel A. C. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 2, pp. 393-412

We investigate the epistemology of trust in social networks. We posit trust as a special epistemic state that depends on actors' beliefs about each others' beliefs as well as about states of the world. It offers new ideas and tools for representing the core elements of trust both within dyads...

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Product Differentiation and Commonality in Design: Balancing Revenue and Cost Drivers

Desai, Preyas; Kekre, Sunder; Radhakrishnan, Suresh; … - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 37-51

Product design decisions substantially affect the cost and revenue drivers. A design configuration with commonality can … lower manufacturing cost. However, such a design may hinder the ability to extract price premiums through product … design configurations: unique, premium-common, and basic-common. Our model considers two distinct segments of consumers. Some …

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