Employers have increasingly questioned the gap between theory and practice in marketing education as it has a large effect on graduating students in the employment market. This problem is especially acute in Egypt, where the education system has not emphasized the development of critical...

Sarkar and Zangwill (S-Z, [Sarkar, D., W. I. Zangwill. 1991. Variance effects in cyclic production systems. Management Sci. 37(4, April) 444--453.]) have shown that in the presence of variance, setup and processing time reductions can have "detrimental" effects on the work-in-process (WIP)...

In the early 1990s, research began to show that the Japanese production theory, which espouses reduction of machine setup time as a sure way to improve production performance, may be limited. Specifically, it was found that reduction in mean setup times without any change in variance can,...