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The 39th international conference of the EURO working group on operational research applied to health services: ORAHS 2013 special issue
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2015-09)The healthcare sector is facing major challenges worldwide in terms of higher demands for efficiency, quality and equity. Operational Research (OR) techniques offer valuable tools for improving the design and delivery of ... -
Accelerated learning of user profiles
(Informs, 2011-02)Websites typically provide several links on each page visited by a user. Whereas some of these links help users easily navigate the site, others are typically used to provide targeted recommendations based on the available ... -
Action research contextualizes DEA in a multi-organizational decision-making process
(Elsevier, 2012-06-01)The theory of participatory action research (PAR) grew out of the practice of problem-solving in groups and organization by involving the participation of all pertinent stakeholders in decision-making process through ... -
An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative
(2009)There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers ... -
Ambulance location for maximum survival
(Wiley, 2008-02)This article proposes new location models for emergency medical service stations. The models are generated by incorporating a survival function into existing covering models. A survival function is a monotonically decreasing ... -
The appreciative democratic voice of DEA: a case of faculty academic performance evaluation
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is in fact more than just being an instrument for measuring the relative efficiencies of a group of decision making units (DMU). DEA models are also means of expressing appreciative democratic ... -
Approximating vehicle dispatch probabilities for emergency service systems with location-specific service times and multiple units per location
(Informs, 2009-02)To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system, one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. ... -
Assessing consequences of component sharing across brands in the vertical product line in the automotive market
(Wiley, 2012-07)Component sharing may look great in the boardroom, but not in the showroom. Indeed, savings on R&D and production costs could be offset by a plunge in customer brand attractiveness. Combining experimental with econometric ... -
Assessment of patient classification in appointment system design
(Production and Operations Management Society, 2008-05)This paper investigates two approaches to patient classification: using patient classification only for sequencing patient appointments at the time of booking and using patient classification for both sequencing and ... -
Baked beats grilled: a calorie analysis of 18,000 menu items in fast food chain restaurants
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Fast food and chain restaurants often give the menu items descriptive names related to the production processes (e.g., baked, fried, grilled, glazed). Do these descriptions in a food’s name provide a useful indication of ... -
Build-to-order meets global sourcing: planning challenge for the auto industry
(Springer, 2011)Auto manufacturers today face many challenges: The industry is plagued with excess capacity that drives down prices, international competitors are seizing share at both ends of the market and consumers are well informed ... -
Building with bricks and mortar: the revenue impact of opening physical stores in a multichannel environment
(Elsevier, 2015-06)A crucial decision firms face today is which channels they should make available to customers for transactions. We assess the revenue impact of adding bricks-and-mortar stores to a firm's already existing repertoire of ... -
Cash flow news, discount rate news, and momentum
(Elsevier, 2016-11)We examine the effect of aggregate cash flow news and discount rate news on momentum returns. We find that momentum profits are higher following aggregate positive cash flow news, even in down markets or low sentiment ... -
Communicating forecasts: the simplicity of simulated experience
(Elsevier, 2015-08)It is unclear whether decision makers who receive forecasts expressed as probability distributions over outcomes understand the implications of this form of communication. We suggest a solution based on the fact that people ... -
Competitive implications of software open-sourcing
(Elsevier, 2012-12)This paper is concerned with the economic trade-offs associated with open-sourcing, the business strategy of releasing free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source ... -
Composing offer sets to maximize expected payoffs
(Digital Commons, 2016)Firms are increasingly using clickstream and transactional data to tailor product offerings to visitors at their site. Ecommerce websites have the opportunity, at each interaction, to offer multiple items (referred to as ... -
Computational comparison of five maximal covering models for locating ambulances
(Wiley, 2009-01)This article categorizes existing maximum coverage optimization models for locatingambulances based on whether the models incorporate uncertainty about (1) ambulanceavailability and (2) response times. Data from Edmonton, ... -
Conceptualizing a research paradigm for multi-objective modelling in supply chain management
(Wiley, 2015)The primary objective of this paper is to offer a particular research paradigm framework that takes into consideration ontological, epistemological, methodological and axiological assumptions for a more meaningful and ... -
Consideration for future consequences as an antecedent of transformational leadership behavior: The moderating effects of perceived dynamic work environment
(Elsevier, 2014-04-02)Based on construal level theory and trait activation theory, we examined the effect of consideration of future consequences (CFC) on transformational leadership behavior and leadership effectiveness, as well as the potential ... -
Consumer attitude metrics for guiding marketing mix decisions
(Informs, 2014-08)Marketing managers often use consumer attitude metrics such as awareness, consideration, and preference as performance indicators because they represent their brand's health and are readily connected to marketing activity. ...
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