Cautions that, taken to its logical extreme, economic theory ignores the importance of implementation, implies lack of choice in organization decision making, and makes the organization a nonentity. Outlines the fundamental differences between behavioral and economic approaches to business policy. (63 references) (MLF)

An inventory replenishment policy is developed for a deteriorating item and price-dependent demand. The rate of deterioration is taken to be time-proportional and the time to deterioration is assumed to follow a two-parameter Weibull distribution. A power law form of the price dependence of demand is considered. The model is solved analytically…

The general question addressed is what technology leadership attributes make what kind of difference in the success of various technology-related programs. First, this article has integrated the prescriptive literature on technology leadership with the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) and then has…

This study is the fourth in a series of studies conducted by the American Association of School Administrators on the impact of the economic downturn on schools. AASA launched the series in fall 2008 in response to state budget shortfalls, federal buy-outs and interventions, and a series of additional events characterizing a slowing, stagnant…

Describes a project designed to improve services to library users by solving, through application of operations research methods, a complex problem of delivery of library materials in an urban, multisystem library service region. (Author/PF)

A Child care administrator considering the choice of a computerized management information system suitable for the child care agency faces a formidable array of variables important to the selection. This article offers a framework to help in evaluating and comparing the different systems available. (Author)

This study attempts to determine which media-exposure models available today are the best. A survey of the literature of the last 20 years is used to provide the basis for assessment of the state of the art of media planning and to draw distinctions between the implicit, naive, subjective, and sophisticated media-exposure models. Discussion of the…

Discusses the need for application of research findings. (RC)

Developed and demonstrated here is the design of interface systems for cost-effective communication of the user with the computerized operations research procedures. The concentration is in the area of interfacing methods for implementing the optimization techniques of mathematical programing. Emphasis is given to flexibility of accessing the…

ASSOCIATIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO A DOCUMENT FILE ARE CONSIDERED AS A MEANS FOR IMPROVING RETRIEVAL. A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF A GENERALIZED MISMATCH MEASURE WAS CARRIED OUT AND IMPROVEMENTS IN RETRIEVAL RESULTING FROM PERFORMING ASSOCIATIVE REGRESSION ADJUSTMENTS ON DATA FILE WERE EXAMINED BOTH FROM THE THEORETICAL AND…

This bibliography contains citations of more than 700 studies concerned with the critical incident technique (a method of research based on identifying critical factors in human performance in a variety of situations and used to solve practical problems in industry, education, health, and community service). References cited have been indexed in…

This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature relating operations technology to organizational structure and offers a refined definition of operations technology that is intended to facilitate the comparison of different organizational types. The authors present a theoretical model that imposes consistency on the existing literature and…

This paper examines the contributions of Industrial Engineering and Management Science toward reduction in the cost of production and distribution of food. Food processing firms were requested to respond to a questionnaire which asked for examples of their use of various operations research tools and information on the number of operations…

This booklet is intended to serve as a directory of source materials in the field of operations research, rather than as a bibliography per se. As such, it is a survey of the major bibliographic tools, indexing services, and general information sources that are relevant to the field. Most entries have been annotated briefly to indicate the value…

ERIC abstracts on educational planning, announced in RIE through December 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "critical path method,""educational planning,""operations research," and "program budgeting." The following information is presented for each document: Author, title, place of publication, publisher,…