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  • Prevailing opinions about productivity performance and improvement

    Creator:
    Anaya-Sánchez, Carlos G.
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    The intent of this study was to survey opinions of producine managers and industrial engineers concerning several aspects of productivity. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire. The number of questionnaires administered was 540. Useful responses were 145 (27%). In addition to English, there were versions of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Engineering r1 Redacted for Privacy Dean of Graduate Date thesis is presented Typed by Linda S. Crooks for

  • A branch and bound algorithm applied to field office location

    Creator:
    Lovro, Daryl Stanley
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    This thesis develops a model for locating field offices for the Motor Vehicles Division of Oregon. The locations are determined by minimizing the total cost to the Public. This is reasonable because the Public finances the operation and the opening of the offices through tax dollars, and it bears the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . If a terminal solution (all Y.'s are 0 or 1) whose solution is less than all previous terminal nodes

  • An investigation of the influence of choice structure on decision making behavior

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    Dervitsiotis, Kostas N.
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    The behavior of individuals in decision making under risk was investigated using choice structures of greater complexity than the types examined in previous studies. The experiment performed consisted of two phases. In Phase I a basic utility function for money was derived for each subject using lotteries with two equally...
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    Dissertation
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    . Michael S. Inoue, and Messrs. Charles Devere and Samuel Seward for their assistance with parts of the

  • A study of strategic and tactical decision making procedures

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    Elsner, Brian Jerome
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    An extensive literature survey investigated methods and approaches for evaluating intangible economic factors at the strategic and tactical levels of managerial decision making. These sources provided: 1) the background for a theoretical decision making algorithm developed for comparing alternative economic proposals for effectiveness at the strategy levels, and 2) a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    delineation of organizational goals by the decision maker(s), since alternatives at every subordinate level

  • Productivity interfirm comparison : methodologies with a special application to the Northwest food processors

    Creator:
    Park, Tongkyu
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    Based on the premise that interfirm comparison can be an effective productivity improvement tool, productivity interfirm comparison (PIC) methods are examined in this research. The first part is an extensive literature review regarding the conventional interfirm comparison (IFC) scheme accepted widely in many countries outside the United States. Then, the...
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    Dissertation

  • Systems tableau : an integrated approach to systems theory

    Creator:
    Inoue, Michael Shigeru
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    Systems Tableau is suggested as a convenient tool for the integration of the three phases of systems theory: the synthesis of a model from the analysis of a system; the evaluation of the model; and the decision-making process for the design and control of the resulting system. From a basic...
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    a tableau - based computer program that will produce the dual network for Ford-Fulker son' s