Commentary: Environmental Analysis and Decisionmaking Processes

Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Systems Analysis and Management Decisionmaking *t Systems Analysis and Management Decisionmaking Systems Analysis and Management Decisionmaking

Commentary on industrial processes.

A brief commentary on the three papers presented in the session on 'industrial processes' is presented. In particular, emphasis is placed on the factors considered to be crucial for an industrial process, namely: catalyst activity, the selectivity of the overall catalysed reaction and the lifetime over which the performance is observed. Control of selectivity is viewed as being most important, ...

response articles: micro and macro analysis

the present study reports an analysis of response articles in four different disciplines in the social sciences, i.e., linguistics, english for specific purposes (esp), accounting, and psychology. the study has three phases: micro analysis, macro analysis, and e-mail interview. the results of the micro analysis indicate that a three-level linguistic pattern is used by the writers in order to cr...

Medicaid Consumers and Informed Decisionmaking

In 2006, Florida's Medicaid reform required some Medicaid consumers to enroll in health plans that differed in terms of cost-sharing requirements and benefit limitations. In focus groups we found enthusiasm among Medicaid consumers for having choices among health plans; however, enthusiasm did not translate into comparison shopping for health plans. Survey findings suggested that Medicaid consu...

Judicial Decisionmaking and Litigation Expenditure

Recent years have borne witness to a striking increase in expenditures on legal services.’ Various critics of the U.S. legal system have accordingly argued that amounts currently spent on or in anticipation of disputes are socially excessive, and several writers have attempted to address the issue through economic analysis.’ Much of the economic literature has centered on the choice between lit...