Managerial Task Assignment and Promotions

A Theory of Consumer Promotions: Managerial Implications

Manufacturers are not necessarily in the "prisoner's dilemma" with their promotional spending. A small share brand may be made better off by promoting even if its behavior triggers a promotional response from larger share conpetitors. Given the seeming inevitability of promotional activity, we consider the management of promotional expenditures across a product line. A manufacturer with two bra...

Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms tends to be asymmetric. This sorting outcome determines both the goods market structure at single locatio...

Hybrid Meta-heuristic Algorithm for Task Assignment Problem

Task assignment problem (TAP) involves assigning a number of tasks to a number of processors in distributed computing systems and its objective is to minimize the sum of the total execution and communication costs, subject to all of the resource constraints. TAP is a combinatorial optimization problem and NP-complete. This paper proposes a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for solving TAP in a ...

Task Assignment with Unknown Duration

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