Jean-François Audy, Sophie D’Amours and Mikael Rönnqvist 1 Doctoral Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CIRRELT, FORAC Research Consortium, Laval University, CANADA, [email protected] Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CIRRELT, FORAC Research Consortium, Laval University, CANADA, [email protected] 3 Professor, Department of Finance and Managemen...

I remember a US colleague commenting, in the mid 1980s, on the predilection of deans and other university managers for assessing academic statisticians’ performance in terms of the numbers of papers they published. The managers, he said, “don’t have many skills, but they can count.” It’s not clear whether the management science of assessing research performance in universities has advanced grea...

A lot of effort has been made in the last decades to reveal, which hotel attributes guest care about. Due to the high costs that are typically involved with investments in the hotel industry, it makes a lot of sense to study, which product components the travellers appreciate. This study reveals that hotel attribute research turns out to be a wide and extremely heterogeneous field of research. ...

Key positions: Operations Analyst, U.S. Army, Ft. Monroe, Virginia (1955–56); Assistant Professor of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1957–60); Associate Professor of Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University (1960–62); Associate Professor of Operations Research and Management, Sloan School, M.I.T. (1962– 67); Professor of Operations Research and...

The law of information platforms has blurred numerous doctrinal categories within the law and has begun to assimilate a widening array of nonlegal disciplines.2 Communications law alone has become “so vast that fully to comprehend it would require an almost universal knowledge ranging from” engineering, economics, and management science “to the niceties of the legislative, judicial, and adminis...

Although "valuing diversity" has become a watchword, field research on the impact of a culturally diverse workforce on organizational performance has not been forthcoming. Invoking a resource-based framework, in this study I examined the relationships among cultural (racial) diversity, business strategy, and firm performance in the banking industry. Racial diversity interacted with business str...

Consultants are an integral component of development aid. Their involvement is based on an assumption of the transferability of knowledge to clients and beneficiaries. However this role, its efficacy and the concept of knowledge transfer have all been questioned. While research has shown interest in northern development consultants in recent years, detailed processes and practices of southern c...

Software projects require a right mix of the software resources and the expertise to increase the chances of timely completion. The interface for the resource allocation to the software projects is provided by the project factors. The identification of the comprehensive project factors for the diversified nature of projects in itself is an open research area. This paper is based on a quantitati...

Knowledge management in general, and knowledge creation in particular, gives organizations a competitive advantage in the knowledge era. Although there is a lack of deliberate knowledge management and creation efforts in modern Ethiopia, the country possesses 1,700-year old indigenous practices of knowledge creation. This research in progress seeks to explore the extent to which indigenous know...

We examine the historical relation of logistics to strategy in the NZ dairy industry, with special emphasis on OR/MS applications. We review the various ways in which efficiency has been realized in logistics in the industry (mostly through recourse to OR/MS). We especially dwell on how the structure (e.g., operating mechanisms) of the NZ dairy industry has supported and/or hindered the focus o...