Abstract Cybervetting is the widespread practice of employers culling information from social media and/or other internet sources to screen and select job candidates. Research evaluating online screening still in its infancy; that which exists often assumes it offers value utility as long they can avoid discrimination claims. Given increasing prevalence cybervetting, extremely important probe c...

The northern tuna stocks in the Pacific have specific characteristics: long-term large variability of the total biomass, sparse stock-recruitment relationship, and no obvious indication of recruitment overfishing even though the spawning stock biomass sometime fell into in a very low level. In contrast, southern stocks in the Pacific have one way decreasing trends in shorter exploitation histor...

This paper assesses the importance of intellectual property (IP) protection for innovation in the context of a model of the industry dynamics in which business niches can be monopolized by the holders of valuable IP. Successfully developed innovations add to the stock of valuable IP but also detract from it by turning some older IP invaluable. IP may also turn invaluable as a result of imitatio...

In this paper, we examine a discrete-time, periodic-review production environment that assembles several hundred items and that possesses limited, perhaps random production capacity. The demand for a large subset of these items is highly erratic and extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict accurately. Consequently, a coordinated production-inventory strategy, such as the No B/C Strate...