This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...

Water managers increasingly are faced with the challenge of building public or stakeholder support for resource management strategies. Building support requires raising stakeholder awareness of resource problems and understanding about the consequences of different policy options. One approach that can help managers communicate with stakeholders is system dynamics modeling. Used interactively i...

Processing distributed transactions hinges on enforcing atomicity and durability: resource man-agers participating in a transaction must agree on its outcome and the transaction updates must bepermanent. We introduce the log service abstraction, which gathers resource managers’ votes tocommit or abort a transaction and their updates, and outputs the transaction’s outcome. Updates ar...

abstract background: while nursing workload is a worldwide challenge, less attention has been given to the determining factors. understanding these factors is important and could help nursing managers to provide suitable working environment and to manage the adverse outcomes of nursing workload. the aim of this study was to discover nurses’ experiences of determinant factors of their workload. ...

Enterprise business services are often deployed over complex environments, managed by multiple service-management products. For instance, a business service may be configured as a three-tier environment with multiple services that run on different resource domains and span one or more tiers, and comprising service-management products such as workload managers, business resiliency managers, and ...

Requirements engineering for complex systems in resource-constrained environments produces an intricate set of dependencies. Finding ways to feasibly attain those requirements while adhering to resource limits can be extremely challenging. Here, we describe an approach that helps decisionmakers better explore this complex maze of data. The approach rests upon a combination of existing technolog...

THIS PAPER OFFERS ten common sense principles that will help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules, and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication, and manage conflict.