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...

Organizations survive or disappear primarily thanks to the quality of management that leads them. Decision-making is not the only, but the basic function of management that contributes most to the success or failure of the organization.  e manager is the one who makes decisions and decision-making is the essence of planning. Planning is the fi rst and most important function of management as a...

Manufacturing simulation tools are used frequently to analyze proposed planning, scheduling, and control decisions that attempt to optimize some performance measure(s) for the shop. These shops exhibit a dynamic and complicated evolution caused by the concurrent flows of disparate parts following nonlinear process plans, machine failures, priority jobs, and variability in processing and transpo...

INTRODUCTION Shared governance is one of the most widely discussed and misunderstood topics in postsecondary education today. Lacking precise definition and often interpreted in ways that support special interests, it can have different meanings for different audiences. Some view it as a system of self-government in which policies, procedures and decision-making involve the entire organization....

Colonel Christopher P. Gibson is the current Director of Operations and Plans (G3) of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division. He is a highly-decorated veteran of the First Gulf War, NATO peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Operation Iraqi Freedom—where he commanded a battalion in Mosul. He was previously the Distinguished Honour Graduate of his Command and General Staff College class and holds ...

Conclusions | Future studies ofMTD could benefit from targetingpartner-assistedSSEs, increasingthenumberofSSEs togenerate more lesions submitted for telediagnosis, assessing the effect of dermatologists’ feedback between SSE rounds, and submitting lesion location photographs. The process of lesion selection decisionmaking using MTD or other lesion selection aids merits further investigation.

The revitalisation of the Australian Manufacturing Industry depends on the introduction of new techniques of manufacture. Decisions concerning the implementation of new techniques of flexible manufacturing , including robotics, are discussed in regard to the effects on the work-force The discussion extends to an examination of the participative role of trade unions in the decisionmaking process...

This paper explores the use of intranet-technology to support knowledge intensive decisionmaking in a technical service delivery process of a major oilfield services company. Our findings show that creating, mobilizing, and exchanging knowledge through an intranet-technology based system delivers forms of benefits to both the organization and its clients, and understanding what organizational k...