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Model Choice in Production---Optimization?

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  • Geoff Lockett

    (Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Booth Street West, Manchester M15 6PB, England)

  • Eileen Polding

    (Department of Business and Administration, Salford University, Salford M5 4WT, England)

Abstract

MS/OR models have a chequered history, and the literature and applications only partially overlap. Reasons for this may be the lack of preparation for choosing a model and an inability to manage organizational change, rather than the model development. In the production scheduling case presented here, four separate divisions within one company make similar products, but the models they developed were radically different. The major influences were their differing payment systems.

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  • Geoff Lockett & Eileen Polding, 1983. "Model Choice in Production---Optimization?," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 13(5), pages 94-100, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:13:y:1983:i:5:p:94-100
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.13.5.94
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