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A Framework for a Grounded Theory of Corporate Policy
Authors: Segev Eli 
Published: October 2008

A framework is presented for developing a theory of corporate policy, based on a fairly exhaustive survey of case studies used in capstone courses in strategy and policy in AACSB accredited master's programs in schools of business administration in the US. The main variables relevant to corporate policy were identified and grouped into eight meta-variables: strategy, strategic actions, organizational characteristics, environment, strategic process, organizational design, strategic actors, and organizational performance. I propose a framework for strategic theory: A strategy is the actions taken to match an organization with its environment. The strategy is formulated and implemented by a process and an organizational design in which various actors take part. Strategic match results in high performance. This is the first step in generating a theory from data, to be followed by generating propositions.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Bliss, Elizabeth 1985, Data Processing Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 254 pages, $32.00—reviewed by Susan Athey Voss, C. A., editor, 1987, Just-in-Time Manufacture: International Trends in Manufacturing Technology, Springer Verlag, New York, 398 pp., $79.00—reviewed by Danny Samson Bhatnagar, S. K. 1986, Network Analysis Techniques, Halsted Press (John Wiley and Sons), New York, 264 pp., $24.95—reviewed by Edward C. Rosenthal Walsh, L.; Wurster, R.; and Kimber, R. J., editors, 1986, Quality Management Handbook, ASQC Quality Press and Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 997 + xii pp., $75.00—reviewed by Rick L. Edgeman
20/30 Hindsight: But Routine Army Procurements ARE Policy Decisions
Authors: Chamberlain Robert G. , Fox George 
Published: October 2008

Usually, it is much cheaper to stockpile factories to make Army materiel than to stockpile the materiel itself. We were that close to getting the Army's routine procurement accounting system to show the trade-off on every report. What could we have done differently, so that billions of dollars would be spent more effectively? “Hindsight,” they say, “is always 20/20.” I am not convinced. What can you learn from our story besides what we point out below? For that matter, what can we all learn from your story? Not a thing, unless you tell it. Do you have the self-confidence to share a lesson from the School of Hard Knocks? If so, please do!—Robert G. Chamberlain
Misapplications Reviews: Strange Postures
Authors: Machol Robert E. 
Published: October 2008

The following “misapplication” occurred in a project in which I was involved some 40 years ago. I want to tell about it now not only because of its intrinsic interest, but also because it illustrates how much the world has changed in these 40 years. At that time hardly anybody had heard the words operations research or management science (or systems engineering or systems analysis), and very few of the people working on this project had. More importantly, almost nobody understood certain ways of looking at the world, and in particular looking at problems, that now seem perfectly obvious to all of us. After World War II, the newly formed US Air Force decided to worry about a gadget that had been called the V-2 during World War II and was then called the ballistic missile.
Management Science Roundup
Authors: Bucatinsky Julio 
Published: October 2008

In the first part several comments by Peter Drucker are presented. Peter Drucker said in 1958 that management science was in danger of becoming a management gadget bag of techniques for the efficiency expert. This danger existed because of the practitioners' emphasis on technique rather than on problem definition. According to Drucker, the focus of much of the work in management science has been not on such questions as what is the business enterprise, what is managing, what do the two do and what do the two need, but rather the focus has been on “Where can I apply my beautiful gimmick.” “The emphasis has been on the hammer, rather than on driving in the nail, let alone on building the house.” The regular part of the column, In this issue, presents: —“What do you think?—JB”; —“Editorial notes”; —“Inventory control for the District of Columbia—Siedman”; —“Management science at the National Bureau of Standards—Suzuki”; —“NSF seeks proposals for research conferences—Renirie”; —“Funds allocation in a corporate trust department—Chang”; —“Profit planning model for a commercial bank—Wisz”; —“Syborn's planning model—Mitchell”; —“Support for research in the mathematical sciences—JB”; —“Center for Future Research established at USC—JB”; —“Research fellowships in OR/MS at the International Center for Management Sciences, University of Louvain—JB”; —“Seen Elsewhere: (1) Technological Progress Function. A New Technique for Forecasting, (2) Forecasting Inventory Requirements in a Large Scale Department Store Setting, (3) Technical Forecasting at National Level in Japan (4) Applications of a Model Used in Calculating the Mental Load of Workers in Industry, (5) Mathematical Models for Manpower and Personnel Planning, (6) A Production Management Operating System Simulation, and (7) A Management Coach Concept for Management Development”; —“Bulletin Board: (1) TIMS meetings, (2) Other meetings/symposia, (3) Personal notes, (4) Notices and (5) Errata”; —“Deadline for future issues of INTERFACES”.
Open Letter to TIMS Members
Authors: Ackoff Russell L. 
Published: October 2008

The memorandum to you of April 20, 1972, from Peter V. Norden and Sidney W. Hess on “Change of Slate for TIMS 1972 Election” stated, “Russell L. Ackoff, nominated as a candidate for the Office of President Elect of TIMS for the 1972–73 term … has withdrawn his candidacy for personal reasons.” This is not true. But I can understand the reasons for explaining my withdrawal in this way. It puts the matter to rest. I withdrew because the officers of TIMS would not permit circulation of my platform for office with the ballot. Reproduced below is the relevant letter which I sent to Peter Norden after the Nominating Committee, which he chaired, was kind enough to nominate me.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Balachandran, Sarojini 1987, Decision Making—An Information Sourcebook, Oryx Press, Phoenix, Arizona, 208 pp., $49.50—reviewed by Benjamin Lev Daduna, Joachim R. and Wren, Anthony, eds. 1988, Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, Springer-Verlag, Berlin; New York, 335 pp., $33.70—reviewed by Lawrence Bodin Das, T. K. 1986, The Subjective Side of Strategy Making, Prager, New York, 269 pp., $36.95—reviewed by Allen C. Bluedorn Nicholson, Michael 1989, Formal Theories in International Relations, Cambridge, University Press, Cambridge, England, 256 pp., $49.50—reviewed by Edward C. Rosenthal Pirow, P. C.; Duffy, N. M.; and Ford, J. C., eds. 1988, Information Systems in Practice and Theory, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, xi + 503 pp., $105.25—reviewed by Jeanne W. Ross Dogramaci, Ali and Fare, Rolf, eds. 1988, Applications of Modern Production Theory: Efficiency and Productivity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 288 pp., $59.95—reviewed by Thomas R. Gulledge, Jr.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Stevenson, William J. 1989, Introduction to Management Science, Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 844 + xvii pp., $39.50—reviewed by Ruth A. Maurer Baird, Bruce F. 1989, Managerial Decisions under Uncertainty, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 530 pp., $44.95—reviewed by David Chender Chou Walk, Manfred 1989, Theory of Duality in Mathematical Programming, Springer-Verlag, New York, 178 pp., $49.00—reviewed by Eric S. Theise Pervozvanskii, Anatolii A. and Gaitsgori, Vladimir G. 1988, Theory of Suboptimal Decisions: Decomposition and Aggregation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 384 + xiii pp., $99.00—reviewed by Eugene Veklerov Ethier, Stewart N. and Kurtz, Thomas G. 1986, Markov Processes: Characterization and Convergence, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, $47.50—reviewed by Ralph L. Disney Chapman, C. B.; Cooper, D. F.; Page, M. J. with contributions from J. B. Clark, M. A. M. Ezzmael; K. Hilton; C. Mar-Molinero; and S. C. Ward 1988, Management for Engineers, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 654 pp., $39.95—reviewed by Holger Hinz
An Introduction to Neural Networks and a Comparison with Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Authors: Zahedi Fatemeh 
Published: October 2008

Artificial intelligence (including expert systems) (AI/ES) and neural networks (NN) provide methods for formalizing qualitative aspects of business systems. They complement quantitative methods in solving business problems. While AI and NN have the common goal of simulating human intelligence, they use different methods. AI/ES assumes the brain is a black box and imitates the human reasoning process. It processes knowledge sequentially, represents it explicitly, and mostly uses deductive reasoning. Learning takes place outside the system. NN treats the brain as a white box and imitates its structure and function, using a parallel approach to simulate human intelligence. It represents knowledge implicitly within its structure and applies inductive reasoning to process knowledge. Learning takes place within the system. Both AI/ES and NN have great potential to solve qualitative problems, and their integration could provide a powerful tool for dealing with problems outside the domain of current problem-solving methods.
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Kannan, Ravi and Pulleyblank, W. R., eds. 1990, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, University of Waterloo Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 535 pp., $60.00—reviewed by Sunil Chopra and Eitan Zemel Nakajima, Seiichi 1989, TPM Development Program, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 435 pp., $85.00—reviewed by Binshan Lin Starfield, Anthony M.; Smith, Karl A.; and Bleloch, Andrew L. 1990, How to Model It—Problem Solving for the Computer Age, McGraw Hill, New York, 206 pp., $20.00—reviewed by Chetan Sankar Harvey, Andrew C. 1990, Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman Filter, Cambridge University Press, New York, 554 + xvi pp., $69.50—reviewed by Irene M. Hammerbacher Rapoport, Amnon 1990, Experimental Studies of Interactive Decisions, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 436 pp., $119.00—reviewed by Jeffrey Keisler Brown, Donald E. and White, Chelsea C., III, eds. 1990, Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Problem-Solving Strategies, Kluwer Academic, Boston, 505 pp., $89.95—reviewed by Stephen H. Kaisler Jain, R. K. and Triandis, H. C. 1990, Management of Research and Development, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 268 + xix pp., $44.95—reviewed by R. Balachandra March, James G. 1989, Decisions and Organizations, Basil Blackwell, New York, 458 pp., $24.95—reviewed by T. K. Das Dimitriou, Harry T., ed. 1990, Transport Planning for Third World Cities, Routledge, London, UK, 432 pp., $57.50—reviewed by Gary R. Waissi Ahn, B.-H., ed. 1990, Asian-Pacific Operations Research, APORS '88: New Challenges for OR/MS in the Asian-Pacific Region, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 736 pp., $153.75—reviewed by Paul Gray
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Rosenhead, Jonathan, ed. 1989, Rational Analysis for a Problematic World: Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty, and Conflict, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 386 pp., $47.95—reviewed by Hugh J. Miser West, Mike and Harrison, Jeff 1989, Bayesian Forecasting and Dynamic Models, Springer-Verlag, New York, 704 + xxi pp., $56.00—reviewed by Peter Lenk Suzue, Toshio and Kohdate, Akira 1990, Variety Reduction Program: A Production Strategy for Product Diversification, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 164 pp., $59.95—reviewed by B. R. Feiring Ahmadian, Ahmad; Affifi, Rasoul; and Chandler, William 1990, Readings in Production and Operations Management, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, London, Sydney, Toronto, 388 pp., $15.00—reviewed by Germaine H. Saad McArthur, Charles W. 1990, Operations Analysis in the US Army Eighth Air Force in World War II, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, xxiv + 349 pp., $81.00 ($49.00 to members)—reviewed by Joseph F. McCloskey, Professor Emeritus Robson, Ross E., ed. 1990, The Quality and Productivity Equation: American Corporate Strategies for the 1990's, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 338 + xx pp., $29.95—reviewed by Darrell Radson Checkland, Peter and Scholes, Jim 1990, Soft Systems Methodology in Action, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 329 pp., $49.95—reviewed by Susan A. Sherer
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Chikan, Attila, ed. 1990, Inventory Models, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 418 pp., $189.00—reviewed by Ephrem Eyob Karian, Zaven A. and Dudewicz, Edward J. 1990, Modern Statistical Systems and GPSS Simulation: The First Course, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 464 pp., $56.95—reviewed by Franklin E. Grange Kemper, Robert E. and Yehudai, Joseph 1991, Experiencing Operations Management: A Walk-Through, PWS-Kent Publishing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 360 pp., $27.00—reviewed by A. D. Amar
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Patridge, Derek and Wilks, Yorick, eds. 1990, The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: A Sourcebook, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 498 pp., $22.95—reviewed by JaeHwa Choi Price, Frank 1990, Right Every Time: Using the Deming Approach, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 216 pp., $59.75—reviewed by Bala Ram Broadwell, Martin M. 1990, The New Supervisor, fourth edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 256 pp., $16.75—reviewed by John Whittaker Chacko, George K. 1991, Decision-Making under Uncertainty: An Applied Statistics Approach, Praeger Publishers, New York, 272 pp., $47.95—reviewed by John R. Schuyler Jain, Raj 1991, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation and Modeling, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 720 pp. $49.95—reviewed by Per Nikolaj D. Bukh Brant, Bob 1991, Build Your Own Macintosh and Save a Bundle, Windcrest Books, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, 221 pp., $17.95—reviewed by Stephen H. Kaisler Akao, Yoji, ed. 1990, Quality Function Deployment: Integrating Customer Requirements into Production Design, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 400 pp., $75.00—reviewed by Wan S. Shin McCann, John M. and Gallagher, John P. 1990, Expert Systems for Scanner Data Environments, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 224 pp., $55.00—reviewed by Frederick B. Buoni
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Boynton, Andrew C. and Zmud, Robert W. 1990, Management Information Systems: Readings and Cases, A Managerial Perspective, Scott Foresman, Glenview, Illinois, 511 pp., $16.00—reviewed by Chetan S. Sankar Trajtenberg, Manuel 1990, Economic Analysis of Product Innovation: The Case of CT Scanners, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 236 pp., $30.00—reviewed by Dennis J. Hanseman
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Glover, F.; Klingman, D.; and Phillips, N. V. 1992, Network Models in Optimization and Their Applications in Practice, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 284 pp., $54.95—reviewed by Harvey J. Greenberg Murty, K. G. Network Programming, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1992, 623 pp., $61.33—reviewed by Gary R. Waissi Hoekstra, Sjoerd and Romme, Jac, eds. 1992, Integral Logistic Sfructures, Developing Customer-Oriented Goods Flow, Industrial Press, New York, 164 pp., $49.95—reviewed by Per Nikolaj D. Bukh Perigord, Michel 1990, Achieving Total Quality Management: A Program for Action, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 379 pp., $45.00—reviewed by Douglas A. Samuelson Dyer, Robert F. and Forman, Ernest H. 1991, An Analytic Approach to Marketing Decisions, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 368 pages, $39.00—reviewed by Roger Alan Pick
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Keeney, Ralph L. 1992, Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 406 pp., $35.00—reviewed by John R. Schuyler Weiss, Joseph W. and Wysocki, Robert K. 1992, Five-Phase Project Management: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 121 + xiii pp., $19.50—reviewed by Dennis E. Kroll Louis, Raymond S. 1992, How to Implement Kanban for American Industry, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Norwalk, Connecticut, 116 pp., $39.95—reviewed by Richard Y. K. Fung Landvater, Darryl V. 1993, World Class Production and Inventory Management, Oliver Wight Publications, Essex Junction, Vermont, 272 pp., $42.50—reviewed by Ephrem Eyob Sherbrooke, Craig C. 1992, Optimal Inventory Modeling of Systems, Multi-Echelon Techniques, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 274 pp., $59.95—reviewed by Steve New Lund, D. and Øksendal, B., eds. 1991, Stochastic Models and Option Values: Applications to Resources, Environment, and Investment Problems, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 301 pp., $69.00—reviewed by John A. Barnes
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Askin, Ronald G. and Standridge, Charles R. 1993, Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 461 pp., $65.95—reviewed by Ramón Rodríguez Cottle, R. W.; Pang, J.; and Stone, R. E. 1992, The Linear Complementarity Problem, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 762 pp., $59.95—reviewed by Samer Takriti Zangwill, Willard I. 1993, Lightning Strategies for Innovation: How the World's Best Firms Create New Products, Lexington Books, MacMillan, New York, 359 pp. $24.95—reviewed by Ephrem Eyob
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Vollmann, Thomas E.; Berry, William L.; and Whybark, Clay D., eds. 1992, Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, third edition, Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 864 pp., $54.95—reviewed by Per Nikolaj D. Bukh Shedlar, Gerald S. 1993, Regenerative Stochastic Simulation, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 401 pp., $59.95—reviewed by Alan G. Kalton Chacko, George K. 1993, Operations Research/Management Science: Case Studies in Decision Making Under Structured Uncertainty, McGraw-Hill, New York, 396 pp., $49.95—reviewed by Augustine O. Esogbue Waters, C. D. J. 1992, Inventory Control and Management, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 364 pp., $54.95—reviewed by Bruce R. Feiring Fourer, R.; Gay, M. G.; and Kernighan, B. W. 1993, AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming, The Scientific Press, South San Francisco, California, 351 pp., $52.50—reviewed by Samer Takriti McNeese, William H. and Klein, Robert A., eds. 1991, Statistical Methods for the Process Industries, Marcel Dekker, New York, 512 + xvi pp., $55.00—reviewed by Claude R. Superville Geweke, John, ed. 1992, Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty: New Models and Empirical Findings, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 260 pp., $111.00—reviewed by Jayavel Sounderpandian Flood, Robert Louis 1993, Beyond TQM, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 303 pp., $39.95—reviewed by Stanley J. Stough Zahedi, Fatemah 1993, Intelligent Systems for Business: Expert Systems with Neural Networks, Wadsworth, Florence, Kentucky, 658 pp., $38.00—reviewed by Sean B. Eom Buckland, Michael 1991, Information and Information Systems, Praeger Publishers, New York, 248 pp., $16.95—reviewed by Sean B. Eom
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Raghavan, T. E. S.; Ferguson, T. S.; Parthasarathy, T.; and Zrieze, O. J., eds. 1991, Stochastic Games and Related Topics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, x + 233pp., $94.00—reviewed by Marco LiCalzi Graves, S. C.; Rinnooy Kan, A. H. G.; and Zipkin, P. H., eds. 1993, Logistics of Production and Inventory, North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 760 pp., $165.00—reviewed by Belarmino Adenso-Díaz
Book Reviews
Authors: Lev Benjamin 
Published: October 2008

Whybark, D. Clay and Vastag, Gyula, eds. 1993, Global Manufacturing Practices, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 464 pp., $168.50—reviewed by Ram Rachamadugu Christopher, William F. and Thor, Carl G., eds. 1992, Handbook for Productivity Measurement and Improvement, Productivity Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1,344 pp., $90.00—reviewed by Per Nikolaj D. Bukh Bertsekas, Dimitri P. 1991, Linear Network Optimization Algorithms and Codes, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 359 pp., $42.50—reviewed by Yahia Zare Rust, Roland T.; Zahorik, Anthony J.; and Keiningham, Timothy L. 1994, Return on Quality: Measuring the Financial Impact of Your Company's Quest for Quality, Probus Publishing Company, Chicago, 225 pp., $27.50—reviewed by Mark A. Vonderembse Bhat, U. Narayan and Basawa, Ishwar V., eds. 1992, Queueing and Related Models, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 348 pp., $89.00—reviewed by Y. Narahari Coffman, E. G., Jr.; Lenstra, J. K.; and Rinnooy Kan, A. H. G., eds. 1992, Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Vol. 3: Computing, North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 682 + xvi pp., $120.00—reviewed by Hari Titan Payne, J. W.; Bettman, J. R.; and Johnson, E. J. 1993, The Adaptive Decision Maker, Cambridge University Press, New York, 343 pp., $59.95—reviewed by Paula A. Dasilva
Editorial: Which Universities Contribute to the Practice Literature? The First Interfaces Ranking
Authors: Rothkopf Michael H. 
Published: October 2008

Organizations and professions get what they measure and reward. If we want educational programs to contribute to OR/MS practice, we have to figure out how to measure such contributions. The INFORMS Academic/Practitioner Interface Committee has discussed the possibility of ranking or rating academic programs on their contributions to OR/MS practice. Many difficulties stand in its way—difficulties in implementation and, especially, in defining the rating scale. How should a scale measure such factors as training students for practice, contributing to the practice literature, contributing to theory useful for practice, and conducting cooperative projects with industry? How should it combine such measures? Such overall rankings would necessarily be highly subjective and difficult to implement well. As editor of a publication focused on practice, I am interested in a more limited goal. I want a scale that measures one aspect of a university's contribution to practice: its contribution to the practice literature. I want deans who promulgate goals for their programs to have available a measure of such contributions. To encourage and reward such contributions, I want recognition for the programs that make them. To that end, I developed an index—the Interfaces index of contributions to the practice literature. Like all measurement schemes, it has limitations. Even so, when I applied it to the literature from 1988 to 1994, I obtained some interesting results and a ranking of universities. I plan to update the index and the rankings periodically.