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Autor:
Larry P. Ritzman, M. Hossein Safizadeh
Publikováno v:
Production and Operations Management. 8:374-392
We examine how process choice links with design decisions about capital and human resources. Our analysis confirms empirically most expected differences between process- and product-focused plants for these decisions. What is unexpected is how top-pe
Publikováno v:
Strategic Management Journal. 29:79-91
We investigate sourcing decisions related to the back-office operations of 108 processes used by financial services companies. Guided by the arguments of transaction cost economics and the resource-based and knowledge-based view of organizations, we
Publikováno v:
Decision Sciences. 37:149-175
Developing a better understanding of the impact of uncertainty on process performance has been recognized as an important research opportunity in service design (Hill, et al., 2002). Within this general research stream, our study focuses on the quest
An empirical analysis of financial services processes with a front-office or back-office orientation
Publikováno v:
Journal of Operations Management. 21:557-576
In a departure from most other empirical studies of service organizations, this study employs a lower-level unit of analysis and explores service processes with front-office or back-office orientations. Moreover, unlike past studies, no front-office
Autor:
Larry P. Ritzman, M. Hossein Safizadeh
Publikováno v:
Journal of Operations Management. 15:389-403
This study investigates how process choice relates to production planning and inventory control decisions. We empirically examine the validity of deductively derived patterns about these types of decisions. More importantly, we look for normative ins
Publikováno v:
Information Systems Management. 14:23-28
Customer-targeted systems represent a logical next step in the evolution of decision support systems (DSSs), but they have not proliferated because of organizational concerns regarding usage and satisfaction. A six-month study of an interactive telep
Autor:
David R. McKenna, M. Hossein Safizadeh
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Operational Research. 92:54-62
Guidelines in the form of scatter diagrams can be valuable and helpful in facilities layout decisions. This paper demonstrates that a direct application of non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to layout problems can conveniently provi
Publikováno v:
Management Science. 42(11):1576-1591
Process choice, a major part of operations strategy, is a key decision that links operations to business strategy. Hayes and Wheelwright, among others, argue that the emphasis given to product customization and other competitive priorities should agr
The effect of sociopolitical instability on the flow of different types of foreign direct investment
Autor:
Kamal Fatehi, M. Hossein Safizadeh
Publikováno v:
Journal of Business Research. 31:65-73
We examine the effect of sociopolitical instability on the flow of U.S. manufacturing, mining, and petroleum foreign direct investment in 14 developing countries for the years 1950–1982. The analysis shows that sociopolitical instability does not h
Autor:
D. C. Murphy, M. Hossein Safizadeh
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Production Research. 30:2921-2939
This study examines the relationship between the introduction of new products and R&D process and product expenditures of 15 industries. The objective is to determine the degree to which product and process R&D expenditures, uniquely or jointly, cont