The purpose of this paper is to speculate on how the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) formula was developed.
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The purpose of this paper is to speculate on how the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) formula was developed.
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The paper presents a literature review and analysis.
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Ford Whitman Harris's contribution to the EOQ formula is significantly original.
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Origins of work and questions of plagiarism can be ambiguous. The speculations here illustrate some of the ambiguities inherent in trying to use citations to give appropriate credit for ideas. They also help scholars understand the creative process and perhaps to teach in a way that enhances the creativity of students.
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The paper specifies the link between Lord Kelvin and Ford Whitman Harris.
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The purchasing function is growing in importance in today's industrial economy. In many purchasing situations there are a number of conflicting considerations that influence the…
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The purchasing function is growing in importance in today's industrial economy. In many purchasing situations there are a number of conflicting considerations that influence the final purchasing decision. The professional purchasing person must make profitable buying decisions under these circumstances. The single item purchase lot sizing literature in the past has served as the foundation for developing and studying the requirements planning based models and techniques. The purchasing manager's methods for making quantity (lot size) decisions are examined. Significant literature on the subject is classified and a taxonomy provided. Variations within the purchase lot sizing literature are discussed. Purchase lot sizing literature has important limitations by focusing exclusively on lot sizing as the relevant criterion for making economic order size decisions. A logical extension would be to include, the economic performance of alternative lot size procedures in a capacitated Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) environment. Another extension should consider the economics of jointly ordering from one vendor.
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The way organizational actors use language to think about and communicate their organizational experiences is central to how organizational actors enact organizational paradox…
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The way organizational actors use language to think about and communicate their organizational experiences is central to how organizational actors enact organizational paradox. However, most inquiries into the role of language in the organizational paradox literature has focused on specific components of language (e.g., discourse), without attention to the complex, multi-level linguistic system that is interconnected to organizational processes. In this chapter, we expand our knowledge of the role of language by integrating paradox research with research from the linguistics discipline. We identify a series of linguistic tensions (i.e., generalizability-specificity, universalism-particularism, and explicitness-implicitness) that are nested within organizational paradoxes. In the process, we reveal how the organizing paradox of control and autonomy is interconnected to other paradoxes (i.e., performing, learning, and belonging) through the instantiation of linguistic paradoxes. We discuss the implications of our findings for research on paradox and language.
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Orly Levy, Maury A. Peiperl and Karsten Jonsen
Cosmopolitanism represents a complex, multilevel, multilayer phenomenon manifested in a variety of social spheres, including moral, political, social, and cultural. Yet, despite…
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Cosmopolitanism represents a complex, multilevel, multilayer phenomenon manifested in a variety of social spheres, including moral, political, social, and cultural. Yet, despite its prominence in other disciplines, cosmopolitanism has received relatively scant attention in international management research. Furthermore, the understanding of cosmopolitanism as an ever-present social condition in which individuals are embedded lags significantly behind.
In this chapter, we develop a conceptual framework for cosmopolitanism as an individual-level phenomenon situated at the intersection of the moral, political, and sociocultural perspectives. The framework explicates the interrelations between macrolevel dynamics and individual experiences in a globalized world. We conceptualize cosmopolitanism as an individual disposition manifested and enacted through identities, attitudes, and practices. We also highlight the diversity of individuals who can be considered cosmopolitans, including those who may not possess the classic cosmopolitan CV. Finally, the chapter explores the implications of cosmopolitanism for global organizations and global leadership.
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The growing concern over the possibility of lead elimination from electronics solders has prompted the initiation of several studies by various groups. The same basic approach is…
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The growing concern over the possibility of lead elimination from electronics solders has prompted the initiation of several studies by various groups. The same basic approach is a feature of most of these efforts — a programme of alloy development aimed at finding a new alloy which may substitute for most, if not all, applications for tin‐lead. Many factors must be considered in such an approach and these are outlined in the present paper, along with some consideration of the alloys available. An alternative approach of process adaptation is also presented.
Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet and Eric Grémont
The paper examines the degree of interlocking directorships across the major Eurozone economies. It uses the major stock market indices in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands…
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The paper examines the degree of interlocking directorships across the major Eurozone economies. It uses the major stock market indices in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium to identify the top of the corporate elite in each country. For the period of 2005–2008, it studies transnational links between European companies. The paper draws attention to a number of features of these interlocks. Firstly transnational interlocks remain relatively low but secondly they do vary considerably. An important issue here is the degree of bilateral integration which is occurring between some countries within the Eurozone, for example France and Belgium, and the degree to which other countries, most notably, Italy are increasingly disconnected, whilst the two most powerful economies, France and Germany, are very weakly connected. This variability reflects a series of structural divides between big business in the Eurozone that makes it difficult for this corporate elites to be cohesive at the European level.
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This chapter seeks to make sense of the current anarchical drift of world politics, in which exclusionary ethnonationalisms, intense technological competition and the revival of…
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This chapter seeks to make sense of the current anarchical drift of world politics, in which exclusionary ethnonationalisms, intense technological competition and the revival of power politics have been fuelling remilitarisation and major armed conflicts. Using a historical comparative approach, it argues that late-20th century globalisation has reached its political, social and spatial limits. Much like the long breakdown of late-19th century imperial globalisation, which unravelled in the face of a combustible mix of exacerbated nationalisms, disruptive social and economic strains, imperial rivalries and military build-ups, current global disintegration expresses the inescapable material and ideational tensions generated by the uneven distribution of gains and losses between and within states.