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Volume 53, issue 3, March 2002
18 articles in this issue
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Performance management and Operational Research: a marriage made in heaven?
Authors
- P C Smith
- M Goddard
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 247 - 255
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‘Good enough’ performance measurement: a trade-off between activity and action
Authors
- R Johnston
- S Brignall
- L Fitzgerald
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 256 - 262
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The role of coherent supply chain strategy and performance management in achieving competitive advantage: an international survey
Authors
- A Harrison
- C New
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 263 - 271
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Rethinking the management of flexibility—a study in the aerospace defence industry
Authors
- D J Hamblin
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 272 - 282
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Beyond comparisons—the role for the operational researcher in benchmarking
Authors
- G Francis
- J Holloway
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 283 - 291
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Comparative performance measurement in regulation: the case of English and Welsh sewerage services
Authors
- E Thanassoulis
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 292 - 302
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Using DEA and survival analysis for measuring performance of branches in New Zealand's Accident Compensation Corporation
Authors
- M Meimand
- R Y Cavana
- R Laking
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 303 - 313
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Improving the discriminating power of DEA: focus on globally efficient units
Authors
- D K Despotis
- Content type: Original Article
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 314 - 323
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Genetic algorithms for the bus driver scheduling problem: a case study
Authors
- T G Dias
- J P de Sousa
- J F Cunha
- Content type: Theoretical Paper
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 324 - 335
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Optimal replacement policy for a multistate repairable system
Authors
- Y L Zhang
- R C M Yam
- M J Zuo
- Content type: Theoretical Paper
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 336 - 341
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Outlier detection in data envelopment analysis: an analysis of jackknifing
Authors
- J Ondrich
- J Ruggiero
- Content type: Technical Note
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 342 - 346
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Should critical realism really be critical for OR? A comment on Mingers (2000): the contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems
Authors
- R J Ormerod
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 347 - 351
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Reply to Ormerod—the importance of being real
Authors
- J C Mingers
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 351 - 354
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Response to Mingers—an overarching philosophy for OR/MS—Sed Quis Custodet Custodies? [But who is to guard the guards themselves] (Juvenal, c. AD 60–130)
Authors
- R J Ormerod
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 354 - 357
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Response to Ormerod: play it again, Sam
Authors
- J C Mingers
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 357 - 359
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A comment on Yolles (2001): Viable boundary critique
Authors
- R J Ormerod
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 360 - 363
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Reply to Ormerod
Authors
- M I Yolles
- Content type: Viewpoint
- Published: 22 February 2002
- Pages: 363 - 367