Management Matters

New indications of managerial innovations are created and then used to show that changes in organizational technologies are an important source of economic growth. Specifically, the analysis demonstrates that, first, in response to a positive managerial technology shock, output, productivity and hours significantly increase in the short run, second, these types of innovations are as important as non-managerial ones in explaining movements in these variables at business cycle frequencies, and, third, product and process innovations promote the development of new managerial techniques.Business Cycles; Productivity; Management techniques; Technical Change

Improving the coordination of care : an educational program

Supersedes working paper no.710-74 of the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management

Gestión colaborativa en la cadena de abastecimiento en Argentina

La búsqueda de mejoras de costo dentro de las empresas se basa en lograr eficiencias dentro del campo de gestión de la propia empresa, muy rara vez estos estudios y acciones se enfocan en integrar acciones entre diferentes empresas. De este modo, dentro de lo que denominamos “cadena de valor” exiten recursos utilizados en forma ineficiente en diferentes grados. La intención de la investigación es analizar en qué grado existe la oportunidad de integrar recursos en diferentes actores de la vida económica, de modo que bajo la visión que los recursos ineficientes se pueden compartir, se detectan oportunidades de mejora, que exceden lo únicamente empresario, ya que abarcan incluso al conjunto de la sociedad. Esta visión es conocida como “Gestión colaborativa de las Cadenas de Abastecimiento” (CSCM, por sus siglas en inglés) y si bien ya está en aplicación en economías más desarrolladas, aún es poco implementada en Argentina como visión estratégica de negocios

Tautologies, models and theories--can we find "laws" of manufacturing?

"This is a revised version of Little (1992) in Manufacturing Systems: Foundations of World-Class Practice, J.A. Heim and W.D. Compton, eds."Are there "laws" of manufacturing? If so, what do they look like? If not, what other forms of knowledge might comprise intellectual foundations for a discipline of manufacturing? We differentiate among mathematical tautologies, laws, models, and theories, giving examples of each. Laws closely analogous to those of nineteenth century physics appear to be unlikely but empirical models offer the prospect of building new understanding of manufacturing, even if they may lack the precision of their classical counterparts. Descriptive models serving scientific goals tend to differ from prescriptive models for problem-solving. The latter must be complete enough to solve the practical problem at hand and yet be selective in their detail so as not to paralyze problem-solving with irrelevant complication. A growing collection of parsimonious models and theories can form a basis for the design, analysis and control of complex manufacturing systems

Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication (AgLEC) Collection Development Policy

The ALEC collection supports the teaching, research and service activities of the entire university community. Its primary audience is the faculty, staff, and students of the ALEC department. The collections primary focus is support for the undergraduate and graduate curricula for agricultural education, tourism in agriculture, industrial technology education, leadership and communication. Specific and transient research needs of ALEC faculty and graduate students are supplemented through Interlibrary Loan. The focus of the ALEC collection is diverse in nature as it encompasses disciplines that are well established within colleges and departments in the university structure. The collection is multifaceted and is distributed widely to support curriculum and research needs within subject areas including: teaching, learning, and teacher education, and industrial technology as they pertain to agriculture. Tourism, environmental communication and education, and leadership are also included. Materials are not purchased for the general public though they may benefit from the collection

The relation of internal communication and R&D project performance as a function of position in the R&D spectrum

"The research reported in this paper was supported by a grant (SIS75-11829) from the Division of Science Information, National Science Foundation.

EBSCO Library of Congress Classification Report 2012

This report lists all periodicals subscribed to in 2012 through EBSCO Subscription Services by the University Libraries, University of Rhode Island. Information provided includes title, ISSN, Library of Congress Classification number and name, and account number (for URI, Pell, or CCE). The list is sorted by LC Classification to better show the journals that support each discipline/subject area. Not included here are titles available through online journal packages and reference databases, which now comprise the majority of the Libraries\u27 subscriptions. The journals listed here are those to which the Libraries subscribe to individually, title-by-title, through EBSCO