Two aspects of regime-change management are transitory planning, which avoids assembly feed-stock shortages in the new processing regime, and the timing of the change, which enhances the meshing of adjacent plans. In this paper, the stock implications of regime changes which incorporate transitory planning, are optimised with respect to the timing of the change. To highlight the stock effect, p...

The UA Indigenous Governance Program is an educational partnership between two units, the Native Nations Institute [4] (NNI) at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy [5] and the Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program [6] (IPLP) at the James E. Rogers College of Law [7]. In 2018, its three-week JIT event offers fourteen different courses, ranging from Indigenous Food Sovereignty [8] ...

Though increasing usage of just-in-time (JIT) practices is reported, academics—including Shapiro at Harvard Business School, Karmarkar at UCLA (Anderson) and Cusumano at MIT (Sloan)—as well as a number of practitioners have warned against the unrestricted pursuit of just-in-time practices. They suggest that pure JIT is appropriate only for limited economic environments, that it is ineffective i...

Studies of sick pay and absenteeism have traditionally treated absence as a worker-related phenomenon. There are good reasons to suppose, though, that firms’ incentives to control absenteeism are not uniform. This paper presents what we believe to be the first evidence for relationships between the nature of a firm’s production method ) and its personnel policies, particularly as they are direc...