This paper considers a seat inventory control problem in which flights depart sequentially and passengers purchase available seats depending on customer choice behavior. Customer choice behavior can lead to either a horizontal shift or a booking loss when a desired fare class is unavailable. This problem is mathematically challenging and intractable via exact mathematical models. As an alternat...

A number of studies have noted the influence of national differences on HRM strategic choice and practices of multinational companies (MNC's). These have mostly concerned the influence of the characteristic s of a host country on management practice in the subsidiaries, that is an ethnocentric strategy or the process of forward diffusion. In particular they have focussed on the way in which the...

This empirical research analyses how firm resources influence the choice of governance structures in strategic alliances in the German telecommunications industry. The results of the study indicate that the choice of governance structure is determined by knowledge-based resources rather than resource heterogeneity, and support the claim that partner firms will use equity to safeguard their know...

In considering the Miles and Snow analyzer strategic-type, this paper re-examines the relationship between strategic choice, accounting information systems design (AIS), and business-unit performance. This paper also examines the construct validity of the variables considered in the study. In response to previous studies that called for triangulation of variables with other sources, the validit...

This paper suggests a theory of choice among strategic situations when the rules of play are not properly specified. We take the view that a “strategic situation” is adequately described by a TU game since it specifies what is feasible for each coalition but is silent on the procedures that are used to allocate the surplus. We model the choice problem facing a decision maker (DM) as having to c...

cavernous hemangioma is a rare benign tumor of the internal auditory canal (iac) of which fourteen cases have been reported so far. tinnitus and progressive sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) are the chief complaints of the patients. audiological and radiological planes, ctscan, and magnetic resonance image (mri) studies are helpful in diagnosis. the only choice of treatment is surgery with elec...

The Strategic Choice of Measures (SCM) approach aims to integrate different perspectives and identify measures adapt new infrastructure projects their local context at an early stage Swedish transport planning. SCM is a loosely structured framework for collaboration between actors from, e.g., municipalities the Transport Administration, in order facilitate coordination planning land use This pa...