Prevention of malaria requires a combination of laboratory and operational research and political will to provide affordable effective drugs

A narrative or a story (and these terms are synonyms) is a fundamental way of understanding our environment and relationships in it and thus it is a key feature of sound research whatever methodological approach has been taken. The skills of story telling are important in both qualitative or interpretive and quantitative research. But it comes into its own in qualitative research where story te...

This paper is motivated by the reported poor performance of IS implementations. In contrast to the dominant emphasis on formal approaches such as structured methods, this paper takes a position drawing upon research in management science, organizational science and psychology. It focuses on key personal and organizational capabilities in the IS implementation project, and in particular, entrepr...

This paper presents aspects of this further work, including the use of capability mapping and characterisation methods to better understand the required operational performance and a balanced affordable design. It explores the interrelationship between capability characteristics and the platform’s design parameters. It also examines design orientated issues such as the integration of off-board ...

The paper focuses on the development of the ex-post conceptual holistic framework for Project Evaluation on Strategic, Tactical and Operational Levels, the PESTOL model, by reviewing different definitions of project success and/or failure and combining the findings with the logic framework. The model reflects the project life cycle by considering all project phases, such as identification and c...

From strengths use to work performance: The role of harmonious passion, subjective vitality, and concentration Philippe Dubreuil, Jacques Forest & François Courcy a Department of Psychology, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard de l’Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1 b Department of Organization and Human Resources, UQAM School of Management Science, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Vill...

Tautology is interpreted as a necessary condition for the workability of an operations system. This condition suggests the following possibilities: the stable solvability of balance equations between available resources and requests for them; the calculation of potential and kinetic of the system together with the estimation of the contribution of every operation to the kinetic of the system; t...

Multiway tables with specified marginals arise in a variety of applications in statistics and operations research. We provide a comprehensive complexity classification of three fundamental computational problems on tables: existence, counting, and entry-security. One outcome of our work is that each of the following problems is intractable already for “slim” 3tables, with constant number 3 of r...

This paper presents a review of the literature on dynamic pricing models in management science. We discuss monopolistic and competitive situations, with an emphasis on applications in different contexts. We also describe the main development perspectives of this literature.