The combination of uncertain demand and lead times for installing capacity creates the risk of shortage during the lead time, which may have serious consequences for a service provider with dependent customers. This paper analyzes a model of capacity expansion with autocorrelated random demand and a fixed lead time for adding capacity. To provide a specified level of service, a discrete time ex...

A global airline has cargo operations in multiple nations and locations. In this paper, we study optimal policies for managing sales agents. At present, for each flight, headquarters retains a portion of the total capacity and allocates the rest to sales agents. Capacity retained by the headquarters is used only after the allocated capacity is exhausted. While each agent is allowed to use any p...

Abstract The policy capacity framework offers relevant analytical ideas that can be mobilized for health system strengthening. However, the employment of this in field constitutes a interdisciplinary gap knowledge. This themed issue explores relationships between and strengthening, multidimensional way, high-income low–middle-income countries. introduction unpacks dynamic interrelationships bri...

Strategic advising and capacity building are closely interconnected, as they involve the deployment to foreign countries of American advisers who will act by strengthening democratization, attracting military police contingents, civil administrators, providing humanitarian assistance, economic stabilization infrastructure development. All these instruments aimed at influence everywhere used Was...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms’ innovation capacity especially under Chinese regional economic policy. This is a critical subject that lacks sufficient analysis. Through years of investment and effort, several IT industrial clusters have developed in Chin...

Knowledge and skills in research ethics are essential for conducting ethically responsible research. Despite some local policies, strategic guidelines, manuals on the antithesis of misconduct, researchers’ adherence to ethics, especially conduct research, is still critical developing countries like Nepal. This study explores policy provisions develop capacity With aim, we identified ten key doc...

Managing Capacity Flexibility in Make-to-Order Production Environments Fehmi Tanrisever , Douglas Morrice , David Morton c a School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands b Red McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 c Graduate Program in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, The University of T...

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...