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THE ADOPTION OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH TECHNIQUES BY MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS
Author(s) -
Gaither Norman
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1975.tb01063.x
Subject(s) - business , manufacturing , industrial organization , computer science , operations management , knowledge management , process management , marketing , operations research , economics , engineering
This research examines the adoption of operations research techniques by manufacturing organizations. The study includes the frequency of use, techniques used, organizational units and the number of personnel, types of problems analyzed, overall results achieved, and problems encountered among various sizes of firms and industry classes.