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TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION: STRATEGIC DECISION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Author(s) -
LI SHANLING,
LOULOU RICHARD,
RAHMAN ATIQUR
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
production and operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.279
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1937-5956
pISSN - 1059-1478
DOI - 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2003.tb00200.x
Subject(s) - computer science , mathematical optimization , heuristic , profit (economics) , stochastic programming , linear programming , operations research , scale (ratio) , industrial engineering , management science , economics , mathematics , algorithm , microeconomics , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
We develop a stochastic programming model to aid manufacturing firms in making strategic decisions in technology acquisition. The proposed model maximizes the firm's expected profit under the condition of the uncertainty in technological progress and development. To solve this large‐scale problem, we decompose future uncertainties through scenarios and then develop an algorithm to solve the resulting non‐linear subproblems efficiently. Finally, we develop a heuristic to eliminate the infeasibility in the master problem and obtain best solutions. Numerical results show that our heuristic solutions are very close to the optimal solutions and meaningful insights are derived.