Planning in Decentralized Firms [electronic resource] : A Contribution to the Theory on Multilevel Decisions /

One Introduction -- 1.1. Problem statement -- 1.2. Outline of the book -- 1.3. Relevant economic literature -- 1.4. The multilevel approach -- Two The Model of the Firm: Multiple Techniques and Make-or-buy Decisions -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The firm in input-output terminology -- 2.3. Multiple techniques for market products -- 2.4. Make-or-buy decisions for technical services -- 2.5. Summary -- Three The Model of the Firm: Cost Allocations and Organizational Structure -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Cost allocation problems -- 3.3. Three illustrative examples -- 3.4. Cost allocation and multilevel decisions -- 3.5. The overall model -- 3.6. Summary -- Four Decomposition Based Planning: Price and Resource Directive Coordination -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The planning problem -- 4.3. Price-directive planning according to the Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition method -- 4.4. Resource-directive planning according to Benders’ decomposition method -- 4.5. Discussion -- 4.6. Summary -- Five Decomposition Based Planning: Mixed Price-Resource Directive Approaches -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Division-oriented mixed decomposition -- 5.3. Resource-oriented mixed decomposition -- 5.4. Summary -- Six Overall Analysis of the Model of the Firm -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Properties of overall solutions -- 6.3. Numerical example -- 6.4. Establishment of the overall production plan -- 6.5. Incorporation of cost allocation mechanisms -- 6.6. Summary -- Seven Multilevel Analysis of the Model of the Firm -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The multilevel approach for decentralized firms -- 7.3. Proposal for a two-level planning procedure -- 7.4. Cost allocations during the planning process -- 7.5. Summary -- Eight Review and Evaluation -- 8.1. Review of the text -- 8.2. Evaluation of the results -- Appendix A: appendix to Chapter Two. -- Appendix B: appendix to Chapter Three. -- Appendix C: appendix to Chapter Four. -- C.1. Derivation of the price-directive planning procedure according to Dantzig-Wolfe -- C.2. Derivation of the resource-directive planning procedure according to Benders -- Appendix D: appendix to Chapter Five -- D.1. Proof of Theorem 5.1 -- D.2. Further relaxation of problem (5.20) -- D.3. A convergence proof for the algorithm as presented in section 5.3.1 -- Appendix E: appendix to Chapter Six -- Appendix F: appendix to Chapter Seven -- List of Symbols -- References.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Meijboom, Bert R. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1987
Subjects:	Business., Organization., Planning., Business and Management.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48902-0
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