Quantitative Planning and Control : Essays in Honor of William Wager Cooper on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

Quantitative Planning and Control: Essays in Honor of William Wager Cooper on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday features a collection of papers prepared by students and associates of William Wager Cooper to honor him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday. The book centers on the theme of Quantitative Planning and Control, the theme to which much of Professor Cooper's research effort has been devoted. The theme covers diverse fields of inquiry as reflected in the articles in this book, which are organized in four parts: (1) mathematical programming and decision models; (2) economic development and firm growth; (3) manpower planning and design; and (4) accounting and control. At the core of all of the articles in this book lies a belief that analytical approaches can help solve all managerial problems, a philosophy that is deeply rooted in Professor Cooper's thinking. This book demonstrates how this fundamental view on management can be reflected in dealing with problems in various fields of management. In particular, the book focuses on three main areas of application of this view, economic development, manpower planning, and accounting and control, along with the subject of developing tools that are necessary for solving managerial problems analytically. Content: Inside Front Cover, Page ifc1, WILLIAM WAGER COOPER Front Matter, Page iii Copyright, Page iv List of Contributors, Pages xi-xii, A. CHARNES, F. GLOVER, MYRON J. GORDON, V. GOVINDARAJAN, ANIL K. GUPTA, YUJI IJIRI, R. JAGANNATHAN, D. KARNEY, D. KLINGMAN, FERDINAND K. LEVY, KATHY A. LEWIS, TAKEHIKO MATSUDA, BERTIL NÄSLUND, R.J. NIEHAUS, D. NITTERHOUSE, M.R. RAO, N.V. RATNAM, VICENTE SALAS, ARIE P. SCHINNAR, L. SEIFORD, HERBERT A. SIMON, et al. Preface, Pages xiii-xv A Yankee from Chicago, Pages xvii-xxiii, HERBERT A. SIMON Adventures in Invention, Pages xxv-xxvii, A. CHARNES The Great Teacher, Pages xxix-xxx, ANDREW C. STEDRY 1 - Gradient States for Some Dualities with the C2 Extremal Principle, Pages 3-8, A. CHARNES, L. SEIFORD 2 - Branch and Round: An Enumerative Algorithm for Integer Programs, Pages 9-22, R.D. YOUNG 3 - A Minimax Procedure for a Class of Stochastic Programs, Pages 23-35, R. JAGANNATHAN 4 - A Linguistic Model for 3-D Constructions, Pages 37-58, CHRIS I. YESSIOS 5 - Decision-Making with Multiple Objectives—Some Analytic Approaches, Pages 59-68, JYRKI WALLENIUS, STANLEY ZIONTS 6 - Economic Development on a Distant Planet, Pages 71-76, MYRON J. GORDON 7 - A Linear Programming Approach to Agricultural Land Use Policy in India, Pages 77-102, M.R. RAO, N.V. RATNAM 8 - Time Preference, Firm Growth, and Programming Models, Pages 103-109, FERDINAND K. LEVY, JEROME D. WIEST 9 - Inflation and the Capital Budgeting Decision, Pages 111-122, BERTIL NÄUSLUND 10 - A Network Transshipment Model for Manpower Planning and Design, Pages 125-140, GERALD L. THOMPSON 11 - A Study of Alternative Relaxation Approaches for a Manpower Planning Problem, Pages 141-164, F. GLOVER, D. KARNEY, D. KLINGMAN 12 - A Demographic Turnpike for Long-Range Manpower Planning in Developing Economies, Pages 165-183, ARIE P. SCHINNAR 13 - Aspects of Control for the Organization Design and Manpower Planning Functions, Pages 185-206, KATHY A. LEWIS 14 - Manpower Goals Planning and Accountability, Pages 207-227, R.J. NIEHAUS, D. NITTERHOUSE 15 - Dynamic Break-Even and Trade-Off Analysis under Transient Cost Behavior, Pages 231-257, TAKEHIKO MATSUDA 16 - Convergence of Cash Recovery Rate, Pages 259-267, YUJI IJIRI 17 - A Theoretical Basis for Inflation Accounting, Pages 269-290, VICENTE SALAS, ANDREW B. WHINSTON 18 - Accounting Disclosures for User Decision Processes, Pages 291-309, RAY G. STEPHENS 19 - An Examination of Alternative Forms of Regulatory Mechanisms: The Case of the Health Care Industry, Pages 311-328, V. GOVINDARAJAN, ANIL K. GUPTA APPENDIX - Bibliography of the Works of William Wager Cooper, Pages 329-344