Action variety of planners: Cognitive load and requisite variety

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 813-821

  Fransoo, Jan C ^a   Wiers, Vincent C S ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical industry; Cognitive load; Field study; Requisite variety; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

COGNITIVE LOAD; FIELD STUDY; REQUISITE VARIETY; TASK COMPLEXITY;

PLANNING;

EID: 33751227798     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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