Bipolarity in reactions to operational 'constraints': OM bugs under an OB lens

Journal of Operations Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-13

  Bendoly, Elliot ^a   Hur, Daesik ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Marketing   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Behavioral theory; Constraints; Inverted U; Operations

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL THEORY; CONCEPTUALIZATION; INTERPRETABILITY; INVERTED-U; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33845416201     PISSN: 02726963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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