Centralized decision making

Centralized, fully public management, warehousing and delivery system Centralized, (semi)private management and warehousing system Centralized decision making but decentralized, private direct delivery system Centralized decision making but decentralized, private warehousing and delivery system... 

Hierarchical authority with centralized decision-making about research programs, number of personnel, work conditions, or budgetary matters... 

The European Council is the supreme authority and central decision-making... 

The problem is modeled as a stationary multi-period newsvendor problem with lost sales. Assuming a coordinated policy (where double marginalization has been eliminated through centralized decision making). The decision to be optimized is the base stock level at the traditional retailers, 5rz,with i g 1,.. ., iV and at the internet store, Sj. Since each traditional retailer is... 

The paper provides a numerical example using the tangent line approximation of Khumawala and Kelly (1974) to justify their claim that when there is a production economy of scale, there is a tendency toward centralized decision making. 

If the potential trade-offs in rationalising sourcing, production and distribution across national boundaries are to be achieved then it is essential that a central decision-making structure for logistics is established. 

Centralize all decision making to avoid project delays... 

Therefore, 30 years after the establishment of the field, we believe multimedia environmental contaminant fate modelling remains a vibrant scientific discipline that has a central role in science and decision-making in environmental chemistry. 

A new Loan must be created whenever a Loanableltem is handed over to a BookHolder. But there may be different subclasses of Loan, depending on the details of the period, and on different kinds of Items and Holders. Techniques, such as double-dispatching, can be used to distribute the decision across all the classes on which it depends. Instead, a more maintainable solution is to centralize the decision making and leave that item to make relevant queries of the other classes ... 

The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided - as a multiple self. The issue is a central one for several disciplines. It bears directly on the account of rationality and the explanation of individual decision-making and behaviour. Is the hypothesis of a multiple self required to deal with the problems of self-deception and weakness of will and can the conceptual tools developed in the study of interpersonal conflict be applied to the analysis of intra-personal struggle ... 

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