TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 47, Issue 9 (September 1996)

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Case-Oriented Papers

Putting Soft OR Methods to Work: Information Systems Strategy Development at Richards Bay

Richard Ormerod

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1083-1097; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.138

Multiple Container Packing: A Case Study of Pipe Packing

John A. George

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1098-1109; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.139

The Effect of Vehicular Flow Patterns on Crime and Emergency Services:
The Location of Cul-de-sacs and One-way Streets

Michael G. Van Buer, Enrique R. Venta, Arthur P. Hurter and Arthur Lurigio

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1110-1119; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.140

Modelling Cooperative Advertising Decisions in Franchising

Rajiv P. Dant and Paul D. Berger

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1120-1136; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.141

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Theoretical Papers

Overtime Scheduling: An Application in Finite-capacity Real-time Scheduling

Can Akkan

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1137-1149; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.142

Enhanced Adjacent Extreme-point Search and Tabu Search for the Minimum Concave-cost Uncapacitated Transshipment Problem

Cüneyt F. Bazlamacci and Khalil S. Hindi

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1150-1165; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.143

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Technical Notes

Nested Heuristic Methods for the Location-Routeing Problem

G. Nagy and S. Salhi

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1166-1174; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.144

Optimal Production Policy for an Item with Shortages and Increasing Time-varying Demand

Yong-Wu Zhou

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1175-1183; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.145

Lambda-Shaped Policies to Schedule Deteriorating Jobs

Gur Mosheiov

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1184-1194; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.146

A Backlog Inventory Model During Restricted Sale Periods

Rhonda L. Aull-Hyde

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1192-1200; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.147

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Book Selection

European Cases in Strategic Management

Geoff Easton

J Oper Res Soc 47: 1201-1202; doi:10.1057/jors.1996.148