Department/School
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Date of this version
2012
Document Type
Article
Keywords
service operations, resource planning, production function, co-production
Abstract
The way in which service firms transform inputs into outputs is typically uncertain or unknown. Consequently decision makers, at best, can only make estimates of the underlying production function. The purpose of this study is offer policy recommendations to service providers and to examine experimentally the sensitivity of estimates of production functions. The primary result of this study is a foundation for modeling manpower planning decisions for co-produced services when production functions are mis-estimated and/or mis-specified.
Published in
International Journal of Production Economics
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Commons