50 Most Influential Papers

50 Most Influential Papers, 1954-2004, as Chosen by the Management Science Editorial Board

Ackoff, RL. 1967. Management Misinformation Systems. Management Science 14(4) B147.

Adams, J, E Balas, D Zawack. 1988. The Shifting Bottleneck Procedure for Job Shop Scheduling. Management Science 34(3) 391.

Banker, RD, A Charnes, WW Cooper. 1984. Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis. Management Science 30(9) 1078.

Barney, JB. 1986. Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy. Management Science 32(10) 1230.

Bass, FM. 1969. New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables. Management Science 15(5) 215.*

Baumol, WJ. 1963. An Expected Gain-Confidence Limit Criterion for Portfolio Selection. Management Science 10(1) 174.

Bellman, RE, LA Zadeh. 1970. Decision-Making in a Fuzzy Environment. Management Science 17(4) B141.

Charnes, A, WW Cooper. 1959. Chance Constrained Programming. Management Science B6(1) 73.

Charnes, A, WW Cooper, E Rhodes. 1981. Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency – An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through. Management Science 27(6) 668.

Clark, AJ, H Scarf. 1960. Optimal Policies for a Multi-echelon Inventory Problem. Management Science 6(4) 475.*

Cornuejols, G, ML Fisher, GL Nemhauser. 1977. Location of Bank Accounts to Optimize Float - Analytic Study of Exact and Approximate Algorithms. Management Science 23(8) 789.

Daft, RL, RH Lengel. 1986. Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design. Management Science 32(5) 554.

Dantzig, GB. 1955. Linear Programming Under Uncertainty. Management Science 1(2) 197.*

Darr, ED, L Argote, D Epple. 1995. The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises. Management Science 41(11) 1750.

Davis, FD, RP Bagozzi, PR Warshaw. 1989. User Acceptance of Computer-Technology – A Comparison of Two Theoretical-Models. Management Science 35(8) 982.

Derman, C. 1962. On Sequential Decisions and Markov Chains. Management Science 9(1) 16.

Desanctis, G, RB Gallupe. 1987. A Foundation for the Study of Group Decision Support Systems. Management Science 33(5) 589.

Dierickx, I, K Cool. 1989. Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage. Management Science 35(12) 1504.

Eppen, GD. 1979. Effects of Centralization on Expected Costs in a Multi-Location Newsboy Problem. Management Science 25(5) 498.

Fisher, ML. 1981. The LaGrangian-Relaxation Method for Solving Integer Programming-Problems. Management Science 27(1) 1.*

Florian, M, JK Lenstra, AHG Rinnooykan. 1980. Deterministic Production Planning – Algorithms and Complexity. Management Science 26(7) 669.

Ford, LR, DL Fulkerson. 1958. A Suggested Computation for Maximal Multi-Commodity Network Flows. Management Science 5(1) 97.*

Gallego, G, G VanRyzin. 1994. Optimal Dynamic Pricing of Inventories With Stochastic Demand Over Finite Horizons. Management Science 40(8) 999.

Glynn, PW, DL Iglehart. 1989. Importance Sampling for Stochastic Simulations. Management Science 35 (11) 1367.

Harsanyi, JC. 1967. Games with Incomplete Information Played by "Bayesian" Players, I: The Basic Model. Management Science 14(3) 159.*

Harsanyi, JC. 1968. Games with Incomplete Information Played by "Bayesian" Players, II: Bayesian Equilibrium Points. Management Science 14(5) 320.

Harsanyi, JC. 1968. Games with Incomplete Information Played by "Bayesian" Players, III: Basic Probability Distribution of the Game. Management Science 14(7) 486.

Holt, CC, F Modigliani, HA Simon. 1955. Linear Decision Rule for Production and Employment Scheduling. Management Science 2(1) 1.

Iglehart, DL. 1963. Optimality of (s,S) Policies in the Infinite Horizon Dynamic Inventory Problem. Management Science 9(2) 259.

Jackson, JR. 1963. Jobshop-Like Queueing Systems. Management Science 10(1) 131.*

Karlin, S. 1960. Dynamic Inventory Policy with Varying Stochastic Demands. Management Science 6(3) 231.

Karmarkar, US. 1987. Lot Sizes, Lead Times and In-Process Inventories. Management Science 33(3) 409.

Lawler, EL. 1963. The Quadratic Assignment Problem. Management Science 9(4) 586.

Lee, HL, V Padmanabhan, SJ Whang. 1997. Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect. Management Science 43(4) 546.*

Lemke, CE. 1965. Bimatrix Equilibrium Points and Mathematical Programming. Management Science 11(7) 681.

Little, JDC. 1970. Models and Managers - Concept of a Decision Calculus. Management Science 16(8) B466.*

Markus, ML, D Robey. 1988. Information Technology and Organizational-Change – Causal-Structure in Theory and Research. Management Science 34(5) 583.

Marschak, J. 1955. Elements for a Theory of Teams. Management Science 1(2) 127.

Mintzberg, H.1978. Patterns in Strategy Formation. Management Science 24(9) 934.

Porteus, EL. 1985. Investing in Reduced Setups in the EOQ Model. Management Science 31(8) 998.

Roundy, R. 1985. 98-Percent Effective Integer-Ratio Lot-Sizing for One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer Systems. Management Science 31(11) 1416.

Sharpe, WF. 1963. A Simplified Model for Portfolio Analysis. Management Science 9(2) 277.

Sproull, L, S Kiesler. 1986. Reducing Social-Context Cues – Electronic Mail in Organizational Communication. Management Science 32(11) 1492.

Stecke, KE. 1983. Formulation and Solution of Non-Linear Integer Production Planning Problems for Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Management Science 29(3) 272.

Sterman, JD. 1989. Modeling Managerial Behavior – Misperceptions of Feedback in a Dynamic Decision-Making Experiment. Management Science 35(3) 321.

Suri, R, MA Zazanis. 1988. Perturbation Analysis Gives Strongly Consistent Sensitivity Estimates for the M/G/1 Queue. Management Science 34(1) 39.

Veinott, AF. 1965. Optimal Policy for a Multio-Product, Dynamic, Nonstationary Inventory Problem. Management Science 12(3): 206.

Veinott, AF, HM Wagner. 1965. Computing Optimal (s,S) Inventory Policies. Management Science 11(5) 525.

Wagner, HM, TM Whitin. 1958. Dynamic Version of the Economic Lot Size Model. Management Science 5(1) 89.*

Zangwill, WI. 1968. Minimum Concave Cost Flows in Certain Networks. Management Science 14(7) 429.

*voted Top Ten most influential papers by INFORMS membership.