International Journal of Production Economics

Editor-in-Chief: R.W. Grubbström Dept. of Production Economics, Inst. of Technology, Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden, Asian-Pacific Editor: T.C.E. Cheng Dept. of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, European Editor: B. MacCarthy Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham, England, UK, North-American Editor: P. Kelle Dept. of Information Systems and Decision Sci, E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, 3197 CEBA, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA, Associate Editor: O. Tang Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Editorial Board: P.J. Agrell Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, S. Axsäter Lund University, Lund, Sweden, W.L. Berry Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, L.E. Cardenas-Barron Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico, A. Chikán Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, H. Ding Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, S.M. Disney Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK, A. Dolgui Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, St. Etienne cedex 2, France, T. Durand Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay Malabry, France, S.E. Elmaghraby North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, W.G. Ferrell Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, B.E. Flores Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, J.R. Freeland University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, L.F. Gelders Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium, T.N. Goh National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, A. Gunasekaran University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA, H.H. Hinterhuber Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, K. Hitomi Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, R.H. Hollier University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK, T. Ichimura Nihon University, Chiyoda-Ku, Japan, K. Inderfurth Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, K. Ishii Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan, U.S. Karmarkar University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, B.M.T. Lin National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, T.M. Lin Taiwan Tech - National Taiwan Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, R.J. Linn The Boeing Company, Everett, WA, USA, S. Minner University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, T. Morton Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, J.A. Muckstadt Cornell University, New York, NY, USA, D.N.P. Murthy University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, C. O'Brien University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK, S. Park Seoul National University (SNU), Gwanag-Gu, Seoul, South Korea, L. Peccati Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy, J.-M. Proth Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Metz, France, D.S. Remer Harvey Mull College, Claremont, CA, USA, B.H. Rho Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, J. Rowcroft University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, D.A. Samson University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, B.R. Sarker Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, C.A. Snyder Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA, M.T. Tabucanon Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand, J.M.A. Tanchoco Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, R. Teunter Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, D.R. Towill University of Wales, Cardiff, UK, M. Tuominen Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, L.N. Van Wassenhove INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, D.C. Whybark University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, J. Wijngaard Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, S. Wu Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, H. Yamashina Matsue National College of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, C.A. Yano University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, P. Zipkin Duke University, Durham, NC, USA