Hierarchies and priorities in regional energy-environmental planning

This article is devoted to an analysis of hierarchies and priorities in energy-environmental policy making. The approach to dealing with conflicting issues in regional energy-environmental planning centers around selection of activities, according to a set of derived priorities subject to constraints reflecting interdependence of these activities. After an exposition of the prioritization problem, a method of accounting for the interdependence of activities is discussed.     

Can quality circles survive in the United States?

The context in which quality circles operate is an important to their long-term viability as is their internal structure. These contextual contingency variables—participants' attitudes, work setting, organizational culture, and the environment—represent factors that lie at the heart of the QC's ability to be integrated into Amerian organizational structures.