Article ID: | iaor2002147 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 71 |
Issue: | 1/3 |
Start Page Number: | 164 |
End Page Number: | 175 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Milne Alistair, Whalley A. Elizabeth |
We solve two models of time to build, a first, where production cannot be suspended once started and a second, with costless suspension of production, and use a numerical scheme to analyse the implications of these models for the dynamics of aggregate work-in-progress.