Does anyone on this list have electronic access to this
journal/article. I need to get a copy in a hurry and the Oxford
library "physical" copy of this volume can't be traced ...
Ball, C. T., Langholtz, H. J., Auble, J. and Sopchak, B. (1998)
'Resource Allocation Strategies: A Verbal Protocol Analysis',
<i>Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes</i>,
<b>76</b>(1), October, pp. 70-88. [The current study examined the
strategies used by people to solve resource-allocation problems.
Verbal protocols were recorded as participants provided meal choices
for seven consecutive days with limited resources available to spend
on meals and with daily constraints imposed on meal consumption. None
of the participants incorporate the established mathematical
procedures (Linear Programming) to arrive at the optimum number of
meals possible in a week. However, the strategies they did use
enabled them to achieve meal totals on average at 94% of this optimal
amount. A few participants attempted to first solve the maximum meals
possible in a week before scheduling this solution across the seven
days (solve-and-schedule strategy), but the majority of participants
simply selected meals on a day-to-day basis while checking resource
availability each day to allow for full resource consumption
(consume-and-check strategy). The findings of this study provide a
preliminary step toward understanding how people make intuitive
resource-allocation decisions.]
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