"New Zealand
Health Reform – A Systemic Approach to Restructuring and its Impacts",
the International Healthcare Management Conference, Chicago, 5-8
August 1998.
"Design Strategies
for Service Products - Lessons from Manufacturing", Joint
Euro/Informs International Conference, Barcelona, 14-17 July 1997.
"Quality Dimensions
and the Service/Manufacturing Dichotomy", IV International
EurOMA Conference, Barcelona, 15-18 June 1997.
"Effect of
Long term Relationships in Professional Service Firms: Some Implications
Over Time", International research Conference on Quality
Management, Melbourne, Australia, 5-7 February 1996.
"The Application
of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) in Systems Development: A
Case Study", The 5th Australian Conference on Information
Systems Melbourne, Australia, 27-29 September, 1994.
"Manufacturing
and Market Impact of Improved Process Quality -Some Empirical
Evidence", Production Operations Management Society Conference,
New York, November 1991. (This paper was nominated for the
Best-Paper Award by the POM Society)
"Comparing
Alternative Transportation Strategies Using Computer-Based Simulation
Models", Decision Science Institute Annual Conference,
Pittsburgh, 1991. (This Paper was nominated for the Outstanding
Application of Theory Award by DSI)
"A Conformance-Performance
Model: Linking Quality Strategies to Business Unit's Performance",
presented at the Industry-University Conference on Manufacturing
Strategy, University of Michigan, 8-9 January 1990. (Session
was chaired by Professor Robert Hayes of Harvard Business School,
who is regarded as the foremost authority in technology management).
"Manufacturing
Quality, Quality Costs and Productivity - Theory and Case Studies",
paper presented at TIMS 29th International Meeting, Osaka,
Japan, 23-26 July 1989.
"Quality,
Productivity and Profitability - Are They Really Compatible",
Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies Conference,
Seoul, Korea, 24-26 August 1988.
"Productivity
Through Quality - Another Lesson Learned from the Japanese",
27th International meeting of the Institute of Management Science,
Gold Coast, Australia, 20-23 July, 1986.
"Simulation
Assisted Design of Production Lines", Fifth National and
Second International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering,
Orlando, Florida, 16-18 March 1983.
"A Simulation
Model for Court Systems Analysis", invited paper presented
to the International Congress on Operations Research, Valparaiso,
Chile, 6-8 May 1982.
"A Zero-One
Integer Program for a Multi-User, Multi-Location Network Problem",
AIIE Annual Conference and World Productivity Congress,
Detroit, Michigan,
"A Network
Simulation Approach for Production Facilities", Joint
National Meeting of ORSA/TIMS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 15-17
October 1979.
"A Stochastic
Simulation Model for Analysis of Assembly Lines", Ninth
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Honolulu,
Hawaii, 6-8 January 1976 (co-author G L Hogg).
"Analysis
of Assembly Lines with Generalized Network Simulation (GNS)",
Joint National Meeting of ORSA/TIMS, Las Vegas, Nevada,
17-19 November, 1975
Maani, K. "Concept
Design - A Methodology for Breakthrough Service Development",
Department of Management Science & Information Systems
Working Paper No. 148, June 1997.
Maani, K. "Functional
Intergration - Theory and Practice in New Zealand Organisations",
working paper in progress.
Maani, K. , Putterill,
M., and Sluti, D., "Quality Improvement in Manufacturing:
A Multi-industry and Business Unit Performance Using Structural
Equation Modelling", Department of Management Science
& Information Systems Working Paper No. 23, November 1992.
Morrison, P., Heineke,
J., and Maani, K. "Lessons From Operations Management for
Schools of Management", Department of Operations Management
Working Paper, Boston University, January 1992.
Maani, K. "The
Quality -Productivity Connection", Department of Management
Science & Information Systems, November 1989.
Hardie, B., and
Maani, K. E. "Comparing Alternative Transportation Strategies
Using Microcomputer-Based Simulation Modelling", Department
of Management Science & Information Systems, July 1989.