Baker, RD 2005, 'Risk aversion in maintenance : overmaintenance and the principal-agent problem' , IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 17 (2) , pp. 99-113.
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The concept of a risk-averse maintenance policy is introduced, and two approaches to modelling it are discussed, the first being via utility functions, and the second via inflation of the costs of unscheduled failures. After introducing a general methodology, several examples of its application are given. Principal-agent theory is then applied to the case of a maintenance engineer (the agent) who overmaintains equipment due to excessive risk aversion. Incentives based on the total cost of maintenance and failures can reduce overmaintenance, and it may be optimal for management to pay such an incentive. The problem is illustrated with an example of block maintenance. Suggestions for further work in this field are made. Keywords: utility function; overmaintenance; block maintenance; age-based replacement; principal-agent problem; incentives
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Themes: | Subjects / Themes > Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA275 Mathematical Statistics Subjects outside of the University Themes |
| Schools: | Schools > Salford Business School > Salford Business School Research Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | IMA Journal of Management Mathematics |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| ISSN: | 1471-678X |
| Depositing User: | H Kenna |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2007 08:15 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2017 14:00 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/263 |
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