Editing Limiting factor (section)

==Business and technology==
AllBusiness.com defines a limiting (constraining) factor as an "item that restricts or limits production or sale of a given product". The examples provided include: "limited machine hours and labor-hours and shortage of materials and skilled labor. Other limiting factors may be cubic feet of display or warehouse space, or working capital."<ref>{{cite news|journal=AllBusiness Business Glossary|title=Business definition for: Limiting (constraining) factor|access-date=April 28, 2013|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/constraining-limiting-factor/4949815-1.html}}</ref> The term is also frequently used in technology literature.<ref>{{cite news|author=Sheriff, A. |author2=Bouchlaghem, D. |author3=El-Hamalawi, A. |author4=Yeomans, S. |year=2012|title=Information Management in UK-Based Architecture and Engineering Organizations: Drivers, Constraining Factors, and Barriers|journal=Journal of Management in Engineering|volume =28 |issue =2|pages= 170–180}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Institutional Factors in Information Technology Innovation|author=John Leslie King |author2=Vijay Gurbaxani |author3=Kenneth L. Kraemer |author4=F. Warren McFarlan |author5=K. S. Raman |author6=C. S. Yap |journal=   Information Systems Research |doi=10.1287/isre.5.2.139 |date= June 1994   |volume= 5  |number= 2|pages=  139–169 |url=http://isr.journal.informs.org/content/5/2/139.abstract
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The analysis of limiting business factors is part of the [[program evaluation and review technique]], [[critical path analysis]], and [[theory of constraints]] as presented in ''[[The Goal (novel)|The Goal]]''.