Online restaurant aggregators, which connect diners with restaurants and organize the delivery of ordered meals, have experienced significant growth in recent years. Meal delivery logistics is quite challenging, primarily due to the difficulty in managing the supply of delivery resources, i.e.,...

This paper examines and proposes strategies to strengthen the development and regulation of Higher Education in the Philippines as enacted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Through a comprehensive review of CHED's mandate, a comparative analysis of higher education systems throughout...

One objective of retail electricity markets is to enable end-use consumers to incorporate their reliability preferences into their purchasing decisions. This paper investigates if and how this can be done in electricity markets with a capacity requirement. It integrates the standard loss of load...

In this paper, Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models of quarterly data between 2007 and 2021 are estimated to assess short-term regimes of aggregate demand and distribution in Germany. The obtained Impulse Response Functions (IRFs) of the conventional neo-Goodwinian baseline case, with...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, like most developing countries, face major challenges to achieve strong, sustainable, and inclusive growth with the view to reduce significantly persistent poverty and inequality. Many of these challenges results from a high level of economic vulnerability due...

Purpose: This research develops a model integrating inventory with order pick-up that considers both the vendor's capacities and the pick-up time for the multi-vendor single-buyer (MVSB) system. Design/methodology/approach: A model of integrating inventory with pick-up of order considering both...

Purpose To enrich the research on the economic consequences of enterprise digital development from the perspective of capacity utilization. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of listed firms from 2010 to 2020, this paper exploits text analysis of annual reports to construct a proxy for...

This paper analyses capacity markets and proposes an approach to incorporate the flexibility of residential consumers in these markets considering reliability as a differentiated product. We introduce and assess the potential of non-linear pricing schemes, specifically priority pricing...

Die Rüstungsindustrie stand lange Zeit nicht im Fokus der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte. Der Export von Waffen und Dual-Use-Gütern wird restriktiv gehandhabt. Die Ausgaben für die Ausrüstung der Bundeswehr waren im Vergleich zu anderen Ländern niedrig, was die Branche unter Druck setzte....

The investigation into the employment-generating capacity of industries has captured the interest of numerous scholars on a global scale. However, there is a paucity of literature on the impact of the capacity underutilization of dairy processing plants (DPPs) on employment multipliers. This...

This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...

Many manufacturing firms face considerable difficulties in building export capacity and selling their products in international markets. These firms often struggle with unpredictable cost changes, logistical problems along the supply chain, and rising labor expenses that could threaten the...

Overlapping ownership has contrasting effects on capacity investments if duopoly firms invest sequentially. The follower’s reaction is less aggressive, but the leader acts more aggressively, either by choosing larger capacities or by shifting from accommodation to deterrence. If it shifts the...

This study aimed to demonstrate the profound impact of reducing excess capacity in terms of capital intensity on the growth rate of labor productivity in the manufacturing industry sector. The research was conducted for PhD study in 2019 across 55 groups of Indian manufacturing industries in six...

This paper studies behavioural responses to a discontinuous (‘notched’) revenue scheme for renewable energy production, in which support the scheme depends on the installed capacity. We present a simple model demonstrating that this discontinuous revenue function causes capacity bunching...

When dynamic production capacity is considered in production lot-sizing plans, it becomes very challenging to efficiently determine the optimal production plan. Many papers apply “at most one fractional production period” to develop efficient algorithms, but those algorithms are still...

Indoor vertical farming (VF) systems are a form of controlled environment agriculture, making use of technology to improve food availability and security while reducing environmental impacts. Commercially, it is a young industry with potential to disrupt the food supply chain status quo but is...

This study delves into the origins of excess capacity by examining the reactions of capital, labor, and capital intensity. To achieve this, we have employed a novel three-layered production function model, estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor as a nested layer,...

Supplier selection is critical in the sourcing process: retailers evaluate candidate suppliers across multiple attributes including price, quality, speed, and service to locate an ideal supply chain partner. While related theoretical research requires prior knowledge of retailers’ preferences...

This study delves into the origins of excess capacity by examining the reactions of capital, labor, and capital intensity. To achieve this, we have employed a novel three-layered production function model, estimating the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor as a nested layer,...

Limited information about the demand for some of the resources needed to produce goods and services (e.g., incomplete and imperfect bills of materials) forces firms to use heuristics when planning resource capacity. We examine the performance of five heuristics: two drawn from practice, two that...

Excess capacity poses a persistent challenge for airports as they often encounter lumpy capacity in the short run. The excess capacity is primarily influenced by the factors such as uncertain demand, airline competition, and the market structure of the airport industry. However, airport business...

In this paper we provide the first axiomatic characterization of preferences that can be represented by a Choquet integral with respect to an exact capacity. The characterizing axiom, Binary Diversification, is novel and states a preference for mixtures resulting in bets on events, i.e., binary...

We develop an original method for identifying the structural parameters of the production function and estimate the rate of capacity utilization in 12 EU countries. Our results provide evidence of persistent excess capacity and hysteresis in many EU countries, especially after the 2008’s...