Purpose – This paper aims to provide a framework for the airlines to forecast demand, specifically on international routes operated from major metros of the USA and position their services by designing the service positioning matrix. Major benefits include route contemplation, effective fleet...

Purpose – According to literature research and conversations with apparel manufacturers' specialists, there is not any common analytic method for demand forecasting in apparel industry and to the authors' knowledge, there is not adequate number of study in literature to forecast the demand...

Purpose – So far, the author lacks a comprehensive definition of military supply chain (SC) flexibility, as well as performance measures to evaluate it. This paper aims to address these gaps. It seeks to develop performance measures to assess the flexibility of a military SC....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare the performances of portfolio optimisation models including Markowitz's mean-variance model (MV model), Konno and Yamazaki's mean-absolute deviation portfolio optimisation model (MAD model), Young's minimax portfolio model and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the formation of industrial clusters on the obtainment of professional human resources, to verify the impact of human resources on clustering relationships and firm’s performance and to understand whether the formation of...