Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of the vector error-correction (VEC) econometric modelling technique in predicting short- to medium-term construction manpower demand. Design/methodology/approach - The VEC modelling technique is evaluated with two conventional...

Purpose – While formulating strategy, managers may commit a series of small and unwitting mistakes the consequences of which accumulate and lead to a big business failure, the type that usually gets a lot of attention from press. These mistakes are akin to committing unforced errors in sport,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the accurate and steady control on trajectory tracking for wafer transfer robot, suppress the vibration and reduce the contour error. Design/methodology/approach – The wafer transfer robot dynamic model is modeled. Through analyzing the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel error‐ranking methodology and two compensation strategies for hybrid parallel kinematic machines (HPKMs). Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines an error analysis methodology developed for HPKMs and applies the technique...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to prove the validity of Wagner's hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the validity of Wagner's hypothesis with annual data for Turkey over 1950-2005 period. Findings – The empirical results using the ARDL bounds tests of...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to prove the validity of Wagner's hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the validity of Wagner's hypothesis with annual data for Turkey over 1950‐2005 period. Findings – The empirical results using the ARDL bounds tests of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology based on vignettes and its application to measure the consistency of railway delay attribution, in order to report on experiences of using the methodology in this context. Design/methodology/approach – A survey is used to ask...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational justice, decision making, and the unintended consequences of cognitive biases and errors. Managers, and other leaders, are often subject to simple, but serious, biases and errors when making important organizational decisions....