Purpose – Tracker funds offer an attractive balance between risk and return, by providing the profit of the index, with the reduced risk associated with the broad market cover. An effectively designed tracker fund will achieve best tracking of the index with minimal running and trading costs....

Purpose –Maximum Loss was one of the risk measures proposed as alternatives to Value at Risk following criticism that Value at Risk is not coherent. Although the power of Maximum Loss is recognised for non-linear portfolios, there are arguments that for linear portfolios Maximum Loss does not...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the behavior of a worker within an organization. There are two groups inside the firm that develop their work in different ways (sharing different codes). The worker will choose to converge to one of those groups, through an investment in...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present an integrated model for the location of warehouse, the allocation of retailers to warehouses, and finding the number of vehicles to deliver the demand and the required vehicle routing in order to minimize total transportation costs, fixed and...

Purpose – Entrepreneurs operate in conditions of dynamic uncertainty; identifying and exploiting opportunities presented by the business environment. Opportunistic search is core to entrepreneurial activity, but its dynamics are rarely explored. Groups of entrepreneurs are attracted to the...

Purpose – This paper aims to show how information in digital collections that have been catalogued using high‐quality metadata can be retrieved more easily by users of search engines such as Google. Design/methodology/approach – The research and proposals described arose from an...

Purpose – The value chain of the Norwegian meat production industry has recently been through major structural changes resulting in increased flows and transportation needs at all levels. The purpose of this paper is to present results of the initial stage of a five‐year research project...

Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to generalize the previous works on the design of accelerated life tests (ALTs) for periodic inspection and Type I censoring and to promote the use of an exponentiated Weibull (EW) distribution in accelerated life testing. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for optimally planning long‐haul road transport activities through proper aggregation of customer orders in separate full‐truckload or less‐than‐truckload shipments in order to minimize total transportation costs....

Purpose – A research‐based overview of high performance facility synchronization (HPFS), this paper aims to help facility managers understand trends and performance criteria as well as the financial and qualitative benefits that can result from implementing HPFS within their facilities....