Search Results - subject:"Theory of constraints"

Application of a methodology based on the theory of constraints in the sector of tourism services

Pérez Campdesuñer, Reyner; Pérez Pravia, Milagros; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 10 (2017) 1, pp. 7-27

Purpose: The objective of the research was aimed at achieving the implementation of the theory of constraints on the … theory of constraints. Findings: The application of tools designed for hospitality organizations allowed to demonstrate the … applicability of the theory of constraints on entities under conditions different from the usual, develop a set of conversion …

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Functional Bottlenecks of Multipurpose Cooperative Marketing Societies in India

Shah, Deepak - 2017

The present study, carried out in the state of Maharashtra during 2004-05, focuses on two cases of multipurpose cooperatives dealing mainly with the marketing of fruits but having their spectrum spread over various other marketing activities, including input and credit delivery. The synthesis of...

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Nodewise Decay in Two-Way Flow Nash Network : A Study of Network Congestion

Charoensook, Banchongsan - 2017

This paper studies a non-cooperative model of network formation. Built upon the two-way flow model of Bala and Goyal (2000a), it assumes that information decay as it flows through each agent, and the decay is increasing and concave in the number of his links. This assumption results in the fact...

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The Tragedy of the Last Mile : Economic Solutions to Congestion in Broadband Networks

Malone, Jacob - 2017

The growth of the Internet has constrained broadband networks, forcing service providers to search for solutions. We develop a dynamic model of daily usage during peak and non-peak periods, and estimate consumers' price and congestion sensitivity using high frequency usage data. Using the model...

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Optimal Congestion Pricing with Diverging Long-Run and Short-Run Scheduling Preferences

Verhoef, Erik T. - 2017

Recent empirical work has suggested that there is an important distinction between short-run versus long-run scheduling behaviour of commuters, reflected in differences in values of time and schedule delays, as well as in preferred arrival moments, for the short-run versus the long-run problem....

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Finance and Employment in Developing Countries : The Working Capital Channel

Dao, Mai - 2017

We study the effect of external financing constraint on job creation in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDC) at the firm level by looking at a specific transmission channel- the working capital channel. We develop a simple model to illustrate how the need for working capital...

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Curbing Congestion and Vehicular Emissions in China : A Call for Economic Measures

Deng, Xin - 2017

With the exponential growth of the national vehicle fleet in the last three decades, most cities in China are facing mounting pressure to tackle congestion and air pollution problems caused by motor vehicles. Beijing, the capital city, is a good case to study how municipal governments address...

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Migration, Congestion and Growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017

This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration...

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Gatekeeping under congestion : an empirical study of referral errors in the emergency department

Freeman, Michael; Robinson, Susan; Scholtes, Stefan - 2017 - Revised version of 2015/77/TOM

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Green supply chain management using the queuing theory to handle congestion and reduce energy consumption and emissions from supply chain transportation fleet

Aziziankohan, Arvin; Jolai, Fariborz; Khalilzadeh, Mohammad - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 10 (2017) 2, pp. 213-236

Purpose: Nowadays, governments and people pay more attention to use green products due to environmental pollution, irreplaceable energy and shortage of resources. Green products are resulted from the application of green supply chain management strategies to the organizations' performance...

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