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 – 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...

Purpose – To explore the impact of using metadata in finding and ranking web pages through search engines. Design/methodology/approach – The study has been divided into two phases. In phase one, the use of metadata schemes and the impact of overlapped documents have been examined by...

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....