Introduction to the fourth industrial revolution -- Global supply chain engineering definitions -- Evaluating the impact of sustainability and pipeline quality on the global crude oil supply chain -- Forecasting in global supply chain engineering -- Inventory control -- ERP systems -- Logistics...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose and support a model to predict the effectiveness of teams. Design/methodology/approach – The literature provides a wide variety of variables or constructs to measure the effectiveness of a team. The article proposes a mathematical model to...

Many companies struggle with justifying the cost of quality within their supply chain. Outsourcing suppliers to countries such as China has become popular in recent years due to the fact it appears to be more profitable. These outsource decisions do not effectively determine the impacts of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically the effects of quality management practices on operational and business performance. Design/methodology/approach – A reliable and valid survey instrument was used for data gathering from managers in the petroleum industry. A...

Resource management decisions influence not only the output of the economy but also the distribution of utility between groups within the community. The theory of cost benefit analysis provides a means of incorporating distributional changes into the decision making calculus through the...

Choice Experiments in Developing Countries is an invaluable one-stop presentation of the best-practice case studies implementing the choice experiment method in developing countries. It highlights the theoretical and practical issues that should be taken into consideration when applying this...