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Reverse Logistics Network Structures and Design

Fleischmann, Moritz - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Logistics network design is commonly recognized as a strategic supply chain issue of prime importance. The location of production facilities, storage concepts, and transportation strategies are major determinants of supply chain performance. This chapter considers logistics network design for...

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Dataset of the Refrigerator Case: design of closed loop supply chains

Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; Krikke, Krikke, H.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

This paper contains the dataset for the refrigerator case concerning the design of a production and return network for refrigerators. Section 1 emphasises the major changes to the problem structure and assumptions used by Umeda et al. (1999). Section 2 contains the parameter settings. Section 3...

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Design of Closed Loop Supply Chains

Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline Bloemhof; Krikke, Krikke, H.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Increased concern for the environment has lead to new techniques to design products and supply chains that are both economically and ecologically feasible. This paper deals with the product - and corresponding supply chain design for a refrigerator. Literature study shows that there are many...

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Innovation,Flexibility, Change-Premises of Organizational Development

Todorut, Amalia Venera - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …

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Management of IT company – a theoretical and empirical approach

Pelinescu, Bogdan - In: Revista de Economie Industriala (Journal of Industrial … 6 (2008) 2, pp. 50-63

The IT revolution generated important changes on society and firms. Under these circumstances, the companies’ management reaches to the five-generation assuring, base on plurality, fast decisions making, and an equal treatment of the employers taking into consideration the high level of their...

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In Search of the Silver Bullet for Productivity Growth: A Review Article of The Power of Productivity and Transforming the European Economy

Ark, Bart van - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 79-86

This article reviews The Power of Productivity by William W. Lewis and Transforming the European Economy by Martin Neil Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard. While Lewis postulates a single silver bullet for productivity growth, namely the freedom of consumers, Baily and Kirkegaard advocate a broader...

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Management Accounting in Activity Networks

Jordan, James S - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

Modern management accounting information systems trace cost to a greater level of detail than did their predecessors. Nonetheless, the basic ingredient of accounting information continues to be the measurable transaction, actual or budgeted, rather than the more subjective concepts of marginal...

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Essays in Just-in-Time Manufacturing Firm Value, Product Variety, and Supplier Coordination

Nanda, D. - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business … - 1997

Over the last decade new manufacturing methods and techniques have focused on reducing waste in production tasks. Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing is one of the most popular new technologies adopted. This dissertation describes the impact of Just-In-Time manufacturing on firm value, product...

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Internationalization of the R&D Activity – Organizational Forms and Concepts

Gorcheva, Tania - In: Economic Studies journal (2004) 2, pp. 109-145

corporate costs for innovations and to form bigger flexibility, which will contribute for acquiring competitive advantages. The …

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Reorganization of Firms and Productivity: A Treatment Effects Approach

Carstensen, Vivian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2002

This paper addresses the question of organization of work and efficient reorganization. An emerging literature is basically concerned with the polar model of high involvement (holistic) vs. traditional (Tayloristic) work organizations. This paper extends in two ways: First, the polar case is...

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