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Impact of Forecasting Method Selection and Information Sharing on Supply Chain Performance.

Pan, Youqin - 2009

Effective supply chain management gains much attention from industry and academia because it helps firms across a supply chain to reduce cost and improve customer service level efficiently. Focusing on one of the key challenges of the supply chains, namely, demand uncertainty, this dissertation...

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The development and implementation status of RFID in China

Scavarda, A; O'Neill, P; Scavarda, L; Wang, X - 2009

China offers a great arena for research in this field, as it is one of the most significant manufacturing players in the … and implementation of RFID in China. To achieve this goal, 18 interviews were conducted within five Chinese participant …

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Drivers and obstacles of outsourcing practices in China

Lau, C; Zhang, J - 2006

PURPOSE - To explore the key factors that motivate organizations in China to outsource and the obstacles these … approach was adopted with primary data collected through in-depth interviews with six companies in China and secondary data … drivers and obstacles of outsourcing. FINDINGS - Economic factor is a strong motivation for outsourcing in China, of which …

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Efficient development of complex statecharts

Steffen Prochnow - 2008

Modeling systems based on graphical formalisms, such as Statecharts, has become standard practice in the design of embedded devices. Using paradigms established so far often results in complex models that are difficult to comprehend and maintain. To overcome this, we present a methodology to...

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Determinants of RFID Technology Adoption Intention in the Saudi Retail Industry: an Empirical Study

Alqahtani, Salem; Wamba, S. F. - 2012

Drawing both on innovation diffusion theory and Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, this paper assesses the influence of a set of determinants on the intention of Saudi Arabian retail firms to adopt RFID technology. In this study, a two-phase, multi-method approach was used. In the...

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The effects of urban redevelopment on households

Marti, Daniel Lee - 2009

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Firm Innovativeness in SMEs: Lessons from Japan

Gilbert, D - 2007

Fostering greater firm innovativeness may just be the most critical advantage organisations must develop to effectively compete in the markets of not only today, but those of tomorrow as well. The connection between volatile and dynamic environments and the need for firms to be more innovative...

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Who has really paid for the Reconstruction of East Germany? Expected and Realized Returns on Real Estate Investments in East and West Germany in the 1990s

Kiesewetter, Dirk; Bensemann, Tina; Schönemann, Kristin - 2009

We evaluate the profitability of investments in residential property in Germany after unification with a focus on the comparison of East and West Germany. Calculations are carried out for (1) the after-tax return an investor might have expected at the beginning of the 1990s, and (2) the...

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Internetbasierte Unternehmenskooperationen als Wettbewerbsfaktor für den deutschen Mittelstand

Englert, Jürgen - 2000

Auch kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen werden zunehmend mit den Auswirkungen eines globaleren Wettbewerbs und dem Einsatz des Internet als wichtigem Wirtschaftsfaktor konfrontiert, so daß diese gezwungen sind ihre Unternehmensstrategien an die neuen ökonomischen Gegebenheiten...

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Quality Assurance Systems in the Agri-Food Chain ; Qualitätssicherungssysteme in der Agri-Food Chain

Schulze, Holger - 2013

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