Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and contents of Islamic management practices and their consequent implications for human resource management (HRM) in Arab countries. In addition, it aims to examine the implications for multinational companies (MNCs) operating in...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the research work of managing returnable assets such as pallets by radio frequency identification (RFID) methods on a national scale. Design/methodology/approach - The project is an extension of an earlier project which tracks pallets and cartons through a...

Šiuolaikinės konkurencingos verslo įmonės susiduria su daugybe problemų, bandydamos atliki išsamią turimų duomenų analizę. Problemų kyla ne dėl to, kad nepakanka duomenų, o kaip tik atvirkščiai – duomenų bazėse saugomas vis didesnis kiekis informacijos, ko pasėkoje duomenų...

Duomenų kubo konstravimas yra laikui ir kompiuteriniams resursams imlus procesas. Nepaisant to, šis darbas turi būti atliktas norint pasinaudoti greitų užklausų iš ypatingai didelių OLAP kubų teikiamais privalumais . Telekomunikacijų bendrovės surenka didelius duomenų kiekius apie...

Background. Traditional 'data-led' information systems have created excessive amounts of poor-quality and poorly utilised data. The Health Information Systems Pilot Project (HISPP), a Western Cape project that started in 1996, initiated a process in one of its three pilot sites to model an...

The production structure of the lumber manufacturing sector in western Washington was investigated using a translog cost function with capital, labor, and sawlog inputs. Analyses were performed with a panel data set of biennial observations from 1972 to 2002 on a cross section of sixteen western...

The Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts a national inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size class that intersect a sampling transect with no...

Information on current forest condition is essential to assess and characterize resources and to support resource management and policy decisions. The 1998 Farm Bill mandates the US Forest Service to conduct annual inventories to provide annual updates of each state's forest. In annual...

Information on current forest condition is essential to assess and characterize resources and to support resource management and policy decisions. The 1998 Farm Bill mandates the US Forest Service to conduct annual inventories to provide annual updates of each state's forest. In annual...