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square method. Outcomes signified that the factors that influence evaluation of the supplier are quality, cost, delivery and … supplier relationship management. Findings: The study depicted that quality and cost factors for supplier evaluation are … quality, cost and delivery as the factors for evaluating the suppliers. But for a company it is quintessential to have good …
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This paper focuses on the effect of foreign presence in the services sector on the productivity growth of downstream customers in the manufacturing sector in six EU new member countries in the course of their accession to the European Union. For this purpose, the analysis combines firm-level...
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Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
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, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …
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point in this study is the concept of cost per point of scale. Once calculated, forecasts till 2050 have been estimated …
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Demand for hospital inpatient care varies in a consistent way. However, a part of this variability is unpredictable. Hospitals react to this situation by holding standby capacity in order to be prepared to meet unanticipated surges in demand. This paper examines the production responses to...
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determining R&D per patent investments, economies of scale in knowledge production, and the cost of (further) specialization …
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architectures and the cost implications of a network sharing model are described. Moreover, the minimum price of the access line …
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Small vineyard holdings become profitable in a market increasingly globalized, but through a process of structural adjustment supported by external and internal funds, which at this stage is essentially technical modernization in conditions of optimum size training structures, so that it can be...
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completely back-ordered for the buyer. With these assumptions, the annual cost function of JELS is minimized. At the end, a …
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