Forest industry has undergone profound changes since the 1990s. Industry-level consolidation and the rise in international investments are the most noticeable features of this process. Based on reviewing internationalization from internalization and transaction cost, resource based, industrial...

This paper examines the competitive consequences of bank mergers and acquisitions with particular reference to the Wallis Inquiry into the Australian Financial System in 1996. The Government responded by adopting a four pillars policy preventing mergers among the four major banks. Using the...

This paper examines the efficiency consequences of bank mergers and acquisitions with particular reference to the 'four pillars' policy preventing mergers among the four major banks. Using data envelopment analysis, the technical efficiencies of banks operating in Australia over the period from...

This paper presents a generalized stochastic Petri-net model for performance analysis and allocation optimization of a repair system with interchangeable inventory. A repair system with interchangeable-inventory is an important type of repair-service, which features components that are assembled...

The aim of this study is to present some measures of the performance of banks operating in Australia since the deregulation of the Australian financial system in early 1980s; including the periods of financial market instability (the early 1990s and mid to late 2000s). In undertaking this...

In this paper we evaluate three projects with the participation of 40 supplier firms in several Chinese coastal provinces representing multi-stakeholder efforts to provide alternative channels through which workers can voice their concerns. The supplier firms took on these projects to reduce...

In this article, the statistical properties for the renormalized permeability obtained from the renormalization of the correlated permeability field are investigated. In contrast to the uncorrelated porous media, the scaling of the variance of the renormalized permeability field exhibits a...

Farmer innovation diffusion (FID) in the developing world is not simply the adoption of an innovation made by farmers, but a process of communication and cooperation between farmers, governments, and other stakeholders. While increasing attention has been paid to farmer innovation, little is...