Purpose: The goal of this work was to investigate the managerial practices of today to understand if Toyota is sheltering themselves from these newer practices or embracing them like most believe. Design/methodology/approach: This work utilizes a new form of data mining named Latent Semantic...

"Logistics management is one of the primal topics of Industrial Engineering. This book is the second volume of a three-volume series on global logistic management and focuses on recent developments and implementations of operations research techniques on some selected logistic problems in...