The wine industry faces distinctive supply chain challenges, including high product variety, export market fragmentation, and seasonal production, all of which contribute to demand uncertainty. Importantly, this uncertainty is not only externally driven but also amplified by tactical and...

The green energy transition and its boost to the deployment of renewable energy can offer a unique opportunity for rural areas to benefit from their natural resources. The present study aims to provide a quantitative assessment of the technical potential of renewable energy sources in the EU's...

Production is a sequence of steps that can be executed (1) manually, (2) augmented with AI, or (3) fully automated within contiguous AI-executed steps called "chains." Firms optimally bundle steps into tasks and then jobs, trading off specialization gains against coordination costs. We...

This study presents a production inventory model where demand is considered a function of the average consumption of perishable products by the diabetic population. Food products are generally subject to spoilage over time, and various preservation technologies are used to keep them in good...

This scientific paper explores operational management strategies aimed at achieving sustainable productivity growth in manufacturing organizations. Productivity, a key driver of competitiveness and success, is intricately linked to the concept of sustainability in today's dynamic business world....

This report analyzes data collected in Myanmar during the second growing season since the military takeover, showing an 18 per cent increase from 40,100 to 47,100 hectares. At 1,080 metric tons today, the potential yield is at its highest since 2001. Following the recent decline of opium...

This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor...

New and shifting legal, market and financial dynamics have increased the pressure on firms in manufacturing industries to implement processes for developing and marketing sustainable products. The environmental and social impacts of products and services depend on how they interact with the...

"This Element does not discuss every aspect of the economy. Rather, it focuses on the first stage of an economic cycle − that of production. Two of the major guiding questions are: What products were the Bronze Age palatial states concerned with producing in surplus? And how did the palatial...

Produzieren in Zeiten des Klimawandels: Nachhaltig und resilient Herausforderungen meisternBisherige Geschäftsmodelle stoßen an ihre Grenzen! Der Druck zur De-Fossilisierung sowie zur Einführung von ressourceneffizienten und regenerativen Prozessen steigt. Die Anforderungen an produzierende...

1. Green Manufacturing in Industry 5.0: Towards Sustainable Industrial Transformation -- 2. Transforming Malaysia's Textile Industry: Sustainable Manufacturing in the Industry 5.0 Era -- 3. Green Manufacturing: Real-Time Monitoring with Smart Sensors for Enhanced Energy Efficiency -- 4. Green...

The high price of cooking oil in Indonesia has been under the spotlight from the fourth quarter of 2021 up to the beginning of 2022. Between March and December 2021, Index BU RT 1 recorded a 56% price increase that peaked at IDR 20,667/liter in December. Although the price of cooking oil has...

Against the background of political and academic debates around strategies to slow down global warming, the shift to electro-mobility is broadly perceived as a key strategy, particular in the Global North but also countries such as China. There are high expectations in electric vehicles (EVs)...

Der gesellschaftliche, politische sowie rechtliche Druck zur Transformation von Unternehmen hin zu nachhaltigen Geschäftsmodellen wächst stetig an. Insbesondere die Automobilindustrie steht aufgrund der Luftverschmutzung in Großstädten durch Fahrzeuge im Fokus der öffentlichen...

We provide a novel, supply network-based perspective on inventory productivity and incentives for its improvement. Using data from 2003 to 2019, we find that inventory productivity reduces materially and statistically significantly for firms located upstream in the supply network, and increases...

This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the aggregation and estimation of output and inputs and the estimation of...

An increase in the riskiness of a technology will raise economy-wide expected output: the technology can be used intensively if its productivity realization is large and curtailed otherwise. Some investment in even the riskiest technologies can therefore bring Pareto improvements. The observed...

This paper focuses on the issues of purchase of primary parts, production planning, and inventory management in primary and secondary warehouses under demand uncertainty simultaneously. The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal volume of purchasing primary parts from different...

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll taxes to estimate their incidence and investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects on employee earnings. As payroll taxes increase, firms...

Every organization's response to environmental challenges is to improve quality by adopting modern concepts and a new approach to quality. This includes, of course, the developed and implemented quality management systems. Ensuring quality and managing it today is an inevitability, so a great...

Die kapitalistische Produktionsweise ist abhängig von einem Außen, das sie über das Hineinholen von Ressourcen und Auslagern von Kosten in Anspruch nimmt. Anna Saave unternimmt eine theoretisch versierte und elaborierte Analyse der komplexen Externalisierungs- und Einverleibungsprozesse des...