Industrial Management & Data Systems
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Strategic partnering when the supply base is limited: a case study
Tập 101 Số 1 - Trang 47-52
This study considers a supply‐demand situation where a product has only a handful of supply firms and a large number of purchasing firms and compares the attitudes toward partnering of firms which are already in partnering relationships with those that are not. Noting that only 27 per cent of the buyers are currently in any alliance relationships, and most are not planning to be in one, the study ......
Women in Management
Tập 83 Số 7/8 - Trang 9-10
In the last decade the number of female managers increased dramatically, yet industry is still dominated by men and women are invariably paid less than their male counterparts.
HOW TO INTEGRATE NEW MEMBERS INTO A WORK TEAM EFFECTIVELY
Tập 88 Số 3/4 - Trang 20-22
Practical means are provided of integrating a new team member into an effective team. To be effective, teams must manage goals, roles, processes and relationships. Goals need to be held in common and be quantifiable. Roles of members need to be clearly stated for the process to be managed. The leader needs to be accepted, the decision‐making responsibilities need to be clear and communications nee......
A counterfeit network analyzer based on RFID and EPC
Tập 110 Số 7 - Trang 1018-1037
– The purpose of this paper is to focus on the design of a counterfeit network analyzer (CNA) for aggregating all the problematic product flows in order to discover any counterfeit distribution source, and to control the spread of counterfeit goods. The analyzer leverages radio frequency identification (RFID) information stored within the electronic product code (EPC) network., – The system archit......
Integration of Technologies: An Ultimate Decision‐making Aid
Tập 93 Số 1 - Trang 10-17
Shows how to introduce computer support for the implementation of
different decision‐making settings. Provides a comparison between
decision support and expert systems. Analyses the similarities and
dissimilarities of decision support systems (DSS) and expert systems
(ES) and presents a conceptual framework for the integration of these
two technologies. Numerous examples illustrate operationally i......
Technology Transfer — An International Two‐way Street
Tập 87 Số 7/8 - Trang 3-9
Britain produces about six per cent of the world's technology, but is one of the few net exporters of licensed technology. R&D spend in the UK is smaller than its main competitors, and more R&D is financed by government. The UK must continue to license aggressively overseas and “license‐in” technology in order to maintain its position. The British Technology Group operates effectively in t......
The development and empirical validation of an e‐based supply chain strategy optimization model
Tập 103 Số 5 - Trang 347-360
Examines the formulation of supply chain strategies in complex environments. Argues that current state‐of‐the‐art e‐business and supply chain management, combined into the concept of e‐SCM, as well as the use of transaction cost theory, network theory and resource‐based theory, altogether can be used to form a model for analyzing supply chains with the purpose of reducing the uncertainty of formul......
Understanding e‐business adoption across industries in European countries
Tập 110 Số 9 - Trang 1337-1354
– The paper seeks to investigate the factors that affect the adoption of e‐business by firms belonging to European Union (EU) countries, by comparing the effect across two different industries: telecommunications (telco) and tourism., – Data were collected from 2,459 firms belonging to EU27 countries across two industries. The data were analyzed by employing factorial analysis and relevant hypothe......
Integration of marketing domain and R&D domain in NPD design process
Tập 107 Số 6 - Trang 780-801
– To solve the trade‐offs between marketing and R&D domains and to minimize information loss in new product development (NPD), this study proposes an integrated design process as a new solution to the interface system between the two domains., – House of Quality integrated with multivariate statistical analysis is used for determining important design features. These design features are used a......
Is revamping your web site worthwhile?
Tập 105 Số 6 - Trang 737-751
– The purpose of this paper is to study how web site quality affects traffic performance., – An experimental design is employed to study how web quality affects traffic performance. A revamping of the experimental web site was used as the treatment, targeting visitors' perceived quality of the web site. Four traffic performance measures, page: views, visitor count, daily registrations, and average......