Purpose: This paper aims to assess and prioritize manufacturing companies in the healthcare industry based on critical success factors (CSFs) of their reverse logistics (RL). The research involves seven medical device companies located in the Tehran Province, Iran. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the voluntary horizontal M&A impact on operating performance in Nigeria between 1995 and 2012 under different complementary approaches. Design/methodology/approach: Residual income valuation (RIV), economic value-added (EVA), data envelopment...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to seek to fill the gaps found in the literature to understand why and how the partnerships are formed and to map the dynamics of partnership networks of Brazilian electricity companies. Design/methodology/approach: To map the dynamics of partnership...

Apresenta-se, neste artigo, um modelo de otimização para avaliar a viabilidade da utilização de dutos para a distribuição do etanol no Brasil. Primeiramente, houve a análise dos volumes captados em dutos existentes; depois, a análise dos volumes em locais ainda sem rede dutoviária....

This paper presents an efficiency analysis of Brazilian bulk terminals built upon the conjoint use of Data Envelopment Analysis and the bootstrapping technique. Confidence intervals and bias corrected central estimates were used as cornerstone tools, not only to test for significant differences...