Purpose: The objective of this paper was to determine the actual needs of customers in 3 groups: passenger cars, buses, and truck refrigerators who bring their vehicles to the Service Center to be air conditioner repaired. Design/methodology/approach: We investigated at how variables including...

The large retail chains represent the main distribution channel for wine sales in Italy. Retailers, therefore, define the wine supply of their points-of-sale based on their own commercial strategies, taking into account evolving consumer demand, producer characteristics, and product types. Wine...

An (s, S) inventory system with service facilities has been investigated in this study. Demands arrive as a Poisson process with parameter λ (0) to an infinite capacity pool at any given time t. When the inventory is greater than the buffer size a customer will transfer to the buffer with rate...

The article is generally theoretical in nature and is devoted to the consideration of the possibility of using the applied strategic analysis of personnel training and development developed by its author, based on the balanced scorecard component of the same name, in the process of studying the...

Social welfare has been believed to be a trickle-down effect of power sector reform policies, and there have been extensive debates on whether the trickle-down happens in reality. Such perceived benefits are arguably not fully realised in an emerging economy like India, where distribution...

The study explains in particular the different forms of legal protection required by international IPR agreements, including the system of plant breeders' rights in the 1978 and 1991 UPOV Acts, the choice between patent and sui generis protection created by article 27.3(b) of the TRIPs Agreement...

We analyze how precautionary motives affect the decisions of a risk averseagent on saving, labor supply and retirement. In a setting where there is arandom shock which affects agent disutility from work, we show thatuncertainty directly affects retirement age and saving, but leaves laborsupply...