Purpose: Advanced Planning Systems (APS) can contribute to improved decision-making and enhanced efficiency along complex food supply chains. This paper presents a systematic literature review of supply chain planning (SCP) in the food industry. In particular, the literature on three...

Many performance measures, such as the classic Sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of mutual funds with skewed return distributions. Common causes for skewness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio manager. In this...

There is increasing interest in the resilience of supply chains given the growing awareness of their vulnerabilities to natural and man-made events. Covid-19 is one recent example where supply chain vulnerabilities have been exposed. In the academic literature, there has been limited...

Using qualitative methodology in the form of semi-structured and in-depth interviews, this paper aims to understand the nature of relationship among hotel housekeeping managers, their partner agency managers, and their flexible workers. Based upon the interviewees’ responses and other...

Replaced with revised version of paper on 09/29/09. Former title: Mergers, Price Competition for the U.S. Carbonated Soft Drink Industry

Consumer demand analysis attracts considerable attention. It remains an open question, however, whether estimating demand with aggregate data is reliable when disaggregate store-level data is given. Demand models may produce biased results when applied to data aggregated across stores with...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to OM Practice Contingency Research by describing the complexity of projects. Complexity is recognised as a key independent (con-tingent) variable that impacts on many subsequent decisions in the practice of managing pro-jects. Methodology:...