The paper analyzes the relations among the manufacturing firm's innovativeness, operations priorities, and corporate performance. As opposed to common practice in the literature in which these relations are analyzed on a dichotomous (High vs. Low) classification of innovativeness mostly times...

Innovation is broadly seen as an essential component of competitiveness, embedded in the organizational structures, processes, products, and services within a firm. The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of the organizational, process, product, and marketing innovations on the...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the direct and interactive effects of organizational support and human capital on the innovative performance of companies. Individual effects of the organizational support dimensions, namely: management support for generating and...

Pazar oryantasyonu, musterilerin beklenti ve ihtiyaclarini anlamaya, tatmin etmeye ve onlara verilen degeri azami kilmaya yonelik organizasyonel faaliyetlerin butunudur. Bu calismada musteri odaklilik, rakip odaklilik ve departmanlar arasi koordinasyon pazar oryantasyonunun bilesenleri olarak...

Holger Görg und Saskia Mösle, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, halten ein komplettes Verschwinden von globalen Wertschöpfungsketten für unwahrscheinlich. Anzunehmen sei eher, dass Unternehmen die Kosten von Produktionsverlagerungen ins Ausland im Vergleich zur eigenen Herstellung sowie...

Preventive health care is of utmost importance to governments since they can make massive savings on health care expenditure and promote the well-being of the society. Preventive care includes many services such as cancer screenings, vaccinations, hepatitis screenings, and smoking cessation...

Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) along with fuzzy set theory has been used extensively in the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) process in which fuzzy numbers are utilized to represent human judgments more realistically. Over the past couple of decades, numerous articles have been...

In this paper we present a novel transshipment problem for a large apparel retailer that operates an extensive retail network. Our problem is inspired by the logistics operations of a very large fast fashion retailer in Turkey, LC Waikiki, with over 450 retail branches and thousands of products....

Preventive health care is unlike healthcare for acute ailments, as people are less alert to their unknown medical problems. In order to motivate public and to attain desired participation levels for preventive programs, the attractiveness of the health care facility is a majör concern. Health...

In this paper a comprehensive framework that maximizes advertising revenues of a company in a personalized advertisement setting is presented. The research was motivated from a real life problem faced by a company that develops a web based 3-D virtual reality social platform. The objective of...