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...

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...

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...

The construction industry has a crucial place in any country's economy. However, compared to other sectors, construction companies have been relatively slow to adopt new technologies, while most companies in different sectors have already begun to adopt the latest technologies to renovate their...

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...

The world economy has become more and more globalized as firms have organized production along global value chains. But more recently, globalization has stalled. This paper shows that higher uncertainty, in combination with better automation technologies, has likely contributed to that trend...

Global competition has created multinational supply chains where raw materials production, marketing, and consumption can be in different countries in order to achieve cost-effective production and higher customer service levels by taking a systems approach to supply chain management. Therefore,...

In some applications, one needs not only to determine the relevant features but also provide a preferential ordering among the set of relevant features by weights. This paper presents a novel Hybrid Genetic Local Search Algorithm (HGA) in combination with the k-nearest neighbor classifier for...

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...