Purpose: This research studies how the security-related outsourcing strategies and negotiation power of the public sector and the military and the relevant logistics service providers influence for indirect logistics costs. Design/methodology/approach: A tentative model was devised from...

Technological development has contributed to transformation of the shopping experience. Consumers are willing to do their shopping using various technologies. This paper discusses the use of Internet as a tool for browsing offers and making online purchases. It has used a measuring model...

The last financial crisis, the role of financial institution in this process and the big scale of public aid to the financial institutions generate many ideas of introduction of new additional tax on financial institutions. There are proposals of financial transaction tax, financial activity tax...

Purpose (mandatory): The purpose of this paper is to show analytically that cash flow –based project analysis of private investors and cost-benefit analysis of the public sector conflict in many points in public-private partnership projects. Design/methodology/approach (mandatory): The method...

Purpose: In most companies achieving or delivering quality product or service becomes a complex task especially when setting up a new production process; every time focusing on project completion, meeting deadlines and quality check at the end of the production. Two types of quality checks can...

The importance of project management has been increasing in the face of the changing environment, new challenges, globalization and specialization in global economy. This means that the achievement of the final objective of a project on schedule and on budget becomes a key challenge for many...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the link between reaching a certain level of Project Management Maturity by the company and its projects cost performance. Design/methodology/approach: The world-wide study was conducted in order to measure the influence of the Project...

Purpose: The strategic selection of projects deals with the determination of a strategic fit and prioritization. The impact of the project selection process obviously shows on the future profits and growth of an organization. Since the organization is much relied on that growth, this study is...

Project management and projects typically generate a lot of knowledge but unfortunately a formal closure to collect, catalog and archive the documents / information will not be executed. The causes of this improper closure of the project is generally due to the senior management that considers...

It is a conceptual paper that is supported by a case study done in a project oriented company and its subject matters are related to such business processes as project performance assessment, knowledge management, corporate governance through translating strategy into project operational goals,...