Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación tiene como objetivo describir y analizar la innovación en las pequeñas y medianas empresas manufactureras ubicadas en Puebla, México. Por lo tanto la pregunta central de la misma es ¿Cuáles son los factores determinantes de la innovación en las...

Spanish Abstract: El trabajo desarrolla un análisis de las particularidades existentes en la transferencia de conocimientos tácitos en el trabajo desarrollado por las personas (Trabajadores directos) que prestan sus servicios en la industria maquiladora en las MIPYME localizadas en Tehuacán y...

Spanish Abstract: El trabajo desarrolla un análisis de las particularidades existentes en la transferencia de conocimientos tácitos en el trabajo desarrollado por las personas (Trabajadores directos) que prestan sus servicios en la industria maquiladora en las MIPYME localizadas en Tehuacán y...

This paper is the first part of a project that will examine the role of MNCs in the transfer of FMS technology. The paper is the result of a hypotheses generating phase conducted largely through a literature review. Multinational corporations (MNCs) are the principal agents of international...

Spanish Abstract: Hoy en día la innovación dentro de las empresas se ha convertido en un reto estratégico que afrontan las empresas, ya que a medida que la presión competitiva aumenta y el mercado se vuelve más exigente, las empresas deben de ajustar continuamente sus procesos internos de...

Inventory control is among the most important topics in operations research because of large investments in inventory and their effect on the profitability of the firms. A systematic analysis of inventory problems began with the development of the classical EOQ formula of Ford W. Harris in 1913,...

A mixed optimization technique for optimal machine replacement is presented which allows much more flexibility than previous models. Optimal purchase, maintenance and sale of a given machine between any two given points in time is treated as a subproblem, which one may choose to solve via...

In a multiperiod decision problem it is usually the decisions in the first or first few periods that are of immediate importance to the manager. Decision/Forecast horizon (DH/FH) research deals with the question of whether optimal decisions in the first or first few periods (known as DH) can be...

We establish the computational complexity of the problem of minimizing makespan in a flowshop, where each jobs requires a pallet the entire time, from the start of its first operation until the completion of the last operation. We prove that the problem is NP-hard in the strong sense for m =2...

Cooperative advertising is a key incentive offered by a manufacturer to influence retailers' promotional decisions. We study cooperative advertising in a dynamic retail duopoly where a manufacturer sells his product through two competing retailers. We model the problem as a Stackelberg...