Supply chain management involves the selection, coordination and motivation of independently operated suppliers …. However the central planner's perspective in operations management translates poorly to vertically separated chains, where … and information asymmetry is modelled. A repeated investment-production game with coordinator commitment in supplier …

to this model, chief among them credibly signaling information about product quality to a pool of small, uninformed … quality by setting a high target that is distorted above the full information optimal level. While a separating equilibrium …

reliance. The model is aimed at complex improvement of management of the evaluation, selection processes for public and private …

match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that …We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

Quality management is a management domain very discussed and disputed nowadays and this is the first sign it is a very … modern, needed and present concept in theory and practice. Some are seeing it as a solution to prepare things in the way they …. The application of quality management is a quality management system that has to be designed, developed and implemented to …

The management of waste water had become a real issue for the EU in the last years.Specialists have been trying to … Management featuring high originality and bringsnew ways to build, maintain, supervise and repair the sewage. Also, it is a fact … that the watertemperature in the sewage is varying from 8 to 18 degrees. The solution for using this heat is to put onthe …

We can look at the planning as the first function of the management because it will take place before the other … management and strategic marketing as a process, made up of successive stages (phases), being in interdependent relations. The …

-term decisions, such as investment decisions or innovative capacity. The aim is to provide information on firm-internal management …This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU …. The paper sheds light on management and trading practices, abatement behaviour, and the impact of the EU ETS on long …

In this paper we account for observed management practice in the estimation of aproduction function. In our model … management practice is observable and we allow it toaffect output directly (neutral shift) and indirectly by affecting input … (in)efficiency do not correlate highly with observedmanagement. We also find that management affects output both directly …

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general … management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog … productionfunction. Time and management induced technical change are then defined interms of these general indices. For comparison, we …