Innovation has long been considered crucial for companies to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace. Unfortunately, a solid understanding of the system of innovation does not exist. The literature lacks formal definitions and methodologies for the system of innovation. Many surrogates...

It is believed that the critical next step from examinations of operations and the environment is the study of sustainability and supply chains (Linton, Klassen, and Jayaraman (2007)). Environmental quality and preservation as well as meeting the stress of emission reductions is rapidly becoming...

The management and allocation of resources in large-scale engineering and operational systems has become increasingly complex as a result of both advances in information technology and the presence of system uncertainty. Recent technological and communication advances have provided increased...

Effective decision-making is a key prerequisite for a successful organization. Today's organizations are large and continue to grow in size and scope. This development leads to higher complexity in managing and controlling organizations. Consequentially, selecting the right course of action has...

Worldwide, the idea of "person-less" banks, and full-service (financial services) institutions which compete with "non-bank" financial services organizations, are becoming the new way of doing business. To meet global competition, the Canadian Financial Services Industry has a need to conduct...

Young novice drivers are at a significantly higher risk of having a fatal vehicle crash than experienced drivers. One of the main causes for this statistic is that these drivers lack risk perception skills . They have not developed the ability to efficiently perceive or predict risks while...

In this dissertation, I developed a unified complex network framework for environmental decision-making. I focused on complex network systems arising in the context of green logistics, including global supply chains, and electronic waste recycling. The framework that I developed is able to...

The exchange of goods and services is affected by pricing policies, of which there are two broad categories: posted-price mechanisms (take-it-or-leave-it pricing), and price-discovery mechanisms (auction pricing). In the past, companies fixed prices of a product for a relatively long time period;...

In this thesis, we analyze the effect that price postponement has on the performance and coordination of a two-stage supply chain facing consumer returns. In an extended news-vendor setting with a single product, a single manufacturer and a single retailer who faces stochastic and...

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...