A safety planning and control model (SPC) has been integrated into the production planning and control process. The model integrates safety into three hierarchical levels of production control. Safety long-term planning starts with the preliminary hazard analysis (PHA) of construction processes....

Purpose – The development of alternative investment has not yet been accompanied by genuine consideration of the specific characteristics of the risks and returns of hedge funds with regard to the provision of information to investors. To fill the gap, in 2004 EDHEC launched an international...

Telecom supply chains are subject to instabilities and uncertainties that make substantial the risks handled by the chain actors. This paper demonstrates that the exchange or sharing of reliable information improves both actors' and SC's performance. In particular, this paper presents a system...

The foundation of popular approaches to portfolio construction and performance measurement lies in the mean-variance framework of Markowitz (1952, 1959). However, the suitability of such approaches in practice is questionable in light of considerable evidence of non-normalities in returns. This...