, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …

episodes of financial distress and they also have an incentive to increase risk to exploit the cost-of-funds subsidy of … relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … higher levels of risk-taking. Studies of banking cost that ignore endogenous risk-taking find little evidence of scale …

square method. Outcomes signified that the factors that influence evaluation of the supplier are quality, cost, delivery and … supplier relationship management. Findings: The study depicted that quality and cost factors for supplier evaluation are … quality, cost and delivery as the factors for evaluating the suppliers. But for a company it is quintessential to have good …

determining R&D per patent investments, economies of scale in knowledge production, and the cost of (further) specialization …

debates often concentrate on cost- containment strategies and search for improved efficient resource allocation and equitable … progress, productivity, and cost: three important dimensions of the evolving modern healthcare systems. It provides a logical … integration of three strands of work linking healthcare cost to technology and research evidence on sectoral productivity …

logistics cost minimization.Design/methodology/approach: In order to optimize the safety stock level while minimizing logistics … costs, a nonlinear cost minimization safety stock model is developed in this paper and then it is applied in a real world … within the supply chain. Originality/value: In this research, two models of cost minimization and simulation have been …

services outsourcing had more important effect on labour costs than materials outsourcing. However, the depreciation cost …

majority of the firms fasten more importance to Quality as it ranks second. Cost is ranked as third, while Know-how is ranked … based on six domains namely quality, cost, delivery, flexibility, customer focus, and know-how. This research work gives …