Global production or value networks have gained significantly in importance as organizational forms of economic …

Standard (SDMX) - seen as central to a global metadata management framework for social data and official statistics. It also … production to secondary analysis by researchers or use by policy makers and other key stakeholders. The paper provides an …

observed that the real problem with achieving lean success was not management commitment but their ignorance of what they …, management knowledge needs active consideration in the implementation phase. Management knowledge is particularly significant in … explicitly, including the specific management commitments. …

honours. We therefore look at the award life cycle achievements of the 1901 to 2000 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and … Cambridge excel in Physics, while Columbia educated laureates dominate in Physiology or Medicine. …

Maintenance activities can have a large impact on the performance of a production process and promised delivery dates …. Therefore, maintenance and production planning should be handled as an integrated problem. In this paper, the problem of … affected by stochastic machine failures which are assumed to result in long production stops. To avoid this, preventive …

We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth … model of expanding product varieties. This contrasts with the existingliterature, which ignores maintenance costs and uses … the model of quality improvements todescribe obsolescence. If the maintenance costs become too high, the operating profits …

This paper presents a generic modeling framework to simultaneously decide about production quantities and maintenance … wear and tear. For this reason frequent maintenance activities need to be coordinated with the production operations in … vs. sequential decisions about production and maintenance in the case of intensive wear and tear. …

effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed …