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Performance analysis of the closed loop supply chain

Asif, Farazee MA; Bianchi, Carmine; Rashid, Amir; … - In: Journal of Remanufacturing 2 (2012), pp. 1-21

Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...

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Effects of Financial Market Imperfections on Indian Firms' Exporting Behavior

Ito, Hiro; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko - 2011

Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial … India still does not allow the financial system to meet the stronger demand for funds by firms, especially small ones …

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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective

van Ark, Bart - 2008

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

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Identifying High Growth Firms in India: An Alternative Approach

Aggarwal, Aradhna; Sato, Takahiro - 2015

Over the past two decades, considerable interest has grown in high growth firms (HGFs). However, the concept of HGFs still remains controversial. One of the most controversial issues is size and age of these firms. The present study argues that the current literature on HGFs may offer little...

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A Generalization of the Calendar Time Portfolio Approach and the Performance of Private Investors

Hoechle, Daniel; Zimmermann, Heinz - 2007

We present a regression-based generalization of the calendar time portfolio approach which allowsfor the inclusion of continuous and multivariate investor or firm characteristics in the analysis. Ourmethod is simple to apply and it ensures that the statistical results are heteroscedasticity...

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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures

Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2008

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...

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Performance measurement and incentive plans

Kauhanen, Antti; Napari, Sami - 2010

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of...

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Icelandic development assistance: A comparative assessment

Thorvaldsson, Sverrir Kristjan - 2010

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Early Versus Late Effort in Dynamic Agencies with Unverifiable Information

Schöndube, Jens Robert - In: BuR - Business Research 1 (2008) 2, pp. 165-186

In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...

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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo - 2006

Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...

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