<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper discusses two important concepts—internationalization and the international marketing of higher education—and how they influence international students' choice of Canadian universities. The paper is based on two studies: one on 140 East Asian international graduate...

Traditionally, raising the level of technology is considered the most effective way to improve productivity. Nevertheless, without the support of sound management systems, the contribution of technology to productivity is limited. In a sample of fifteen machinery firms, this paper calculates...

This paper develops the integrated inventory models with permissible delay in payment, in which customers' demand is sensitive to the buyer's price. The models consider the two-level trade credit policy in the vendor-buyer and buyer-customer relationships in supply chain management. A simple...

In contrast to the classical newsboy-style problem, this paper develops a model for the multiple-item budget-constraint newsboy problem considering a reservation policy to meet marketing needs. A discount rate is provided to those customers who are willing to make a reservation. In addition to...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven approach in processing new product development (NPD) to maximize customer satisfaction. Determining the fulfillment levels of the "hows", including design requirements (DRs), part characteristics (PCs), process parameters (PPs) and...

Vendor-buyer models for trade credit issues in the existing literature always consider the items produced as perfect. However, a number of items in a lot may be of imperfect quality. This paper extends Chen and Kang's [2007. Integrated vendor-buyer cooperative models with variant permissible...