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What factors determine the number of trading partners?
Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 428-441
The purpose of this paper is to provide a simple model to explain buyer–supplier relationships and identify factors … that determine the chosen number of trading partners. We show that the optimal number of partners for a supplier is small … model by incorporating the supplier's quality investment and show that the investment level can be higher when the number of …
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Bargaining power and supply base diversification
WAN, Zhixi; Beil, Damian R. - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2009
In this paper, the authors examine a supply base diversification problem faced by a buyer who periodically holds auctions to award short term supply contracts among a cohort of suppliers (i.e., the supply base). To mitigate significant cost shocks to procurement, the buyer can diversify her...
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Le contrôle des projets d’innovation de haute technologie
Persiaux, François; Berland, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
Management control is a very difficult task when applied to innovation. For some researchers, it's even an impossible mission. Despite this, our paper presents a theoretical framework issued from a literature review and based on Simons research (1995). This framework is used to understand how...
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Inventory Management in Russian Economy: Crisis and Post-crisis Adjustment
Zamaraev, B.; A. Nazarova. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 3 (2013)
The article considers the stock changes and their relationship to changes in economic activity. Comprehensive statistical analysis covers accounting data, which are compiled on a quarterly basis, in relation with annual data of the system of national accounts. Methodological approaches to using...
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Usage of Business Intelligence Solutions for the Analysis of Deviations in the Use of the Standard Cost Method
Luminiþa, ªerbãnescu; Marian, Þaicu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIII (2013) 1, pp. 658-662
Knowing deviations and analysing them is useful to managers for planning and control. In the current circumstances, managers have a multitude of information, which sometimes lead to informational suffocation. For the analysis of deviations, BI solutions such as QlikView can be used. The article...
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Developed Model for Debts Relief Decision Based on Financial and Accounting Reports Applied on PORT TRANS EUROPE SA
RADU, Riana Iren; ISAI, Violeta - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2013) 3, pp. 33-36
Business agents are today facing with a dynamic economic environment transformed by the direct effects of the economic crisis. In these circumstances the managers of the entities are forced to adapt to the economic activities by various types of decisions. A special attention is paid to...
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Economic Benefit Assignment in Environmental Cost Allocation: Toward a Suggestion Model
Ngwakwe, Collins C. - In: Managing Global Transitions 10 (2012) 3 (Fall), pp. 283-299
This paper aims to suggest a model to reward a ‘dirty product’ which has the potential to offer sales promotion services to other ‘clean products’ in a multiple product firm. The paper suggests a model – economic benefit assignment (EBA) for apportionment of direct waste costs where a...
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Environmental Management Practices and Firm Performance in a South African Mining Firm
Nyirenda, Gibson; Ngwakwe, Collins C.; Ambe, Cosmas M. - In: Managing Global Transitions 11 (2013) 3 (Fall), pp. 243-260
This paper examines the impact of environmental management practices on the financial performance of a South African mining firm. The major aim of this paper is to investigate whether such practices have a close relationship with the mining firm’s financial performance (represented by return...
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Enfoques de estudio y modelos de investigación sobre calidad y resultados: una revisión crítica
Vinuesa, Marín; María, Luz - In: Cuadernos de Gestión (2009)
[ES] El presente estudio sintetiza las contribuciones realizadas en la investigación sobre la calidad y su relación con los resultados. La revisión se lleva a cabo considerando la variada casuística que se ha utilizado en el diseño de los trabajos analizados, desde distintas medidas para...
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THE TRANSPARENCY IN THE REPORTING OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL: BETWEEN THE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY AND THE STAKEHOLDERS' REQUIREMENTS
Roxana-Manuela, Dicu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 609-615
The increasingly ample orientation of the companies towards the intellectual capital is based on the rediscovery of this resource with (almost) unlimited potential, generating economic benefits for a company. Given its importance, the information needs of stakeholders on this line have...
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