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Working Capital Management and Firms' Profitability in the Midst of an Economic Crisis
Axiotis, Dimitris; Hyz, Alina; Kalantonis, Petros - In: International Journal of Applied Management Sciences … 5 (2018) 2, pp. 66-80
performance in adverse economic circumstances. The results show positive relationship between profitability and cash conversion … cycle, firm's size, growth and leverage and negative relationship between profitability and components of cash conversion … cycle. Analysing the impact of the crisis it can observe that the companies can increase their profitability by reducing the …
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Does Effective Inventory Management Improve Profitability?: Empirical Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Shin, Hojung; Wood, Charles C.; Jun, Minjoon - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Supply … 9 (2016) 3, pp. 26-45
The present research investigates the effect of inventory performance on profitability. The objective is to find … empirical evidence for the theory that operational excellence in inventory management improves profitability in the long run. To … lower inventory level measured as the industry inventory-to-sales ratio has a positive effect on industry profitability …
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Increasing the Profitability of Students in MOOCs using Recommendation Systems
Jdidou, Youssef; Khaldi, Mohamed - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 4, pp. 75-85
recommendation systems in MOOCs to predict what students want more aiming to increase their profitability. In this paper, the authors …
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Critical Success Factors for Supplier Development and Buyer Supplier Relationship: Exploratory Factor Analysis
Sarang, Joshi P.; Bhasin, H V; Verma, Rakesh; Kharat, … - In: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 7 (2016) 1, pp. 18-38
supplier Relationship Improvement, Competitive Advantages and Profitability were formed with their respective items. The multi …
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Value Facilitation as Antecedent of Service Provider Profitability
Herzfeldt, Alexander Bogislav; Rastorguev, Eugenia; … - In: International Journal of Service Science, Management, … 7 (2016) 4, pp. 63-76
profitability now. Based on a qualitative study with 14 cloud service experts, the authors explore the relationship between cloud … service provider profitability and value facilitation, i.e., the capability to build up resources in advance of future … customer engagements. The authors' results indicate a positive relationship between cloud service profitability and value …
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Japanese R&D Profitability: Industry Production Function Estimation Using Panel Data
Yamada, Hirokazu; Nakayama, Yuji - In: International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented … 8 (2018) 2, pp. 16-29
This article examines the contribution to profit from research and development (R&D) using industry-level accounting panel data for eight industries in Japan from 1986 to 2012. Problematically, simple least-squares regression estimation of production functions, where the authors specify sales or...
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The Role of Individualization and Project Learning for Cloud Service Profitability
Herzfeldt, Alexander; Wolfenstetter, Thomas; Ertl, Christoph - In: Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 16 (2018) 2, pp. 64-82
markets in modern IT industry. As the market matures, many providers are struggling with profitability issues. Studies on … service delivery cost and profitability. The results indicate that while project learning merely helps to reduce service … delivery costs, service individualization positively affects profitability. …
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Towards Self Energy-Management and Sustainable Citizens' Engagement in Local Energy Efficiency Agenda
Scorza, Francesco - In: International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 44-53
EU 2020 targets and global challenges concerning energy efficiency in public and private sectors generated a great number of local and sectorial approaches mainly oriented to investment promotion in energy technologies including buildings renovations. RES diffusion also generated impacts on...
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Assessing the Correlation Between Environmental Awareness and Variability of Employees' Positions in Aviation and Aerospace Industries
Maleviti, Eva; Stamoulis, Evangelos - In: International Journal of Aviation Systems, Operations … 3 (2016) 1, pp. 20-33
The purpose of this study is to assess the awareness and attitudes of employees in Aviation and aerospace industries. This paper belongs to a wider research project, on environmental management in aviation and aerospace industries. The main scope of this research is to evaluate the level of...
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Sustaining Partnerships between Schools and Industry: A Minerals and Energy Case
Flynn, Matthew; Pillay, Hitendra; Watters, James J. - In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and … 7 (2016) 4, pp. 72-84
, there are very few articles in the literature that seek to understand the sustainability of industry-school partnerships … sustainability of such partnership arrangements. The author reports on a large-scale government led industry-school partnership, the … resilience and adaptive capacity are critical principles for the sustainability of ISPs. …
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