Knowledge is a resource and an important asset that organizations leverage to attain their goals. In a competitive environment, efficient and effective transfer of knowledge within the firm is a strategic imperative. In each organization a system through which knowledge flows, arises by design...

Our research establishes the platform and modeling for the new trend in today's Global Supply Chain Management Systems (GCOM). The framework consists of various practical policies with respect to booking units, reserve-price, and the preservation of relationship between the outsourcing...

This dissertation investigates the nature of the relationship that exists between job satisfaction among temporary workers and general customer perceptions of service quality, customer-based appraisal of specific service provider performance, and customers' future behavioral intentions...

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the third quarter 1992 employment rates and average wages of individuals who were Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) certified in Florida during the third quarter of 1987. The employment rates and average wages were compared to a select group of...

Distribution centers and warehouses are becoming more and more dependent on advanced computer technologies to establish and maintain competitiveness in a global economy. Neural network represent a new technology with a wide scope of potential warehouses applications, ranging from planning and...

The cross-validated classification accuracy of predictive discriminant analysis (PDA) and logistic regression (LR) models was compared for the two-group classification problem. Thirty-four real data sets varying in number of cases, number of predictor variables, degree of group separation,...

Views on general urban, commercial, and light industrial growth are analyzed to determine the effect of substantive differences. While consistency across issues is often assumed, public opinion theory and recent findings on environmental concern suggest otherwise. Also, "utility-maximizing"...

This thesis presents a model designed to optimize the allocation of corporate resources required for the success of a product in the marketplace. The product development resources used in the model are: market research, applied research, product design, cost reduction and advertising.

The Material Requirement Planning System (MRP) is a key module in the Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems. Finding better ways of developing systems leads to a robust MRP system and provides prototypes which can be expanded to other modules of the ERP systems. This thesis will provide an...

The goal of time series forecasting is to identify the underlying pattern and use these patterns to predict the future path of the series. To capture the future path of a dynamic stock market variable is one of the toughest challenges.