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Operations, Maintenance, and Replacement 10-year plan, 1990-1999 : 1989 Utility OM&R Comparison : A Comparison of BPA (Bonneville Power Administration) and Selected Utility Transmi...
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009
was assembled in early January 1989. The team included representatives from BPA's Management Analysis, Internal Audit and … Financial Management organizations, and operation and maintenance program areas. BPA selected four utilities from a field of … maintenance program direction and emphasis; Organization, management and implementation techniques; Reliability; and Program costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435742
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Pricing in the presence of strategic consumer behavior
Feldman, Pnina - 2010
This dissertation addresses the impact of strategic consumer behavior on different pricing strategies. Generally speaking, consumers are strategic in that they correctly anticipate a firms' actions and the behavior of other consumers when they make purchasing decisions. In the context of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438703
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Topics in univariate time series analysis with business applications
Khachatryan, Davit - 2010
Recent technological advances in sensor and computer technology allow the observation of business and industrial processes at fairly high frequencies. For example, data used for monitoring critical parameters of industrial furnaces, conveyor belts or chemical processes may be sampled every...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467764
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Supply chain coordination in the presence of consumer returns
Ruiz-Benitez, Rocio - 2007
We study the effect that consumer returns have on the coordination of a two-echelon supply chain with a single manufacturer and a single retailer that faces stochastic demand and a certain proportion of consumer returns for a single product. Returned goods command a full refund and result in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467767
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Transportation and dynamic networks: Models, theory, and applications to supply chains, electric power, and financial networks
Liu, Zugang - 2008
Network systems, including transportation and logistic systems, electric power generation and distribution networks as well as financial networks, provide the critical infrastructure for the functioning of our societies and economies. The understanding of the dynamic behavior of such systems is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467801
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Productivity and comparative analysis in service and manufacturing operations
Chen, Yao - 2000
Productivity assessment has received increased attention over the past several years. At the same time, the focus has moved from single-factor productivity measures, or attempts to characterize performance in terms of simple ratios, to a multi-factor construct. In this dissertation, I propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467945
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A dynamic theory for the integration of social and economic networks with applications to supply chain and financial networks
Wakolbinger, Tina B - 2007
Uzzi (1996, p. 674) highlighted that there is a "growing need to understand how social structure assists or impedes economic performance." In this dissertation, I contribute to this understanding by constructing dynamic supernetwork models that explicitly integrate social networks with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468140
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The state and development of continuous improvement practices in an emerging economy: The case of Vietnam
Nguyen, Phuong Anh - 2011
academics to do management research there. The research reported here investigated the use of CI practices in Vietnam during six … tremendous recent growth in business activity in Vietnam, a better understanding of the management practices of companies there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480861
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An agent-based model of team coordination and performance
Rojas-Villafane, Jose A - 2010
This research is based on the premises that teams can be designed to optimize its performance, and appropriate team coordination is a significant factor to team outcome performance. Contingency theory argues that the effectiveness of a team depends on the right fit of the team design factors to...
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Coordination in maintenance outsourcing
Tarakci, Hakan - 2004
In the first part of this thesis, we consider a manufacturer who has a process with an increasing failure rate over time. In order to improve the performance of the process, the following two types of maintenance activities are outsourced to an external contractor: (a) Preventive maintenance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430296