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My first encounter with a quality assurance auditor is reminiscent of an old Dodge commercial. You remember? The old sheriff, masked in mirrored sunglasses, paunch hanging over his gun belt, prophesying, ``You`re in a heap o` trouble boy!`` Well, my auditor could have been kin to the sheriff; they...
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Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a Mexican business that a US company can hold, joint ventures are more attractive now than they had been in the past. This study provides preliminary information for US renewable...
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My first encounter with a quality assurance auditor is reminiscent of an old Dodge commercial. You remember The old sheriff, masked in mirrored sunglasses, paunch hanging over his gun belt, prophesying, You're in a heap o' trouble boy '' Well, my auditor could have been kin to the sheriff; they...
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Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...
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Agency theory is one of the principal frameworks utilized in explaining the family business phenomena. The objectives … agency dynamics within family businesses, as moderated by differing forms of governance and management practices … advantages for family firms in highly competitive environments. This agency trade-off provides a link between agency theory and …
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to the nascent and growing Operations Management scholarship on procurement, and contributes to the field’s general … understanding of supply chain management. …
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In the extant supply-risk management literature, most research assumes the manufacturer is as knowledgeable about … management under asymmetric information about supply disruption risk.In the first essay, we consider a supply chain with one ….In the second essay, we study the manufacturer's supply-risk management when it has a dual-sourcing option, that is, there …
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This paper analyzes a unit-contingent power purchase agreement between an electricity distributor and a power plant. Under such a contract the distributor pays the plant a fixed price if the plant is operational and nothing if plant outage occurs. Pricing a unit-contingent contract is...
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We analyze the problem of an investor who needs to unwind a portfolio in the face of recurring and uncertain liquidity …
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with capital, asset quality, management, earnigs, and liquidity as known as CAMEL. Capital use CAR ratio, asset quality use … NPL ratio, management use NPM ratio, earnigs use NIM and BOPO ratio, and the last liquidity use LDR ratio. That ratio can …
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