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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …

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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers

Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995

No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...

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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.

Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990

Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...

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Full Circle : a collection of prototypes

Finn, Angela L. - 2008

sustainability: that of the well being of fashion industry workers in Australia and New Zealand (people). This collection formed the … source local/make local/sell local approach also has great benefits in terms of environmental sustainability. …

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Occupier perceptions of green workplace environment: The Australian experience

Kato, Hikari; Too, Linda; Rask, Ann - 2009

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the perceptions by occupiers of green workplace environments. It examines how occupiers (both management and employees) perceive and evaluate the role of green workplace environments, and subsequently assesses the effectiveness of a green...

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Analyzing the supplier/customer relationship: an industrial case study

Larson, Nick; Kusiak, Andrew; Clymer, David; Thompson, Gary - 1996

This paper discusses an industrial project in which the objective was to develop a classification method for associating key characteristics of supplier/customer relationships with supplier evaluation focus groups and core supplier capabilities. A neural network model was developed to supplement...

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Risk assessment in concurrent engineering

Larson, T. N.; Kusiak, Andrew - 1995

A method is proposed for decomposing the decision making process based on risk factors in product development (e.g., redesign risk, schedule risk). The IDEF3 methodology is used to capture the macro-decision structure of the design process. Decision sets are identified based on logical...

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Scheduling models for setup reduction

Feng, Chang-Xue; Kusiak, Andrew; Huang, Chun-Che - 1997

The reduction of setup time has a significant impact on shortening manufacturing cycle time. In this paper, characteristics of setup activities are investigated, and models for sequencing setup activities are discussed. Sequencing setup activities can be modeled as a project scheduling problem....

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Innovation: A data-driven approach

Kusiak, Andrew - 2009

A newly introduced product or service becomes an innovation after it has been proven in the market. No one likes the fact that market failures of products and services are much more common than commercial successes. A data-driven approach to innovation is proposed. It is a natural extension of...

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Innovation: The living laboratory perspective

Kusiak, Andrew - 2007

Innovation research is highly interdisciplinary and has attracted numerous science and practice communities. Though innovation results are broadly applicable, this paper focuses on engineering and service domains. The two are tightly interrelated, as the benefits of product innovation are...

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