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During the economic and financial crisis, private and public organizations were subject to a constant reduction in costs and resources. Public shared service models felt compelled to adopt the Lean methodology with the aim of reducing costs, reducing waste and increasing employee satisfaction...
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During the Corona pandemic, access to reliable information is particularly relevant in order to be able to take … protective measures. However, migrants and refugees in transit and residence countries often lack such access to information …. This opens the opportunity for alternative sources of raising awareness and information. Corona Songs about COVID-19 and …
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Innovation research has abundant literature on technologically advanced innovations and entrepreneurship. However, literature from a rural innovator and entrepreneur perspective is sparse. Therefore, we explore rural user innovation and entrepreneurship in a developing country, India. Using...
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A classic philosopher in the Bildung tradition, Humboldt argued that general Bildung was the opposite of specialist training (vocational education). This has been a matter of contention and the aim here is to revisit the issue through an empirical case study. In the vocational education...
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A crucial stage of the remanufacturing process is the inspection procedure. Surveys carried out in the automotive remanufacturing sector show that the industry is concerned about the need this causes for a large amount of specialist skills. Despite this, there has been little research into what...
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Reprocessing of used products is a growing field, with respect to both scientific and practical approaches. In this context, we present an in-depth case study dealing with the reverse logistics processes at Repair- and Service Center R.U.S.Z, an Austrian Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE)...
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more to convert cognition of experts into information to get values of risk factors. The critical, moderate, low level and …
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The link between a firm and supply chain (SC) members has been recognised as one of the key issues for ensuring business success and achieving competitive advantage. Indeed, working across organisational boundaries is required to accomplish effective responses to customers' needs. Our...
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Contracts are used to coordinate disparate but interdependent members of the supply chain. Conflicting objectives of these members and lack of coordination among the members lead to inefficiencies in matching supply with demand. This study reviews different types of contracts and proposes a...
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In today's manufacturing outlook, coordinated scheduling of delivery and inventory represents a leading leverage to enhance the competitiveness of firms which aims to address the new challenge coming from scheduling problems. Though in the last decades this kind of issue has been extensively...
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