This research examines supplier's internal communication when a company is changing to being a solution provider. The focus lies on the internal communication challenges during the change. The qualitative case study comprises two cases of the change process to solution business. The results...

In this study, we investigated if employees' innovative behavior can be explained in terms of social exchange between employees and organizations. We developed a research model based on the Organizational Support Theory (Eisenberger et al. 1986). The model explains how innovative behavior among...

In this study, the analytical probability models for an automated serial production system, bufferless that consists of n-machines in series with common transfer mechanism and control system was developed. Both time to failure and time to repair a failure are assumed to follow exponential...

Foreign subsidiaries, as organization units of a multinational company, are profoundly involved in the value creation process for and within the company. The performance evaluation of foreign subsidiaries is a crucial issue for globally-active companies not only in regard to value creation for...

This paper investigates the influence of the economic value added (EVA) performance evaluation, issued in 2010 by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, on the value of the cash holdings of central state-owned enterprises (CSOEs). We find that EVA...

This paper analyzes the post-privatization performance and organizational changes of a Pakistani State Owned Enterprise (SOE). Drawing on the concept of sustainable development, this study examines the performance of the firm from three perspectives - economic, social and environmental. The...

The present paper deals with the opportunities for the modeling of flue gas and air system of a thermal power plant by making the performance evaluation using probabilistic approach. The present system of thermal plant under study consists of four subsystems with three possible states: full...

Purpose: There are many kinds of methods to evaluate the performance of enterprise, but they still have some distinct shortcomings. In order to achieve a better evaluation result, we put forward a new model named FLI-GA (Fuzzy logic inference & Genetic algorithm). Approach: This model, mainly...

Purpose: The requirements for high quality and diversification aquatic products are increasing with the improvement of Chinese living standard. However, the distribution between the place of production and the place of consumption are uneven, which results in large cold-chain logistics demand...

In the business-to-business sector large quantities of the internationally traded goods are transported by hundreds in identical parcels inside shipping containers. These parcels are often unloaded manually, which is labor-intensive and physically demanding. In previous papers, we presented a...