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Purpose – The main purpose of the paper is to present a framework for the development of performance‐based service strategies for the oil and gas industry in Norway. The framework considers various influencing factors and their attributes, as well as performance factors categorized as...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and implement an algorithm to prioritize welding quality deterioration factors for improving welding personnel performance. A case study is carried out in a piping components fabrication process which supplies these components to oil and gas...
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Juran defined the basic quality problem as “to strike the optimum balance between cost of quality and value of quality for each quality characteristic and to do so in the lower levels of organisation”, explaining that increased conformance reduces the losses which are due to defectives but...
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quality of tinted glass produced by a glass manufacturing company in Kazakhstan. Design/methodology/approach – Data were …
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internationally by examining several modes of entry and choosing the best choice to expand in Russia and Kazakhstan. Design … Kazakhstan. Findings – The results confirm that the expansion for El Sewedy is challenging whether in Russia or Kazakhstan … Kazakhstan given their easy connections and access there. The best solution for El Sewedy to expand is to trade high voltage and …
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Focuses on global responsibility (GR) in Kazakhstan. Asserts, from analysis of the literature and interviews with …. Discusses the business culture structure of Kazakhstan.  …
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, and Kazakhstan to those of the UK to facilitate investment decisions. The paper aims to discover governance gaps creating … governance standards in Cyprus match 92 per cent of the UK standards, Russian standards match 75 per cent, and Kazakhstan ones 63 …, Russia's was in the area of responsibilities of the board, and Kazakhstan's was highest in the two areas mentioned above and …
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highly competitive and universally significant industry. Kazakhstan is a new country without a history of private companies …. Kazakhstan is one of the world's fastest developing economies.  …
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Considers the development of local supply chains in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The reconstruction of supply chains … regional level. Using the results of research carried out in Kazakhstan during late 1995 and 1996, we outline the local supply … promote local supply chain development in Kazakhstan and, by implication, elsewhere in the transition economies.  …
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Suggests that both future supplies of, and the future demand for, North Sea Gas are highly uncertain. Gives examples to show that one can argue, with equal plausibility, that in the 1970s there could be either a significant shortage, or a substantial surplus of capacity relative to ‘premium’...
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