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Looks at the improvement initiatives which companies implement in operations, in the areas of design, supply and … production. A number of initiatives are considered, including design computerization, flexible automation, linkages with …
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The Japanese practice of Kanban (Just‐in‐time – JIT), has won a lot of converts in recent times in the US and elsewhere. Literature is rife with success stories, though, mostly from the users′ side. The strategic implications of this emerging management philosophy on the large number of...
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The methods traditionally employed to assess the capability of suppliers to deliver what is wanted at the right time are described. More recently quality appraisal has been developed and preventive quality has grown out of this. The experience of Black and Decker with quality appraisal is...
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The development of co‐makership in the UK raises important legal considerations as to the nature of the relationship between the parties concerned. These problems are discussed in detail and include competition law problems, contractual problems, confidentiality, industrial property ownership...
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the characteristics of the equilibrium between demand and supply …. Research limitations/implications – Most alternative models of insurance demand imply that, in the presence of transaction …
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applied to two different household survey data sets of 2008 and 2013 to capture the effect of labour demand and supply on …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the causes of unemployment in Ghana from both labour demand and … supply perspectives based on most recent cross sectional data set from one nationally representative household survey and a …
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interventions has majorly concentrated on demand side leading to a non-responsive supply sector. Therefore, this paper highlights … housing schemes to better identify policy priorities for Malaysia. It's significant to harmonize supply and demand side … factors in the housing market to ensure that housing supply fits the needs of citizens based on the location, price and target …
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the development of entrepreneurship education are divided into supply and demand categories. Data show that the increasing …
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user sanctions leads to an increase in consumption, drug prices will rise unless supply is perfectly elastic. In … equilibrium, a change in consumption associated with decreasing user sanctions could be relatively small if supply is upward … higher marijuana prices in the short-run, which ceteris paribus, implies an upward sloping supply curve, higher consumption …
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Purpose – The paper seeks to estimate agricultural commodity supply response at three levels of aggregation namely, all … agricultural commodity production has the potential of stimulating a faster and considerable response to price incentives …. Originality/value – Despite the policy relevance of agricultural commodity supply response, the extent of the response in Ghana is …
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