Purpose – Importance performance analysis (IPA) is a technique widely used to assist organisations in developing marketing strategies and improving products or service quality. Many scholars have revised IPA to augment its effectiveness. However, this involves some unknown problems that could...

Purpose – Seeks to examine the impact of national culture on the importance level students place on ten teaching techniques commonly used by US business instructors. Design/methodology/approach – Undergraduate and MBA business students, including students born in the USA and students born in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that a stationary-differenced autoregressive (AR) process with lag greater than 1, AR( q 1), has certain properties that are consistent with a fractional Brownian motion (fBm). What the authors are interested in is the investigation of...

Purpose – New federal legislation proposes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuel production. To comply, existing corn ethanol plants will have to invest in new more carbon efficient production technology such as dry fractionation. However, this will be challenging...

Purpose – Farm level data are essential to accurate setting of crop insurance premium rates, but their time series tends to be too short to allow them to be the sole data source. County level data are available in longer time series, however. The purpose of this paper is to present a...

Purpose Simulation techniques for cost management are useful for modeling uncertainties, making decisions, and improving the accuracy of cost estimation. Despite their usefulness, the application of these techniques in construction projects seems to be uncommon in the construction sector in...

Purpose Automakers are engaged in manufacturing both efficient and inefficient green cars. The purpose of this paper is to categorize efficient green cars and inefficient green cars followed by improving efficiencies of identified inefficient green cars for distribution fitting....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model of a jump diffusion-mean reversion constant proportion portfolio insurance strategy under the presence of transaction cost and stochastic floor as opposed to the deterministic floor used in the previous literatures....

Purpose The aim of this paper is to suggest a new approach to the problem of sales forecasting for improving forecast accuracy. The proposed method is capable of combining, by means of appropriate weights, both the responses supplied by the best-performing conventional algorithms, which base...

Abstract In a strength-stress interference model, we are interested in estimating the structural reliability of a system. Here we present Bayesian procedures to estimate the structural reliability and other relevant parameters when covariates are incorporated in the model. Numerical examples...