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The relationship between ERP system and supply chain management performance in Malaysian manufacturing companies
Saleh Shatat, Ahmad; Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 25 (2012) 6, pp. 576-604
management (SCM) performance in the context of Malaysian manufacturing companies that use ERP system. Design … investigate the relationship between ERP system and SCM performance. The respondents of this study were the MIS or IT executives …, production planning, and controlling), and SCM performance. The workflow management, however, does not have a significant …
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Barriers to implementing reverse logistics in South Australian construction organisations
Chileshe, Nicholas; Rameezdeen, Raufdeen; Hosseini, M. Reza - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 20 (2015) 2, pp. 179-204
Purpose – This paper aims to present a survey of the perceptions of the barriers to implementing reverse logistics (RL) practices in South Australian (SA) construction organisations. Despite the extensive research on forward logistics and RL, there is a paucity of studies that examine the...
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Relative price variability and the Phillips Curve: evidence from Turkey
Nazif Çatik, A.; Martin, Christopher; Özlem Onder, A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) 5, pp. 546-561
Purpose – Using data from Turkey, this paper seeks to investigate whether relative price changes can help to explain the Phillips Curve relationship between inflation and output. Design/methodology/approach – Building on work by Ball and Mankiw, the paper includes measures of the variance...
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Quality Improvement Using Capital Budgeting and Taguchi’s Function
Margavio, Geanie W.; Fink, Ross L.; Margavio, Thomas M. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 11 (1994) 6, pp. 10-20
Quality improvement decisions are the catalyst for substantial technological improvements being made in the manufacturing sector. The ew technology, however, has developed faster than techniques for evaluating capital investments in such improvements. This is largely because the benefits of...
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Accounting and non‐accounting measures of quality‐based performances in small firms
Noci, Giuliano - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 15 (1995) 7, pp. 78-105
In recent years it has been often claimed that quality is one of most critical success factors for organizations. Managers introduced quality‐based programmes – such as total quality management – assuming that performances would improve. However, many quality‐based initiatives failed....
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Investors′ Prior Expectations of Audit Opinions
Choo, Teck‐Min - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 9 (1994) 5, pp. 16-28
Research studies on the information content of audit opinions have produced conflicting results. One possible reason could be that these studies did not incorporate investors′ prior expectations of the audit opinions which would be issued. Attempts to model investors′ prior expectations...
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Product costing continuum for managerial decisions
Reinstein, Alan; Bayou, Mohammed E. - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 12 (1997) 9, pp. 490-497
Develops a continuum of product costing systems (PCSs) and demonstrates its application to making managerial decisions. Explains the relevance of this structure to managerial issues including inventory control, pricing, special decisions and product design. Synthesizes various PCSs into a...
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Are Business Cycle Dynamics the Same across Countries? Testing Linearity around the Globe
Bradley, Michael D.; Jansen, Dennis W. - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 4 (2000) 2
We investigate business cycle dynamics for 26 countries, estimating a set of nonlinear models for real GDP where …
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Estimating a modified nonlinear Hicks model: evidence from the Chinese economy (1970‐2007)
Michaelides, Panayotis G.; Belegri‐Roboli, Athena; … - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 2, pp. 117-124
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a non‐linear Hicks model of the cycle, based on Keynesian theory and … empirical estimation based on nonlinear least squares and other relevant techniques. Findings – An example is given to prove the … feasibility and the increased validity of the non‐linear dynamic Hicks model. Analytically, an empirical application for the …
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Testing for nonlinearity of exchange rates: an information‐theoretic approach
Zhang, Yuqin; Soofi, Abdol S.; Wang, Shouyang - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) 6, pp. 637-657
variance of the residuals of the linear and nonlinear autoregressive models by Akaike Information Criterion, and a surrogate … data analysis was conducted. Findings – It shows that a nonlinear autoregressive model outperforms a linear stochastic … different model orders and the data for the entire samples are estimated, it appears that the nonlinear model has a better …
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