This article joins the research and development (R&D) and knowledge management literature to provide new insight into how to better manage the development of innovative new products and services. This process is still widely acknowledged to be problematic and inefficient. Fundamental to the new...

This paper gives an overall picture of various operations in Durres port containers terminal. Since this port is very new in containers handling operations, there are a number of issues to be addressed. Container terminal operators are providers of container handling services and with the...

Product returns are often characterized by a dual uncertainty on time and quantity. In the literature on inventory management with product returns, best forecasts have been associated with methods that use the most informationregarding product return history. In practice however, data is often...

This paper studies an organizational architecture that I call information-age architecture. I define a measure of organizational IQ and test whether it is related to financial and market success using data from the fast-moving information technology industry. Higher organizational IQ is...

Consider a supply chain in which a product must pass through multiple sites located in series before it is finally delivered to outside customers. Incentive problems may arise in this system when decisions are delegated to corresponding site managers, each maximizing his/her own performance...

In this short paper, we discuss some efficient strategic content management practices that would help enhance a firm’s business horizons to deliver better quality product to their end customers. Since business firms who operate data mining and knowledge-based services related to market...

The process of making decisions in business requires, among other things, the efficient management of information to do with employee competencies. Dealing solely with competencies that employees learn in institutional contexts, however, is insufficient, as employees also acquire competencies...

The high failure rates of SMEs, due to lack of managerial skills, motivated the lecturers of the Department Marketing & Retail, CEMS, Unisa to initiate training workshops at municipalities in their region. The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) skills development community engagement project SME...

Egyre gyorsuló ütemben fejlődő korunkban mindinkább előtérbe kerül az információ, mint a gazdasági szervezetek erőforrása. Az információ előállítás, továbbítás és felhasználás egyre fontosabb szerepet kap, melyhez az informatika és az információs rendszerek...

A piacgazdaságra, versenyszabadságra, a szabad vállalkozás lehetőségére épülő gazdaság kialakulása jelentős változásokat eredményezett a gazdasági életben. Ezzel összhangban születtek meg azok az alkotmányos alapokon nyugvó gazdasági, pénzügyi, jogi jellegű...