Purpose This study seeks to understand how regulatory and competitive forces impact firms' actions and innovation performance. The study investigates how firms strategize internally and externally to address regulatory and competitive forces, and how such actions influence firms' innovation...

Purpose This study intended to identify and categorize the drivers of using online English learning resources (OELR) and to understand OELR's impacts. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an online survey, obtained complete responses from 157 OELR users and used structural equation...

In this paper we present a novel approach to the dynamic pricing problem for hotel businesses. It includes disaggregation of the demand into several categories, forecasting, elastic demand simulation, and a mathematical programming model with concave quadratic objective function and linear...

This note suggests faster algorithms for two integrated production/distribution problems studied earlier, improving their complexities from O(n2V + 4) and O(n2(L + V)2) to O(n) and O(n + Vmin {V, n}) respectively, where n is the number of products to be delivered, V is the number of vehicles...

A problem is studied in which several non-cooperating clients compete for earlier execution of their jobs in a processing sequence of a single service provider in order to minimize job completion time costs. The clients can move their jobs earlier in a given sequence. They are assumed not to...