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In whose backyard? A generalized bidding approach

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2000

We analyze situations in which a group of agents (and possibly a designer) have to reach a decision that will affect all the agents. Examples of such scenarios are the location of a nuclear reactor or the siting of a major sport event. To address the problem of reaching a decision, we propose a...

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The Principal-Agent Matching Market

Dam, Kaniska; Pérez-Castrillo, David - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2001

We propose a model based on competitive markets in order to analyze an economy with several principals and agents. We model the principal-agent economy as a two-sided matching game and characterize the set of stable outcomes of this principal-agent matching market. A simple mechanism to...

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Distributing Awards Efficiently: More on King Solomon’s Problem

Bag, P.K.; Sabourian, H. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2004

implementation of efficient allocation by iterative elimination of weakly dominated strategies, using generalisation of Olszewski …

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The human aspects of JIT implementation

Storhagen, Nils G. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 25 (1995) 3, pp. 4-23

The principles behind just‐in‐time have long been recognized in the Western world. However, implementation in the West …

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Third party logistics services usage by large Australian firms

Dapiran, Peter; Lieb, Robert; Millen, Robert; Sohal, Amrik - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 26 (1996) 10, pp. 36-45

considering doing so. Provides insights in planning for implementation, for example, the need to educate the third party logistics …

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Supply chain management practices in Asia Pacific today

McMullan, Amanda - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 26 (1996) 10, pp. 79-95

Examines the state of supply chain management practices in the Asia Pacific region and presents results of a survey distributed to some of the region’s biggest companies, representing, for example, the chemical, food, transport, communications and automotive industries. Identifies key supply...

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Logistics in the health care industry

Gary Jarrett, P. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 28 (1998) 9/10, pp. 741-772

environment to determine if regulatory policies or industry procedures have hindered the implementation of just‐in‐time systems … industries from the implementation of just‐in‐time. The study also compared the health care industry environments of the USA, UK …

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An empirical investigation of the level of electronic data interchange (EDI) implementation and its ability to predict EDI system success measures and EDI implementation factors

Angeles, Rebecca; Nath, Ravinder; Hendon, Donald W. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 28 (1998) 9/10, pp. 773-793

functions. This study explores the construct of “level of EDI implementation” in order to establish its relationship with system … success and the criticality of selected implementation factors. Using the survey method that employed a pair of questionnaires … implementation is positively related to one out of four EDI system success measures and is associated with the criticality of the …

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Quality in logistics: a comparison of practices between Australian and North American/European firms

Sohal, Amrik S.; Millen, Robert; Maggard, Michael; … - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 29 (1999) 4, pp. 267-280

practices are adopted, how quality in logistics is defined and administered, impediments to implementation, measurement of …

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Customer Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Approach

Nagel, Pieter J.A.; Cilliers, Willem W. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 20 (1990) 6, pp. 2-46

concept of customer satisfaction; (2) provide a detailed relationship structure for implementation within a company; and (3 … to the customer satisfaction strategy; and operationalising of this strategy is proposed through an implementation model. …

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