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Logistics Outsourcing and The Role of Logistics Service Providers: A Study About Steel Pipe Production Enterprises in Turkey
Yıldız, Mehmet Selami; Turan, İlker - In: Business and Economics Research Journal 6 (2015) 1, pp. 79-105
Specialization requirement led the outsourcing preferred intensely by firms. Evidently “logistics activities … from Turkey's steel pipe production enterprises who have knowledge of logistics management. Fourteen steel pipe enterprises … inbound and outbound logistics are the logistics functions most commonly outsourced. Furthermore, service quality, reliability …
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LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION DIAGNOSISIN ORGANISATIONS FROM THE FURNITURE FIELD
Andrei, Dalina Ochetan - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2012) 18, pp. 131-140
logistics and distribution in the furniture industry organisations. That is why the research methodology is based on a pragmatic …
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Configuration of Logistics Activities across Life-Cycle of the Firms and Performance: Proposal of a Conceptual Model
Ferreira, João; Leitão, João; Garrido Azevedo, Susana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the last years, broad changes have contributed to the enhancement of the importance of the logistics as a source of …-cycle firm’s stages, and the standard profile of logistics activities, and the correspondent impact on performance. …
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Logistics Integration Processes in the Food Industry
Giménez Thomsen, Cristina - 2004
integration in the Logistics-Production interface, a low level of internal integration in the Logistics-Marketing interface, and a …
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Benchmarking as a factor of an economic crisis consequences' levelling
Ostrovkaya, V. N. - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 4 (2012) 2, pp. 191-197
Issues of European companies' effectiveness in the conditions of an unstable world economic situation became a priority for all managers. The economic crisis caught many managers unawares and made economic agents of the European market face new major problems on formation of instruments of...
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Creating High Reliability Teams in Healthcare through <em>In situ </em>Simulation Training
Riley, William; Lownik, Elizabeth; Parrotta, Carmen; … - In: Administrative Sciences 1 (2011) 1, pp. 14-31
The importance of teamwork on patient safety in healthcare has been well established. However, the theory and research of healthcare teams are seriously lacking in clinical application. While conventional team theory assumes that teams are stable and leadership is constant, a growing body of...
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Tedarik Zinciri Esnekligine Yonelik Butunlesik Bir Olcum Modeli
TOPOYAN, Mert - In: Ege Academic Review 11 (2011) 4, pp. 511-523
Tedarik zincirlerinin degisen pazarlara ve musteri isteklerine uyum yeteneginin olcusu tedarik zinciri esnekligi olarak adlandirilmaktadir. Rekabet gucunu arttirmak ve korumak isteyen tedarik zincirlerinin, esneklik duzeylerini gelistirmeleri gerekmektedir. Yazinda esneklik kavrami cogunlukla...
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Individual Learning and Social Learning: Endogenous Division of Cognitive Labor in a Population of Co-evolving Problem-Solvers
Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 53-75
The dynamic choice between individual and social learning is explored for a population of autonomous agents whose objective is to find solutions to a stream of related problems. The probability that an agent is in the individual learning mode, as opposed to the social learning mode, evolves over...
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Business Contingency, Strategy Formation, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study of Chinese Apparel SMEs
Chi, Ting - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 27-45
This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...
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PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF ISO 9001
Ollila, Antero - In: Global Journal of Business Research 6 (2012) 2, pp. 71-81
The ISO 9001 quality management system (QMS) includes a method of continuous improvement put in place in 1994. Through this system, audits and reviews are performed to identify, correct and prevent problems. Although the method of continuous improvement, combined with adherence to annual quality...
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