This study explores the concept and practical implementation of continuous innovation in logistics services, particularly Distribution Centres. Continuous innovation is a concept that requires a methodical, programmed, incremental and/or radical approach to business improvement involving...

This paper presents a model of strategic manipulation in the context of an informational duopoly. The fact that market manipulation by these duopolists may affect their cost and demand structures implies that they can strategically manipulate the market in order to influence the information...

Domestic companies are increasingly trying to expand to become globalised firms or multinational corporations (MNCs). Existing business strategies, visions and information systems need to be re-analysed and perhaps reconstructed to fulfil the business goals, operations and characteristics of the...

Social controls influence the environmental performance of firms and require them to be more accountable for their environmental impacts. These controls include governmental interventions such as mandatory disclosure requirements, regulation and subsidisation, as well as less formal controls...

The level of development of continuous improvement (CI) across all aspects of a firm?s operations provides a significant indicator of a company?s future competitive potential. As a result, a survey of medium and large manufacturing firms in Australia was conducted to determine the main motives...

Research in this thesis investigates the following issue; dynamics of international financial integration; international portfolio equity investment patterns; Australian investors? equity investment position in the global economy; and finally geographical and home bias related to equity...

Management training has been considered as an important issue attracting the interest of several individuals and organizations in both developed and developing countries. Moreover, empirical evidence shows that there are differences in many aspects of management training that may result from...

Since the early 1980s there has been a growing interest globally in service quality, driven by the supposition that high service quality will lead to more satisfied customers. Satisfied customers will remain loyal and spread positive word-of-mouth advertising, and therefore improving service...

Overview of Value Chain Analysis: Exchange between firms is central to the study of business ? to ? business marketing. Firms perform activities to facilitate these exchanges, principally resources, en route to developing their competitive advantages, in turn creating a basis for...

In the past, researches have used statistical, operational research or simulation techniques, in finding solutions to improve management systems. In contrast to these procedures, we introduce a new way of integrating operations research and statistics to build an Operational Statistics Model and...