Chemical composition, morphology and meteorological conditions altogether play a major role to determine the fate of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) deposition and inhalation. Site-wise (#20 sites) and cumulative variations in chemical composition and morphology of PM5 have been studied in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of Business Process Orientation (BPO) at intra- and inter-organizational levels in various aspects of organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive research model is developed based on the review of...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to understand the relationship of supply chain risk sources, risk drivers, and risk mitigation strategies to the overall risk exposure of the firm and to validate the model empirically. An attempt has been made to determine the major contributors...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how different supply chain attributes as determinants of the openness of supply chain affect organizational performance (OP). Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 259 supply chain executives in Pakistan. Structural...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to optimize the performance for complex repairable system of paint manufacturing unit using a new hybrid bacterial foraging and particle swarm optimization (BFO-PSO) evolutionary algorithm. For this, a performance model is developed with an objective to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the criticality of various sub-systems through the behavioral study of a multi-state repairable system with hot redundancy. The availability of the system is optimized to evaluate the optimum combinations of failure and repair rate parameters...

In the present work, an experimental investigation on wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) of Monel-400 has been presented. Monel-400 is a nickel- copper-based alloy, mostly employed in ships and corrosion- resisting applications. Four input WEDM parameters namely discharge current (Ip),...

In this study, we evaluate the impact of R&D intensity on acquiring firms' abnormal returns by examining 925 Canadian completed deals between 1993 and 2002 that have information on R&D expenditures. While examining the returns to acquiring firm shareholders in the R&D intensive firms we evaluate...