This document critically reviews the papers that investigated the impact of funding on scientific output and on scientific collaboration. For the output, the focus is on the number of articles as a measure of the scientific productivity and the number of citations that a paper received as an...

The export volume can be regarded as one of the important macroeconomic measures of a country development. Although the international trade volume has been increased significantly during the past years, the share of developing countries is still not comparable with the developed ones. This paper...

Purpose: By developing a better understanding of costs associated with improving organizational quality and costs incurred by neglecting it, banks could devise more optimal operational policies. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: This paper proposes a generic...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimization model to better allocate cost of quality (COQ) in the supply chain (SC). In addition, the paper provides a roadmap based on COQ that allocates limited given budget among the SC entities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the cost of quality (COQ) expenditure allocations on a capacitated supply chain (SC) network. Design/methodology/approach: This paper proposes a non-linear optimization model which integrates the opportunity cost (OC) (i.e. customer...