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The Perception of Uncertainty in Budgetary Decision Making

Ibrahim, M.M. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 6 (1993) 3

Aims to explore the nature of uncertainty in budgetary decision making in three local authorities in the UK … (Staffordshire, Shropshire and Derbyshire). Results show that these authorities have been experiencing great uncertainty during the … 1980s. The source of such uncertainty is traceable to the effect of Central Government policies and the general economic …

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Managing service quality: applying utility theory in the prioritization of service attributes

Li, Y.N.; Tan, K.C.; Xie, M. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 4, pp. 417-435

The ability of a company to achieve excellence in service quality depends on the determination of service attributes and their desired levels. It depends also on the prioritization of service attributes, using appropriate quality improvement indices, in a consistent manner within the constraints...

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Exploring the impact of culture on quality management

Lagrosen, Stefan - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (2003) 4, pp. 473-487

managers from the SKF group from 30 countries world‐wide. It is found that the cultural dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and …

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A simple method of determining moments of a top event

Soman, K.P.; Misra, K.B. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 13 (1996) 5, pp. 50-60

Describes a simple algorithm which has been developed for determining exact moments of top event failure probability from the moments of the basic events in a fault tree. This method requires neither Taylor series expansion of top event failure probability function nor its partial derivates to...

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A REGIONAL COOPERATION TO SUPPORT FINANCIAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION: AN APPLICATION OF A MODEL WITH UNCERTAINTY AND FEEDBACK INFLUENCES

Azis, Iwan J. - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 13 (2005) 3, pp. 196-215

Managing financial sector under a liberalized system is always difficult; it faces a risk of financial crisis. Financial managers in most emerging markets, be it in the corporate, banking or public sector, have experienced such a challenge, and those in East Asia have learned the hard lesson...

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Clarifying the conceptual map of VUCA: a systematic review

Taskan, Burcu; Junça-Silva, Ana; Caetano, António - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 30 (2022) 7, pp. 196-217

Purpose Over the past few decades, the environment for organisations has been frequently described using the acronym VUCA: a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. In spite of the popularity of this acronym, it is not unusual to find some overlap concerning the meaning of those...

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Legal system uncertainty and FDI attraction in Southeast Asia

White III, George O.; Chizema, Amon; Canabal, Anne; … - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 10 (2015) 3, pp. 572-597

suggest that there will be a curvilinear relationship between legal system uncertainty and foreign direct investment (FDI …) attraction in Southeast Asia. The authors extend theory by arguing that this is because uncertainty will provide opportunities … for FDI that seek this form of operating environment, leveraging legal system uncertainty as a basis for competitive …

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International supply chain agility ‐ Tradeoffs between flexibility and uncertainty

Prater, Edmund; Biehl, Markus; Smith, Michael Alan - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 21 (2001) 5/6, pp. 823-839

increases in complexity, which works against agility. We propose a theoretical construct linking elements of uncertainty with …

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Now, let's make it really complex (complicated)

Geraldi, Joana; Maylor, Harvey; Williams, Terry - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 31 (2011) 9, pp. 966-990

. Findings – This framework comprises five dimensions of complexity – structural, uncertainty, dynamics, pace and socio …

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Traceability in Manufacturing Systems

Cheng, M.J.; Simmons, J.E.L. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 14 (1994) 10, pp. 4-16

Proposes that the role of traceability in manufacturing systems is to enable the history of events to be followed and compared with scheduled plans and predefined goals. Tracing techniques can be used to detect system status (status tracing), analyse system performance (performance tracing) and...

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