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Your Name, Your Root : The Impact of Supplier CEO’s Long-Term Orientation on the Duration of Supply Chain Relationships

Cavusoglu, Hasan; Hu, Nan; Liang, Peng - 2023

We examine how a supplier CEO’s long-term orientation (LTO), as characterized by Hofstede’s framework of cross …-cultural dimensions, affects the duration of customer-supplier relationships. By analyzing the national cultural backgrounds of 707 … distinct supplier CEOs from 20 countries based on their surnames in the period of 1992-2017, we find that supplier top managers …

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Cost Uniqueness and Information Uncertainty

Anderson, Mark C.; Mashruwala, Raj; Wang, Ye; Zhao, Rong - 2023

Prior literature has studied firm uniqueness and its implications for capital market participants by investigating earnings uniqueness. We recognize that cost and revenue uniqueness provide separate insights about firm uniqueness because different forces drive firm-specific revenues and costs....

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Post-disaster Corporate Inventory Stockpiling : Evidence from Natural Disasters

Cho, Seunghyun; Jung, Boochun; Silva, Felipe Bastos G.; … - 2023

We examine whether managers stockpile excess inventory after experiencing natural disasters. Using major disasters in the U.S. between 1993 and 2018, we document that firms located within a disaster area stockpile excess inventory after experiencing a disaster. The effect is stronger when a...

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The impact of applying the target cost and continuous improvement (Kaizen) on achieving the sustainable competitive advantage of Palestinian industrial companies

Alkababji, Majdi Wael - In: Journal of business and socio-economic development 3 (2023) 4, pp. 372-387

Purpose - This study aims to examine the impact of implementing target costing and continuous improvement techniques in industrial companies operating in southern Palestine on achieving sustainable competitive advantage (SCA). The study mainly assesses the level of application of these...

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Human in the Loop : An Examination of the Value of Human Judgment Over Predictive Analytics in Anticipating Propensity to Sell for Product Assortment Planning

Choi, Jen; Forker, Ewelina; Grabner, Isabella; … - 2022

With the ever-increasing availability of predictive analytics in practice, identifying the conditions under which human judgment should be used to augment predictive analytics models – that is, when there should be a “human in the loop” – is critical. This study utilizes proprietary data...

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Basic Problems Concerning Budgeting in Coal Extraction Units

Lucia, Paliu - Popa; Ionela-Claudia, Dina - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1583-1587

Given that the purpose of any business, and therefore those working in the field of extraction of coal mineral resources, is aimed at maintaining the equilibrium relationship between revenue and expenditure, the management problem facing firms is to find those methods which allow sizing and...

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Approach and research models of quality and business performance: a critical review.

Vinuesa, Luz María Marín - In: Cuadernos de Gestión 09 (2009) 02, pp. 89-110

This paper synthesizes the research based on the relationship between quality and performance. This review is carried out from different research design types: measures of quality management and business performance, and different research models. We focus our review on research studies written...

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Justifying Environmental Cost Allocation in a Multiple Product Firm: A Case Study

Ngwakwe, Collins C. - In: Managing Global Transitions 7 (2009) 4, pp. 403-420

This case study examines the effect of environmental cost allocation on production cost and the outcome for environmental management decisions. Using a revised cost allocation – referred to in this paper as environmental cost allocation – the paper contrasts overhead allocation between...

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ENSURING THE QUALITY OF SERVICES BY MAKING COSTS EFFECTIVE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF RURAL TOURIST BOARDING HOUSES

Dragolea, Larisa; Todoran, Radu Matei - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2009) 11, pp. 28-28

Lately, the number of the rural boarding houses has grown considerably,the researches registering a progressive evolution. The latest official records provided bythe National Institute of Statistics were made in 2007 and they show the considerablenumeric growth of the people that have appealed...

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Improvement of Cost Calculation in Constructions – Application of the Standard Cost Method

Breuer, Adela; Frumusanu, Mihaela Lesconi; Ciurea, … - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2010) 15

Grace to the analysis of several commercial companies effectively performed “on the field”, we could remark the necessity to change the method of cost calculation, our motivation being related to the simplification of calculations and the reduction of the labour volume, but especially the...

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