Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine and evaluate the “E-Readiness” of the citizens of India which is imperative to make such large scale e-government initiatives a success. The researchers tried to compare India with some developed and developing countries where the...

Purpose – Class-based storage has been studied extensively and proved to be an efficient storage policy. However, few literature addressed how to cluster stuck items for class-based storage. The purpose of this paper is to develop a constrained clustering method integrated with principal...

Perceptual maps are often used in marketing to visually study relations between two or more attributes. However, in many perceptual maps published in the recent literature it remains unclear what is being shown and how the relations between the points in the map can be interpreted or even what a...

Matrix decomposition methods: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Semi Discrete Decomposition (SDD) are proved to be successful in dimensionality reduction. However, to the best of our knowledge, no empirical results are presented and no comparison between these methods is done to uncover...

Based on the previous research, a total of 10 risk indices are selected according to the specific situation in Sichuan Province, such as natural risk, resource constraint risk, internal management risk, capital risk, technical input and output risk, market risk, contract credit risk, property...

Variation of cultivated land quality in 10 major cities and its driving forces are introduced in recent 10 years. And economic development and population growth are the common driving forces for the reduction of cultivated land in coastal cities. Among them, economic development is the main...

According to the ecological safety evaluation index data of land-use change in Ji’an City from 1999 to 2008, positive treatment on selected reverse indices is conducted by Reciprocal Method. Meanwhile, Index Method is used to standardize the selected indices, and Principal Component...

Purpose – From a continuous improvement perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the levels of maturity attained by organisations in reporting their supply chain (as well as non-supply chain) sustainability initiatives. It also investigates the extent to which supply chain...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how, as a multiple‐stakeholder partnership, public‐private community partnerships emerge as a holistic solution to address issues of water management. Design/methodology/approach – A pilot study was conducted to gain insight into the...