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stronger emphasis on relationship management as part of business strategy enables managers to manage uncertainty better …. Interestingly, increased information does not decrease the perception of uncertainty, but creates more uncertainty. As logistics is …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an update to the Supply Chain Volatility Index (SCVI), and expand on prior work by presenting a conceptual framework illustrating how firms can deal with persistent volatility, the ensuing risk and mitigate the cost implications for their supply...
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inherent uncertainty of the organizational problem being faced. Practical implications – The model suggests that a primary …
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sectors. Practical implications – The measure is directly related to a number of causes of uncertainty which helps freight … presents a novel approach to the assessment of the impact caused by uncertainty within freight transport operations.  …
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Purpose – There is a lack of consensus in conceptualizing and defining logistics flexibility as a distinct construct among supply chain scholars. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the existing literature on logistics flexibility. Design/methodology/approach – By taking a...
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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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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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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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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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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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