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On the morning of September 11th, 2001, the United States and the Western world entered into a new era ‐ one in which large scale terrorist acts are to be expected. The impacts of the new era will challenge supply chain managers to adjust relations with suppliers and customers, contend with...
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experiencing high demand uncertainty in an inflexible production environment. Several solutions are proposed for this supply chain … to cope with high demand uncertainty. The customer order decoupling point, the product differentiation point and the …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to interpret the relationship between supply chain integration (SCI) and performance and to find empirical evidence of the moderating factors that affects said relationship, as well as to describe, classify, and discuss the empirical evidence....
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Purpose – The concept of uncertainty is a relevant yet little understood area within supply chain risk management. Risk … is often associated with uncertainty, but in reality uncertainty is a much more elaborate concept and deserves more in … nature of uncertainty in this context. Design/methodology/approach – The aim of the study is to link established theories of …
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uncertainty, more specifically, how to deal with sudden arrival of higher priority jobs that require immediate processing, in an …
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uncertainty are mediators. Findings Relative to people choosing from a small destination portfolio, people who choose from a large …
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Proposes that the understanding of innovation, as so far revealed by academics, has only given a limited insight into what really happens when people innovate. Previous studies have researched innovation using perspectives and methodologies which were unable to reveal what people actually do...
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survival, and levels of financial, competitive, and operational uncertainty. Findings Nascent entrepreneurs with more positive … of their future ventures. They also estimate lower levels of environmental uncertainty. Originality/value This research …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurs’ investment decisions under uncertainty in … hope increase the propensity to continue investments as do increased level of uncertainty. Embarrassment and strain do not … increase this propensity, however, high uncertainty decreases the propensity to continue investments. In contrast to the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate commitment escalation tendencies and magnitude in groups of entrepreneurship-minded decision makers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a software-based management simulation to expose 447 graduate business students in the USA...
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