Purpose: Firms have increasingly been using postponement as one of the supply chain strategies to respond to rapid changes in customers’ demands. The purpose of this study is to identify the optimum level of postponement in the context of two-stage modular manufacturing setting, given the...

The underlying philosophy of goal programming deals with multiobjective scenario which occurs in day-to-day life. As management is a field which is closely related to everyday life, it faces the similar problem of optimization of multiple objectives. Hence, in this field, there are several...

The study analyzes the variation of performance with respect to the variation of the percentage of shares held by the promoters. The study also examines whether a firm’s affiliation to certain business groups affects its performance. The sample consists of 200 IT firms; and the study covers...

Determining the optimum number of suppliers and the optimum quantities to order from each of them is a critical problem for any supply chain. This paper has mathematically arrived at conditions to identify the appropriate sourcing strategy in a multi-period scenario for a stochastic supply and a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a scale for measuring consumers’ perceived service value in the Indian retail banking services. This purpose is rooted in the absence of consensus on what constitutes service value and how to measure such value in the above...