This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance process in electric power plants under the US SO2 cap and trade program. It investigates the hypothesis that advanced knowledge and technology dedicated to pollution abatement...

This paper considers the problem of dynamic pricing and ordering decisions for a durable product with multiple generations in a supply chain with one manufacturer and one retailer. The manufacturer introduces a new generation of the durable product before the last generation exits from the...

This work introduces a generalized model for evaluating and restoring feasibility in the execution of supply chain processes. The model was designed to provide automation to the disruption management function of Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) systems. The repair mechanism is based on a...

Energy and environmental technology is one of the most important debates among citizens and the government of Finland. As development of renewable energy utilization depends on geographical situation, the policy and strategic decisions of renewable promotion should focus more on regionals...

Il lavoro propone un’analisi dell’innovazione nei canali di marketing focalizzandosi su ciò che va inteso come innovazione per l’intero canale. Vengono seguite tre prospettive di analisi: una prospettiva tecnologica, riferita all’influenza della tecnologia nelle interazioni fra i membri...

With the increase of globalization in trading and online shopping, phony products are on the rise in the market. This article introduces a range of technologies that have been implemented in the supply chain to deter counterfeiters. Technology for both product authentication and tracing and...

The focus of this paper is to provide an analytical framework which can be used to investigate how financial risks affect the values of interconnected supply chain firms from a network perspective, and how financial risks affect the supply chain firms' profitability as well as the cash and...

Economists express profits as areas representing producer's surplus or consumer's surplus corresponding to a pair of supply and demand functions. A similar representation can be employed in a supply chain network where there can be several producers/suppliers and several consumers/retailers in...

Business Orientation essentially characterises the pervading culture or style of an organisation. There are many types of Business Orientation, such as marketing orientation, production orientation or relationship orientation. The dominant presence of any of these alternative types of Business...

Forecasts of demand are crucial to drive supply chains and enterprise resource planning systems. Usually, well-known univariate methods that work automatically such as exponential smoothing are employed to accomplish such forecasts. The traditional Supply Chain relies on a decentralized system...