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The Empirical Study on the Evolutionary Game Based Agricultural Products Supply Chain
Jun Sun, Ruben Xing. © 2017. 18 pages.
This research paper is to use a method of Evolutionary Game to investigate the relationship between a large supplier and a franchised supermarket in China. The authors would like to go through their empirical study with their filtered answers from the survey using SPSS software on agricultural supply...
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Debt Strategy Trends of Emerging Market Firms: Evidence from India
B. Rajesh Kumar, K.S. Sujit. © 2017. 16 pages.
Different industry sectors have high degree of variation with respect to financial leverage. The excessive use of financial leverage by firms had played a paramount role in the 2008 financial crisis. This study examines the average debt intensity of different industrial sectors during different time...
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Lean Policies in Route Planning and Scheduling of Waste Collection with Fuzzy Demand
Masoud Rabbani, Shadi Sadri. © 2017. 18 pages.
This study addresses a household waste collection routing problem with a heterogeneous fleet. The collection fleet includes hand carts and vehicles to transport wastes from houses to disposal sites. The authors attempt to enhance the system efficiency considering lean policies, which leads to...
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Key Success Factors of an SME's Multi-Site Organizational Restructuring: A Case Study Approach
Surajit Bag. © 2017. 20 pages.
Contemporary manufacturing supply chains face multiple challenges due to long, complex networks that operate internationally. Here, the focal company is an SME that has spread its network globally to reach mining customers with quality products within the shortest lead time. This study uses the case...
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Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Residents' Travel Carbon Emissions in Guangzhou
Jianfeng Lu, Jiahong Zhao, Haiyan Jiang. © 2017. 11 pages.
Transportation is an important source of carbon emissions. Since the level of urban traffic motorization enhanced quickly, the problem of carbon emissions derived from transportation has become a significant concern in recent years. It has become a key issue to study how to effectively reduce the...
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Framework for a Hospitality Big Data Warehouse: The Implementation of an Efficient Hospitality Business Intelligence System
Célia M.Q. Ramos, Daniel Jorge Martins, Francisco Serra, Roberto Lam, Pedro J.S. Cardoso, Marisol B. Correia, João M.F. Rodrigues. © 2017. 19 pages.
In order to increase the hotel's competitiveness, to maximize its revenue, to meliorate its online reputation and improve customer relationship, the information about the hotel's business has to be managed by adequate information systems (IS). Those IS should be capable of returning knowledge...
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Is the Character of Institutional Leadership Central to the Quality of Higher Education (HE) Management?
Nwachukwu Prince Ololube. © 2017. 19 pages.
This study employed a descriptive, empirical and suggestive approach. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the character of institutional leadership is central to the management of higher education (HE). First, the study x-rayed the role of character in institutional leadership and...
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Using TRIZ Systematic Innovation Methods for Redesign Services in Small and Medium Enterprises
Nadhmi Gazem, Azizah AbdulRahman, Faisal Saeed. © 2017. 15 pages.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in service sector take the lion share of the market compared to other sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing. The increasing number of SMEs in the service sector brought the competition in the market to its peak, which forced SMEs to invest in improving their...
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The Missed Chance to Cut Logistics Costs
Stefan Zetzmann, Karl Fein. © 2017. 15 pages.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the current characteristics of the distribution logistics sector, assess the current status of logistic collaborations, as well as the readiness of the industry for horizontal shipper collaboration. Reviewed case studies prove that these collaborations can cut...
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Fair Use Defences During Copyright Litigation: Is the Success of a Fair Use Defence Strategy Predictable?
Michael D'Rosario. © 2017. 21 pages.
The prediction of legal outcomes and other legal domain related variables has served as the basis of a number of recent studies. While recent studies have estimated standardised variables and dichotomous outcomes such as the outcome of a judicial decision process, few studies have employed dichotomous...
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Lessons Learned from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementations in an Australian Company
Ritesh Chugh, Subhash C. Sharma, Andrés Cabrera. © 2017. 13 pages.
Successful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations are a boon for organisations. However, there have been many instances of failed ERP implementations globally resulting in millions of wasted dollars. It is vital to learn from past ERP implementations so that such expensive mistakes are not...
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Predictive Skill Based Call Routing Using Multi-Label Classification Techniques
Vinay Kumar Kalakbandi, Sankara Prasad Kondareddy. © 2017. 13 pages.
This article is in the context of a call centre whose agents possess a heterogeneous skillset. The significant challenge for such a call centre would be skills based call routing: to match an inbound customer call to a call centre agent possessing the relevant skillset. This article will present an...
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A Study of Development and Formation of Personal Information Trust Service in Japan
Yutaka Mizuno, Nobutaka Odake. © 2017. 22 pages.
This paper examines a Personal Information Trust Service as a conceptual model of a Personal Data Service to unlock personal data from collection to use without privacy invasion. Personal Data Service is a service to let an individual store, manage, and deploy their key personal data in a highly secure...
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Quality Evaluation of Health Care Establishment Utilizing Fuzzy AHP
Mohammad Azam, Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi, Faisal Talib. © 2017. 38 pages.
Quality evaluation of healthcare establishment (HCE) is a difficult process as it involves multiple components of quality criteria with various factors and sub-factors therein. Further, the quality criteria are not universally standardized. The subjective evaluation in itself is not reliable as a tool...
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Microfinance and the Implications of the Global Economic Crisis
Ramesh Das. © 2017. 2 hrs 23 mins
Lack of access to banking and other related services can be debilitating to individuals, businesses, and countries as a whole. However, the effective application of microfinancial concepts can help to alleviate such problems. Microfinance and the Implications of the Global Economic Crisis explores...
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Research on Coordination Mechanism and Low-Carbon Technology Strategy for Agricultural Product Supply Chain
Liu Changchun. © 2017. 23 pages.
As the future orientation of economic and agricultural development, low-carbon agriculture is devoted to reducing the energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions during the agriculture production. So, it's urgent to take some actions to transit from the current high carbon economy to a low-carbon...
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Fuzzy Multi-Objective Supplier Selection considering Production Requirements in Resilient Supply Chain: Case Study in Steel Industry
Niloofar Katiraee, Babak Shirazi, Hamed Fazlollahtabar. © 2017. 19 pages.
One of the substantial concerns in any large scale enterprises is the process of evaluating, selecting and improving suppliers due to the involvement of many uncontrollable and unavoidable factors. To address this issue in industry, suppliers are selected in the context of a resilient supply chain...
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Impact of Outbound Logistics in Purchase Decision of Small Electronic Home Appliance Traders in Chittagong
Mohammad Naveed Ahmed. © 2017. 11 pages.
Outbound logistics focuses on the distribution to the point of sales, such as - collection, storage, and distribution systems etc. Marketers must understand – what the customer wants in terms of logistics and how it can create value to the customers? Based on this scenario, this study focuses on the...
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Emerging Technologies: An Exploration of Novel Interactive Technologies
Ndubuisi Ukwuani, Engie Bashir. © 2017. 14 pages.
The paper revises a collection of novel interactive technologies, known as post-WIMP. These technologies have been enormously cited in HCI research and recently adopted by enterprises to develop original applications in specific domain areas. The theoretical review of each technology includes a summary...
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Designing Models for Software as a Service in Cloud Computing
Jaymeen Shah, Hsun-Ming Lee, Vivek Shah. © 2017. 16 pages.
This paper details the case study of the model development at a company that offers software as a service (SaaS) to clients in the services industry. The growing market for SaaS provides the company tremendous opportunities to succeed as a startup. A new cloud-based system is aimed at facilitating the...
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Antecedents and Consequences of Customer Brand Engagement: An Empirical Study in the Mobile Headset Category
Souvik Roy, Santanu Mandal. © 2017. 20 pages.
Mobile phone markets are one of the most turbulent market environments today due to increased competition and change. Thus, it is of growing concern to look at consumer buying decision process and cast light on the factors that finally determine consumer choices between different mobile phone brands....
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Skills and Competencies Required for Jobs in Business Analytics: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements Using Text Mining
Linda A. Leon, Kala Chand Seal, Zbigniew H. Przasnyski, Ian Wiedenman. © 2017. 25 pages.
The explosive growth of business analytics has created a high demand for individuals who can help organizations gain competitive advantage by extracting business knowledge from data. What types of jobs satisfy this demand and what types of skills should individuals possess to satisfy this huge and...
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A Novel Fuzzy Integrated Customer Needs Prioritization Software Tool for Effective Design of Online Shopping Websites
Ashish K. Sharma, Sunanda Khandait. © 2017. 20 pages.
Albeit, online shopping has grown much recently, users' rate of satisfaction has declined due to the ineffective design of online shopping websites. Thus, the companies involved are craving for well-designed websites. Effective website design involves decision making and thus this paper considers...
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Algorithms for Selecting the Optimum Dataset While Providing Personalized Privacy and Compensation to its Participants
Rajeev Kumar. © 2017. 16 pages.
The privacy preserving microdata sharing literature has proposed several techniques that allow a database administrator to share a dataset in a privacy preserving manner. This paper considers the implications of adding a market layer to that setting. In this setting, individuals (data providers) can...
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Resource Availability Modeling and Optimization in a Car Park Management Problem
Christoforos Salagaras, Vasilis P. Koutras, Nikos S. Thomaidis, Vassilios Vassiliadis, Agapios N. Platis, Georgios Dounias, Constantine Kyriazis. © 2017. 22 pages.
This paper addresses the modeling and optimization of resource availability in car parks, serving different priority classes of customers. The authors examine various formulations of the problem concerning two general objectives: a) increasing the availability for high priority customers and b)...
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