literature reviews", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 19 Iss 5/6 pp. 664-682 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/SCM-12-2013-0478 Joakim Kembro, Dag Näslund, (2014),"Information sharing in supply chains, myth or reality? A critical analysis of empirical literature", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 44 Iss 3 pp. 179-200 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-09-2012-0287 Access to this document was granted through
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ECM62EKM: Organisational Behaviour and HRM |Module size |15 Credits, Level M | |Total student study hours |150 | |Pre-requisites and co-requisites |None | |Excluded Combinations
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OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FISHER EFFECT IN ZAMBIA (1992-2011) A Research Proposal for the Dissertation in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of The Degree of Master of Arts RESEARCHER: MEBELO MUTEMWA COMPUTER NO.: 531004482 SUPERVISORS: DR. C. NG’ANDWE DR. C. MPHUKA DATE: AUGUST, 2012. * ABSTRACT This study seeks to investigate the extent to which the Fisher Hypothesis holds in Zambia
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Supply chain encompasses several business entities including suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and customers concerned with ensuring the flow of raw materials, component parts or finished goods from the source to the final destination, organizations can no longer detached from these business entities (Adebayo, 2012). As stated by (Gunasekaran et al., 2003), companies cannot run away from being part of SCM in either
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Freakonomics Key Terms : Conventional Wisdom : Explanations generally accepted as true. Correlation : Relationship between two or more things which change (variables) and can be described mathematically; Refers to how closely sets of information or data are related. For example: Smoking has a high correlation with lung cancer. Freakonomics : Study of economics based on the principle of incentives. Incentives means of urging to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing. :A
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risen substantially. They found that those firms having lower debt have higher value than the firm, which has high debt. Thus, firm can maximize its value by choosing low debt or zero debt (Kinsman and Newman, 1998). The overall finding is that the relationship between a firm’s debt level and that of its industry does not appear to be of
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30/09/1123/09/10 Evaluate the tools and techniques that may be used by a system designer in a given context Use appropriate methods to produce a system design for a given scenario Provide suitable systems documentation for a design Discuss the CASE tools currently available Content: Week 1- 3 Week 4-5 Week 6-8 Week 9-12 SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE MODELS Traditional Waterfall Model Alternative Models Iterative; Spiral; Rapid Application Development; Prototyping; Joint Application Design;
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Regression Models Student Name Grantham University BA/520 – Quantitative Analysis Instructor Name April 6, 2013 Abstract This paper will refer to regression models and the benefits that variables provide when developing and examining such models. Also, it will discuss the reason why scatter diagrams are used and will describe the simple linear regression model and will refer to multiple regression analysis as well as the potential uses for this type of model.
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trade-offs between for example efficiency and flexibility. Scope change will be demonstrated to be a natural part of projects, and that managers who embrace it can benefit from the opportunities that arise. Using one live manufacturing project as a case example, the paper will conclude that both hard and soft paradigm stances in terms of project management can be accommodated under the activity theory banner of contradiction, giving rise to the potential transferability of this classification across
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1.0 Introduction A problem of leadership is clearly identified in the case study concerning the company OJuice. According to Bennis and Nanus (1985) a cited in Silverthorne and Wang (2001), in most of the case, a lack of leadership or an inefficient leadership model leads to high risks of failure for an organisation. The management problem relevant to OJuice is based on a leadership problem, which conducts to incomprehension between leader and employees, but also to an absence of creativity, which
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