The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0144-3577.htm Supply chain risk management and performance A guiding framework for future development Bob Ritchie Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK, and Supply chain risk management and performance 303 Clare Brindley Head of Department, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose
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Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and
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2.2 The Basic Dynamic General Equilibrium Closed Economy 2.3 Golden Rule Solution 2.3.1 The Steady State 2.3.2 The Dynamics of the Golden Rule 2.4 Optimal Solution 2.4.1 Derivation of the Fundamental Euler Equation 2.4.2 Interpretation of the Euler Equation 2.4.3 Intertemporal Production Possibility Frontier 2.4.4 Graphical Representation of the Solution 2.4.5 Static Equilibrium Solution 2.4.6 Dynamics of the Optimal Solution 2.4.7 Algebraic Analysis of the Saddlepath Dynamics 2.5 Real-Business-Cycle
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C H A P T E R F I V E INTRODUCTION TO COST MANAGEMENT Activity-Based Costing and Management After studying this chapter, you should be able to . . . 1. Explain the strategic role of activity-based costing 2. Describe activity-based costing (ABC), the steps in developing an ABC system, and the benefits and limitations of an ABC system 3. Determine product costs under both the volume-based method and the activity-based method and contrast the two 4. Explain activity-based management (ABM)
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MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 4456-04 January 2004 Global Outsourcing of Professional Services Satwik Seshasai and Amar Gupta © 2004 by Satwik Seshasai and Amar Gupta. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection:
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THE BUCHAREST ACADEMY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TAUGHT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES PROJECT IMPORVEMENT FOR START-UPERS BUCHAREST 2013 Contents Introduction 3 Objectives 4 Work breakdown structure 6 Project cost plan 8 Project network map 11 Milestone & Gantt chart 18 Project organisation chart 22 Responsibility assignment matrix 28 Sources 31 * Introduction The company We are Iceberg Consulting SRL, a consultancy company that
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3.1. Binomial Option Pricing Model 3.2. Black-Scholes Model 3.2.1. Black-Scholes PDE Derivation 3.2.2. Black-Scholes Formula 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 3 3. Option Pricing Methodologies 4. Asian Option Pricing 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. Closed Form Solution (Black-Scholes Formula) QuantLib/Boost Monte Carlo Simulations Price Characteristics 8 8 10 11 14 5. Hedging 5.1. Option Greeks 5.2. Characteristics of Option Delta (Δ) 5.3. Delta Hedging 5.3.1. Delta-Hedging for 1 Day 5.4. Hedging Asian
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Ph.D. Research Proposal Area of Research: Human Resources GREEN HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN ANKLESHWAR CHEMICAL FACTORIES Table of Contents Page No. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION………………………………………………..03 1.1 What is Green?............................................................................................. .04 1.2 What is Green HRM?.................................................................................. .04 1.3 Why HR?............................
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Actes du GERPISA n°22 GLOBALIZATION STRATEGIES OF KOREAN MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF HYUNDAI Myeong-kee CHUNG The current issue in the world economy is characterized by globalization. Corporations have built up a world-wide network economy by promoting production and trade. An important cause for the globalizing trend of the world economy lies in relocation of production sites and management strategies of business. Firms need not only partnership with foreign companies in the
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Table of Contents Enterprise resource planning 5 ERP is short for enterprise resource planning 6 ERP Software Modules 6 Origin of "ERP” 7 Functional areas covered in “ERP” 7 Integrations 8 What is the basic structure of a good ERP solution? 9 Need for Enterprise Resource Planning - Why ERP? 11 ERP Overview 12 Why ERP 14 Selection Criteria of ERP 14 Implementation of ERP 15 CMMS 16 Work orders and CMMS 16 Inventory control and CMMS 17 Functions of CMMS 19 CMMS process
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