The corporate competitive environment is being liberalized and globalized, therefore product life cycle is shortening. Markets are undertaking globalization and because of rapid changes in recent years, companies need to act more responsively to the market and customer demand as well as strengthen information exchange and communication systems in order to survive the highly competitive and spee...

There is a lot of thrill in a new area of research called Nanotechnology. The term nanotechnology describes a range of the technologies performed on a nanometer scale with widespread applications. Lot of research has been going on in finding nanomaterials. An area of research under this field is Nanocomposites. They are material made by mixing of two different materials (with different properti...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the integration and strategic alliance involving all the value-creating elements in the supply, manufacturing, and distribution processes from raw material extraction, the transformation process, and end user consumption. This paper explores the SCM activities carried out by electronic manufacturing organizations in Malaysia and determines the correlation betwee...

for the DRUID Summer Conference 2003 on Creating, Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The role of Geography, Institutions, Organizations Arne Isaksen, Agder University College, Groosevn. 36, 4876 Grimstad, and STEP, centre of innovation, Hammersborg tog 3, 0179 OSLO

Vacuum freeze-drying has been considered the best dehydration process for thermolabile products because it reduces nutritional and sensorial degradation. As water is removed from a pre-frozen product, a porous structure is formed, which results in a dehydrated product that has better properties when rehydrated.1 This technique springs up rapidly along with the development of refrigeration, vacu...

Based on a congruence model of organizational design, we argue that direct reporting relationships between plant managers and environmental quality managers, monetary incentives for environmental performance, and cross-functional coordination between environmental quality managers and business strategists will reduce plant-level toxic emissions. Empirical tests of these three relationships were...

Lean manufacturing is an important aspect used by the current companies to compete in the market. The high cost of production in many sectors has forced companies to offer their products at high prices thus failing to attract customers. Small and medium sized enterprises in Indian electronic and electrical industry face high competition challenges from international companies thus, application ...

Asus Tech. is the largest motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan. Hundreds of suppliers cooperate with the company in business. So that supplier selection is the most important function of a purchasing department in the enterprise. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the process of supplier selection may result in the great savings in both costs and man hours. In the concept of push and...

Research indicates that information technology (IT) governance is attracting enormous attention from practitioners and academics. This is fueled by the growing importance of IT governance in the delivery of IT compliance and in its ability to create value for businesses. IT compliance minimizes risk while IT governance manages risks. This paper is a preliminary report on an electronic survey of...