the major aim of this research is benchmarking honeywell federal manufacturing &technologies; projects using data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and to compare the results with that of published recently in qing cao, james j. hoffman qing cao, james j. hoffman. (2011). a case study approach for developing a project performance evaluation system. international journal of project management...

In today’s highIy competitive and constantly growing market for software products, planning and scheduling of large software projects has become a bottleneck to increasing production productivity [1331. This work is to investigate the mechanisms required to support software project planning and scheduling (SPPS). Our approach is to 1. define SPPS as a reactive pmcess that involvw human negotiat...

A. Model of International Lender’s Response To Liquidity Shocks The objective of my model is to formalize the idea that bank ownership a¤ects the provision of …nancing after a liquidity shock. The key assumption in the model is that owners can control the investment decisions of banks in which they have equity holdings, but arm’s-length lenders cannot. This assumption is motivated by the di¢ cu...

While most models with financial market imperfections predict investment by financially constrained firms to be more sensitive to financial variables, contracting models argue that investment by such firms should be more sensitive to fundamental determinants of investment because fundamentals capture both investment opportunities and changes in the financial position. By first grouping U.S. man...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

RFID technology promises to improve a broad range of processes in logistics and manufacturing. However, market acceptance of RFID develops slower than anticipated. One likely reason is the difficulty to evaluate the resulting effects beforehand. A lot of research has already been conducted on how to assess costs and benefits of RFID investments. But until now the focus has mainly been on logist...

The standard real–options model predicts that increased uncertainty discourages investment. When projects are large and take time to build, however, that prediction can be reversed. We investigate the investment/uncertainty relationship empirically using historical data on opening dates of new U.S. copper mines — large, irreversible projects with substantial construction lags. Both the timing o...