This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

The increase in the volume of information be handled by organisations has increased pressure on corporate boards to ensure that legislative, accountability, business and cultural requirements are met. Recent negative media coverage has brought demands for improved accountability and transparency in corporate governance regimes. At the same time agency theory has highlighted problems such as mor...

The recognition that knowledge is one of an enterprise’s most important assets, decisively influencing its competitiveness, has attracted interest in comprehensive approaches to the basis activities of Knowledge Management (KM) and corporate memories. During the design, construction and operation of any facility knowledge is gained and lessons are learned. Over time, organisations involved in t...

The extensive academic literature on innovation has long recognized product users as a potentially important source of ideas. While prior work has primarily focused on understanding the unique motivations and knowledge that allow users to generate their own innovations, we extend existing theory to investigate the contribution of users to corporate invention. We draw on the knowledge-based view...

introduction: food industry is one of the most important industries in developing countries that has an enormous role in employment, export and value added of the agricultural sector. iran as a developing country has a comparative advantage in food product industries for several reasons such as adequate and cheap raw materials and having several companies in the field of food industries. the fo...

Abstract Purpose The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the environmental impact and financial cost repairing surgical scissors. Methods We used life cycle assessment (LCA) analysis estimate impacts functional unit one use a reusable scissor (manufactured in Germany UK), three baseline scenarios were compared: no repair, onsite (hospital), offsite (external contract) repair. This ‘...

Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate complete set NTA results for immigrants natives five EU countries. We find that due lower labour income, which cannot be offset by consumption, experience a shorter independence period much aggregate lif...

Effective IT governance is an important requirement for strategic IT-based change. The extant literature focuses on which IT decisions should be governed and who is accountable for them. However, in multi-business organizations there is little theoretical guidance on which decisions should be made at the corporate and strategic business unit (SBU) levels, or when such decisions should be made a...