The paper addresses which customer values, related to sustainable management of operation for Functional Products, are of interest during manufacturing companies’ marketing and sales processes. Based on an empirical study covering five manufacturing companies, a set of customer values, which are categorized using Hill’s [28] framework in order to understand whether they are important and why, i...

The market-based approach to manufacturing supply network planning focuses on the competitive attitudes of various enterprises in the network to generate plans that seek to maximize the throughput of the network. It is this competitive behaviour of the member units that we explore in proposing a solution model for a supplier selection problem in convergent manufacturing supply networks. We pres...

Technological innovation capability (TIC) is defined as a comprehensive set of characteristics of a firm that facilities and supports its technological innovation strategies. An audit to evaluate the TICs of a firm may trigger improvement in its future practices. Such an audit can be used by the firm for self assessment or third-party independent assessment to identify problems of its capabilit...

Large embedded systems like manufacturing halls or complex machines usually employ quite a number of embedded control units. These control units work together either implicitly or explicitly in order to achieve an overall task e.g. manufacturing or transporting some good. In addition, the system of embedded controllers might collaborate with usual personal computers or hosts running e.g. a prod...

The primary attempt of this paper is to evaluate the performance of manufacturing companies based on CVP (Cost-Volume-Profit) analysis in Bangladesh. To attain this purpose, 14 manufacturing companies have been surveyed from Textile Industry. This study has also been attempted to examine the influence of key indicators of CVP analysis in performance evaluation in textile industry. The study fin...

BACKGROUND Transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) penetrated the Turkish cigarette market due to trade and investment liberalization in the post-1980 period and eventually secured full control. Despite tobacco control policies put in place in reaction to accelerating consumption, TTCs reinforced their market power through a variety of strategies. This paper explores industry strategies that cou...