To inform the design of groupware technologies such as those for cooperative buildings, we investigated the work habits of teams that collaborate in dedicated project rooms. We conducted field work that included interviews of teams in 9 U.S. companies who had dedicated project rooms and a 6 week observation of one site. In our study, team members using dedicated project rooms reported clear adv...

The European Ethical Review Committee, which concerns itself with the standards applicable to clinical trials with medicinal products, was established in 1977 and, as the name suggests, draws its membership from the countries of Europe. Its structure comprises a Board and panels of experts representing internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, general practice, nursing, legal and lay persons. B...

Lean Manufacturing has helped several industries to achieve operational and manufacturing excellence by increasing productivity and enhancing quality, while reducing waste and costs. However, the wood industry has been historically slow in adopting this philosophy and its many tools. In times when overseas competition has taken big portions of the traditional market share for U.S based wood ind...

This study explores the influence of board independence, board size, CEO duality, board diligence, board financial expertise and presence of audit committee as well as the type of sector on the timeliness of financial reports among selected Jordanian companies. The timeliness of the financial reports is measured by audit report lag (ARL) and management report lag (MRL). This study covers 112 fi...

To be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. Pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. So these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...

According to the provisions of Code Commercial Companies (i.e. Art. 385), Supervisory Board must be composed at least three members and, with regard public law companies, five members. The problem occurs when above-mentioned entity is a minimum number and one them makes statement on his resignation from Board’s membership. Hence, company’s merely two moment such has been made, i.e. it unable un...

Supply chain contracts, such as the markdown money policy (MMP), are commonly adopted in the fashion industry. In this paper, we explore how fashion companies can use MMP to enhance economic sustainability from the cross-cultural perspective. We conduct case studies on two fashion firms (suppliers), one from China and one from U.S.A., that are adopting MMP in their respective supply chains. Via...

This research aimed to assess the influence of expertise boards directors and executives on manufacturing companies' performances in Indonesia. The independent variable set was Director Executive Expertise measured by proportion board members who have academic degrees (graduate postgraduate) professional certifications business finance, while dependent Firm Performance Return Assets, Equity, To...

Sales forecasting is a common topic in business. Our task is predicting a famous drug company daily sales for 1,115 stores located across Germany for six weeks in advance. Store sales are influenced by many factors. Our project aims to create a robust prediction model. Based on Gradient Boosting and Random Forest, our model performs well in this sales forecasting competition with resulting in r...

In November, 1963, a small private symposium met at Johns Hopkins Univers^ to explore what were the major problems in making safe and effective drugs avails. from both the academic and industrial fields were present. In addition, the gt?f. included economists, the president of a drug company, lawyers and an Eng'1^ social scientist (Professor Richard Titmuss). In the course of their deliberation...