demand is assumed constant in the classical economic order quantity (eoq) model. however, in the real world, the demand is dependent on many factors such as the selling price, warranty of product and marketing effort. in addition pricing and ordering quantity decisions are interdependent for a seller when demand for the product is price sensitive in the inventory models. these types of models a...

the objective of the present research is to study the effect of the social capital on the competitive behavior of the companies with the applied nature. the research method is descriptive-analytic and has a correlational type.the statistical population of the research includes sixty managers of the food industry companies in hamedan. the statistical sample of the research includes fifty two man...

Wireless and mobile communications can save Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) significant time, money, and effort due to the mobility, flexibility, and ease of use mobile devices provide. SMEs that use such innovations can improve productivity, decrease costs, and enhance the quality of the business process. Lacking technical skills and financial resources, SMEs need special support from loca...

In the following essay I’m going to take a radical position concerning the tendency to eliminate psychoanalysis from the European Academic field and the failure of psychoanalysts and relational therapists to defend psychoanalysis from such aggression. My question is why in Italy—just to make a local example, which I am involved in—different kinds of psychoanalytical traditions are not able to d...

Changing demographics indicate a dramatic growth in Spanish speakers in the USA. There is an increasing need to provide valid neuropsychological evaluations to these individuals as well as interest in providing the same in Latin American countries. This is especially the case with symptom validity testing, in general, and those involved with litigation in particular. To address this situation, ...

social capital is a multi-faceted phenomenon in social sciences that massively affects many social fields. it can be a helpful factor in promoting health. among the groups with high burnout, nurses have always shown higher levels of burnout. studies have revealed that social capital can be an important factor affecting burnout. this study aimed to determine the extent of the effect of social ca...

117. An assessment of value for money for the 1993 to 1996 decommissioning scheme can be measured against a number of criteria. These include a further examination of what capacity would have been reduced in the absence of decommissioning (additionality both in actual and net cost terms), contributions to decommissioning expenditure from the Government, the European Commission and from fisherme...

We study a model of entrepreneurs who compete for venture capital (VC) funding in a setting where the VC can only finance the best entrepreneurs because of limited capital. With asymmetric information, VCs can only assess entrepreneurs by the progress of development, which, in equilibrium, reveals the quality of the new technology. Using an asymptotic analysis, we prove that in attractive indus...

This paper argues that a commitment to ‘shallow pockets’, namely by limiting the size of funds raised initially, may improve an investor’s ability to deal with entrepreneurial agency problems. Shallow pockets allow the investor to create competition for continuation finance between her portfolio entrepreneurs. Although this increases the investor’s ex post bargaining power vis-à-vis entrepreneu...

Lead time reduction is a key concern of many industrial buyers of capital facilities given current economic conditions. Supply chain initiatives in manufacturing settings have led owners to expect that dramatic reductions in lead time are possible in all phases of their business, including the delivery of capital materials. Further, narrowing product delivery windows and increasing pressure to ...