It is well known that ‘‘green’’ principles and strategies have become vital for companies as the public awareness increased against their environmental impacts. A company’s environmental performance is not only related to the company’s inner environmental efforts, but also it is affected by the suppliers’ environmental performance and image. For industries, environmentally responsible manufactu...

The modern-day project management has focused on the risks management due mainly to the complexities in nowadays projects. On this factual basis, recognizing and mitigating the most critical project risks assist in achieving more efficiency in the project management. Therefore, an effective project management system will help projects not to fail meeting their due dates, not to fall short on cu...

Today, organizations are experiencing problems due to advancements in the environment, community, economy, and technology. In future, physical virtual systems, including whole chain from product design distribution customers feedback will be required overcome for organizations. Thus, companies need comprehend apply Industry 4.0. The most frequently encountered situation literature is absence of...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.056 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 5712121x575 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y.-C. Sh (G.T.R. Lin), [email protected] (G.-H. Tzeng). This research aims to propose a hybrid process concerning the economic and industrial prospects along with critical technology streams toward a more effective selec...

Efforts to improve supply chain management processes, which have gained importance since the '90s, become an increasingly important phenomenon in today's competitive business life. Particularly due recent developments, attention has turned health sector and improvement efforts this sector. Supplier selection, is basic criterion of management, criteria that determine these choices are among issu...

Introduction: Utilization of dental service is a concept of expressing the extent of interaction between the service provider and the people for whom it is indented. However, one of the major issues in social welfare is the equitable provision of these services to the population. Aim: To determine the perceived barriers affecting access to the dental services in the dental institute. Materials ...

Sustainable supply chain management has become one of the significant areas concern for modern industries. Enterprises are now adopting that implements viable practices involving environmental protection and financial savings in a combined form. In this aspect, study focuses on detecting various concerns associated with sustainable diamond mining industry globally. These parameters classified b...

A primary concern of national R&D plans is to encourage technological development in private firms and research institutes. For effective R&D planning and program support, it is necessary to assess technological impacts that may exist both directly and indirectly among technology areas within the whole technology system; however, previous studies analyze only direct impacts among technologies, ...

BACKGROUND The project selection process is a crucial step for healthcare organizations at the moment of implementing six sigma programs in both administrative and caring processes. However, six-sigma project selection is often defined as a decision making process with interaction and feedback between criteria; so that it is necessary to explore different methods to help healthcare companies to...