The remnants of primeval Norway spruce forests in the European temperate zone are crucial for maintaining forest biodiversity in high mountain landscapes. This paper presents results of a multidisciplinary research and evaluation project on the management practices for mountain spruce forests in the Natura 2000 site (National Nature Reserve Serak-Keprnik in the Hruby Jesenik Mountains, the Czec...

introduction: today, human resources are the most important competitive advantage of organizations. therefore, university administrators should be aware of how to effectively use this strategic factor and advantage. however, innovation is also a valuable tool in confronting uncertainty, and responding to and impacting the external environment. the aim of the present study was to determine the s...

In this paper, the authors study the inventory control practices of a small-to-medium retailer to identify common challenges this type of organization experiences with respect to automated data capture (ADC) and the implementation of an enterprise wide information system. The study explores a single case of a hardware store in a regional town in New South Wales, Australia. Four semi-structured ...

Managing inventories is crucial to the objective of minimizing supply chain costs. This paper presents an approach for setting inventory norms in context of a real-life case of an industry which practices Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI). The role of warehouses and the inventories held by them becomes significant in such an environment. This paper presents a two-phase approach to determine variou...

Inventory management has frequently been targeted by researchers as one of the most pivotal problems in supply chain management. With the expansion of research studies on inventory management in supply chains, perishable inventory has been introduced and its fundamental differences from non-perishable inventory have been emphasized. This article presents livestock as a type of inventory that ha...

The current study aims to analyze waste characteristics and management practices of the hotel industry in Hoi An, a tourism city in the center of Vietnam. Solid wastes from 120 hotels were sampled, the face-to-face interviews were conducted, and statistical methods were carried out to analyze the data. The results showed that the mean of waste generation rate of the hotels was 2.28 kg/guest/day...

As green human resource management is known as a way of promotion of sustainable employee practices with the help of interface of every employee, there has always been a question in mind why in some societies green human resource management practices cannot be implemented effectively. The purpose of this paper is to find factors affecting green human resource management practices as barriers to...

The rise of the Internet has revolutionized the manner in which retailers operate. The early stages of the dot com era allowed businesses to experiment with different business models. Internet retailers focused on front-end activities, overlooking the importance of back-end operations such as supply chain management. Retailers have the option to distribute their products via the traditional met...

backgroundresearchers have found that management safety practices may predict occupational injuries and psychological distresses in the workplace. the present study examined the perception of management safety practices related to injuries reporting and its dimensions among workers of isfahan steel company (esco).     methods a self-administered anonymous survey was distributed to 189 workers. ...