In this paper, seven remanufacturing companies are compared from a lean process perspective. Most of the companies experienced uncertainty regarding how many and when the cores arrived at the remanufacturing facilities, making planning more difficult. Furthermore, the companies reported high inventory levels as a problem. Hence, the companies often had a high number of cores, spare parts or hal...

The internationalization of a company is a complex endeavor. However, because of the special characteristics of the software industry, the internationalization of a software company can be particularly critical to its success. This study is among the first to employ institutional theory to analyze a software company’s degree of internationalization. An analysis based on the survey of 306 German...

Economics depends on the economic scale of planning. Economists study the characteristics of the production function, while community operating management focuses on demand realization, so that loss of sales or inventory prevents cost reductions and maximizes profits. However, companies with a lack of capacity need to achieve economies of scale and demand to realize them simultaneously, especia...

In the past decade, with the unprecedented growth in tech companies and advances in cloud computing, it has become increasingly common for companies to incorporate virtualization in their data centers to fully utilize their hardware resources. As a result, virtualization and virtualization security have gone through major transforms in the recent years. Virtualization and its unique architectur...

Offshore software outsourcing, a major contributor to globally distributed work (GDW), has been identified as one of the most striking manifestations of contemporary globalisation. In particular, offshoring resonates with influential views that suggest that ICTs have rendered location irrelevant. Some research, however, has questioned this “placeless logic” and suggested that location may be si...

Between 2003 and 2007, the value of shares of Indian companies held by foreigners went up by roughly 13 times. This paper seeks to explain this event. A simple decomposition of changes in the value of foreign shareholding suggests a negative contribution owing to changes in insider shareholding (which actually went up), with the bulk of the change being contributed by the rise in Indian market ...

This study was undertaken with the purpose of measuring intranet effectiveness in selected Malaysian companies. Defining effectiveness as composite constructs of intranet characteristics, intranet usage and individual performance, the study employed a cross-sectional survey method. A total of 359 users participated in the study. The intranet characteristics namely, task fit, information quality...