Economic growth has helped lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. However, many people remain poor, unable to effectively participate in or benefit from economic growth despite being economically active as workers, producers and consumers. Structural inequalities and other constraints – including policy, legal and cultural environments – mean that they lack the inputs, services, skills devel...

Many factors affect retail outlet profitability, including market potential, distribution and product costs, market pricing levels, cost (and availability) of land or space and the relationship between share of outlets and share of markets. A model is presented which was used to plan building decisions for outlets for a consumer product across time and across market arez The model has been in u...

The concept of a supply chain exists for over twenty years but partners and configuration selection process still is rather unstructured. In order to increase value in any supply chain, a more comprehensive and integrative approach is required to select the right partners and establish the right configuration along the chain. Under economic growth wrong decisions does not jeopardize profitabili...

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a Departamento de Organización de Empresas y Mercadotecnia. University of Vigo, Spain b Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Neurológicas. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain c Unit of Biostatistics, Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain d Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS). Santiago de Compostela, Spain...

A great number of strategy tools are being taught in strategic management modules. These tools are available to managers for use in facilitating strategic decision making and enhancing the strategy development process in their organisations. A number of studies have been published examining which are the most popular tools; however there is little empirical evidence on how their utilisation inf...

The objective of this Synthesis Report is to identify the major theoretical and practical developments dealing with Airport Capacity and Efficiency optimisation and improvement. Furthermore, it is within the scope of this document to identify and present the major institutional / organizational and technical / operational factors associated with Airport Capacity and Efficiency, explore research...

In SJIS volume 20 (2008), Mathiassen and Nielsen analyzed engaged scholarship in Scandinavian IS research. They conclude that the collaborative research practice and tradition for conducting action research projects might be jeopardized by a recent and general tendency to publish in compliance with traditional IS research publication channels: Investing a substantial amount of time in collabora...

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