Business process compliance management has recently grabbed a lot of attention in both business and academia as it helps organizations not only to control and monitor their business processes from a legal point of view but also to avoid financial penalties and undesirable consequences to their reputation. Balancing compliance obligations with business objectives remains however a difficult chal...

while the conventional dea based production plans aim to minimize all the inputs consumption and maximize all the outputs production, there are many real world production systems may also generate undesirable by-products. one methodological difficulty associated with the previous dea-based production planning models is how to incorporate undesirable factors in the planning models, while the sim...

data envelopment analysis (dea) is an efficient method to perform evaluation of units. in dea we try to evaluate units with undesirable factors in input & outputs by satisfaction function, testing some models. on the other hand benefiting this concept, we can identify non-efficient units. also we can recognize why these units are inefficient and calculate the reason of their inefficiency and ho...

In Project Management field “Risk management” has been known as the best and most imperative exercise for accomplishment of virtuous enactments construction projects in Pakistan. Achievement requisite objectives enumerated by getting its recital relationships Quality, Cost Time protection sustainability areas. Construction development improvements Pakistan, large territory world have a high ris...

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As project management scholars, we should not automatically assume that theories borrowed from other fields will produce desirable results when applied to the domain. To illustrate this, I focus on problem of escalation and discuss how three have been widely touted as producing good outcomes in may undesirable consequences context. argue backfire, this creates an opportunity for scholars expose...

Different from traditional efficiency research and previous studies considering undesirable outputs, this paper proposes models which distinguish weak and strong disposability features among various undesirable outputs based on the technical nature of the undesirable outputs. The paper illustrates the approach using a research sample covering 582 base-load Chinese coal-fired power plants in 200...

This study examined the relationship between socially desirable and undesirable components of masculinity and femininity, and their effects on psychological well-being among 366 Chinese university students. Results indicated that the undesirable traits of one gender were negatively correlated with the desirable traits of the opposite gender. Desirable masculinity predicted psychological well-be...