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Emergence of green supply chain management could be attributed to the rising public awareness of environmental problems. Consumers say they increasingly prefer to purchase products that are produced with a minimum of pollution and with minimal environmental impact. Therefore, companies that successfully adopt a green policy can generate profits, reduce environmental impact, and provide positive...

Research background: If globalization presents really a new and not reversible process that creates more homogenous world, strategies of enterprises should appropriate to this phenomenon, too. European legislation has significantly contributed the creation mutual market increasing freedom movement services within Union. This paper examines issue using BSC system methodology in strategic managem...

The National Embryo Donation Center [4] (NEDC) is a non-profit organization [5] that was established in 2002 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The organization [5] is endorsed and supported by several Christian-based associations such as the Christian Medical Association [6], Bethany Christian Services, and Baptist Health Systems. Its goal is to provide embryo donation [7] and embryo adoption [8] servic...

A financial model for analyzing the dynamics of profit in trade is proposed, taking into account mutual influence factors that determine effectiveness commodity movement, and allowing to obtain indicators further comprehensive assessment development organization

This paper extends development of the Organization Exchange Model (OEM), an enterprise model that posits resource exchanges are the defining property of organizations. Several network analysis techniques are suggested to support analysis of organizations modeled as networks of exchanges. A case study of a non-profit retail organization demonstrates the model’s use for organizational analysis. A...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether for-profit status influenced hospitals' care or outcomes among non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients. BACKGROUND While for-profit hospitals potentially have financial incentives to selectively care for younger, healthier patients, perform highly reimbursed procedures, reduce costs by limiting access to expensive medications,...

Two organizational structures for a retail chain are examined for their effect on the rate of firm innovation. A centralized organization is defined as one in which store practices are mandated from corporate headquarters (HQ) and this results in HQ being the sole source of new ideas. A decentralized organization gives freedom to store managers to adopt their own ideas and disseminates innovati...

CONTEXT Physical inactivity is a major public health problem. While individual (eg, attitudes, values, beliefs) and social (eg, social support) factors play a role, access to an activity-safe local environment can have a significant influence. Environments that include accessible opportunities for physical activity, a component of livability, require cooperation from many sectors including nonp...

We demonstrate a negative relationship between pro-market reforms and the sustainability of superior profits in an emerging economy. The decline in sustainability of superior profits shows that pro-market reforms bring significant threats in addition to the various opportunities such as greater availability of production factors and greater freedom to enter and operate businesses highlighted in...