Current initiatives for e-commerce deployment in the construction industry are related to the establishment of business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces, which allow large communities of buyers and suppliers to meet and trade with each other. Even though these efforts have included aspects of interoperability, database management and security protocols, trading mechanisms in the supply chain have...

the primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using vmi-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. in this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the vmi-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

1 Summary Security of Supply is considered as one of the key objectives of European Energy Policy besides Climate Change and Economic Efficiency. Yet there are only few studies which attempt to quantify the term. In addition, quantitative studies are split between authors that look at technical risk and more recently also intermittency risks, usually using probabilistic models, and those focusi...

This paper presents a model of multi-product pricing for consumer security software. It highlights two aspects unique to this kind of software. The …rst is a supply-side e¤ect relating to the security software update process that alters its cost structure, and the second is a demand-side e¤ect relating to the fact that customers often get free substitutes for components of security software sui...

the purpose of this research is investigation of application of the arbitrage pricing theory and effect of unanticipated changes in a set of macroeconomic variables such as inflation rate, money supply, exchange rate, oil price, term structure and industrial production on expected security return in tehran stock exchange. in this research, data are analyzed quarterly for the period of 1997-2008...