The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of both target market and product complexity on the production activities in an industrial goods company of Brazil. Nine projects developed and manufactured by the company were monitored and their pertaining data collected, according to the planning of a factorial experiment involving two independent variables (target market and product com...

CENTRAL QUESTION OF TI-IL DAY is whether U.S. business firms are capable of success in highly competitive world markets. The question is embedded in hotly debated calls for the United States to develop an explicit industrial pohcv, in frequently expressed concerns about our loss of market leadership in the computer chip, television and automobile industries, and in charges of excessive executiv...

Internet of Things (IoT) is innovation in the field of Communication where a number of intelligent devices are involved sharing information and making collaborative decision. IOT is going to be a market-changing force for a wide variety of real-time monitoring applications, such as E-healthcare, homes automation system, environmental monitoring and industrial automation as it is supporting to a...

In Sec. 1 we summarize a few key properties of geometric Brownian motion that were pointed out in (Peters, 2010). We indicate the main elements of the analogy that is often drawn between this and the dynamics of markets. Section 2 introduces the concept of stochastic efficiency, namely the hypothesis that the properties of price fluctuations in real markets are strongly constrained by stability...

1 Why Examine IIoT Software Stack? 2 Get to Market Quickly with Pre-Tested Configurations 2 Leverage an Embedded Database for Decision-Making Efficiency 2 Don’t Compromise Reliability 3 Think Beyond Local Data on the Device 4 Optimize for Performance 5 Protect Lifetime of Vulnerable Flash Memory-based Storage 5 Conclusion 6 About the Contributing Companies Optimize Your Software Stack for Indus...

Combinatorial auctions are promising auction formats for industrial and public procurement. Potential advantages of using combinatorial auctions include lower overall spend, low transaction costs for multi-item negotiations, fairness and market transparency for suppliers, as well as high allocative efficiency. A number of fundamental design considerations are relevant to the application of comb...

to measure an unbiased farm-specific efficiency of individual dairy farmers, a shadow-price profit frontier adjusted for market distortion was applied to a sample of 860 iranian small intensive dairy farms surveyed in 2005-2006. this measure was then compared with that of unadjusted measure that assumes undistorted market. a multiple general linear model (glm) technique was applied to the data ...

Today, the pressure is on enterprises to meet environmental targets. The prospect of losing business if sustainability objectives are not met is very real. This is leading to a future where top environmental performers will become market leaders. To remain competitive, companies need to produce goods in an energy efficient manner. This paper examines industrial efficiency improvement measures t...

Article history: Received 10 October 2012 Received in revised form 14 October 2013 Accepted 23 March 2014 Available online 12 April 2014 We examine how an exogenous improvement in market efficiency, which allows the stock market to obtain more precise information about the firm's intrinsic value, affects the shareholder–manager contracting problem, managerial incentives, and shareholder value. ...

abstract producing of flowers and ornamental plants in iran has some challenges and failure in the market structure and marketing of these products. in this study, we evaluated the different marketing channels of flowers and ornamental plants in the existing market structure according to economic criteria and the characteristics of market structure. cut-rose and esfahan province were selected a...