Single-vendor commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Single-vendor commercial open source at first glance represents an economic paradox: How can a firm earn money if it is making its product available for free as open source? This paper presents the core p...

Problem, research strategy, and findings Markets have been central to civilization, fostering trade social life. Although markets take a variety of forms sizes, existing planning does not engage with flea swap meets. In this study we explore four Latino vendor (LVMs), classified as or meets, in two predominantly states, California Texas. We analyze through the lens place attachment from three p...

the purpose of this article is to investigate a two-echelon supply chain inventory problem consisting of a single-vendor and a single-buyer with controllable lead time and investment for quality improvements. this paper presents an integrated vendor-buyer inventory model in order to minimize the sum of the ordering cost, holding cost, setup cost, investment for quality improvement and crashing ...

Business Intelligence (BI) vendors have often asserted that the use of their tools can lead to organizational transformation. This paper compares the vendor literature on the topic with two management theories. The results of a content analysis of the vendor literature are presented, followed by an overview of dynamic capability theory and absorptive capacity. This comparison shows that the BI ...

1 Background With the remarkable and ever increasing technology growth, we need various products and services from different vendors, such as: • Home appliances • Furniture • Mobile • Internet To deliver these products and provide services, representatives from concerned companies visit our place. We somehow need to ascertain if the person visiting is an authentic representative from the concer...

With the increased competition in the global supply chain, the significance of vendor selection based on supply chain risk management has reached the agreement. The structure of this study is to categorize the recent researches according to the supply chain risk management, vendor selection and vendor selection under supply chain risk. Further, this paper offers a conceptual framework to summar...

The objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. This study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in obtaining criteria weights and applied Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) for obtaining final ranking...

abstractin this study, a vendor-managed inventory model is developed for a single-vendor multiple-retailer single-warehouse (sv-mr-sv) supply chain problem based on the economic order quantity in which demands are stochastic and follow a uniform probability distribution. in order to reduce holding costs and to help balanced on-hand inventory cost between the vendor and the retailers, it is assu...