Efficiency evaluation of a safety department in a construction company-A case study: A DEA approach [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2015 Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a decision making tool based on linear programming for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of comparable units. DEA helps us identify the sources and level of inefficiency for each of the inputs and outputs. This
Solomon Odeyale
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Segmentation and profiling consumers in a multi-channel environment using a combination of self-organizing maps (SOM) method, and logistic regression [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 Market segmentation plays essential role on understanding the behavior of people’s interests in purchasing various products and services through various channels.
Seyed Ali Akbar Afjeh, Maryam Darvishi
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The effect of resource based view on sustainable capability advantage [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 Nowadays, it is important to achieve and to sustain an organization’s competitive advantage in complex environments. This paper evaluates different concepts that have led to such benefits.
Mostafa Jafari , Fatemeh Rezaee
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A study on relationship between working capital and profitability [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 This paper studies the relationship between working capital management and profitability of accepted corporations in Tehran Stock Exchange over the period 2008-2012.
Hassan Ghodrati, Jaber Ghanbari
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Lean manufacturing in Indian context: A survey [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2015 This paper is an attempt to examine the implementation of Lean Manufacturing system in the Indian industries. Predominant elements of Lean Manufacturing, benefits gained after its implementation and obstacles observed by Indian Industry have been ...
Rakesh Kumar, Vikas Kumar
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Barriers to international supply chain management in Iranian flower industry [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2015 The main purpose of this study was to determine the major barriers to international supply chain management in Iranian flower industry. The results of the research revealed that the most important barrier is lack of investment in Iranian flower ...
Arash Riasi
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Bank branch operating efficiency: evaluation with data envelopment analysis [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 Measuring the relative efficiency of similar units has been a popular research especially when the units were mostly non-financial. Even, similar financial units may not be necessarily evaluated based on traditional financial figures such as return of ...
Roozbeh Talebi Zarinkamar +1 more
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Investigating the effective factors on electronic trade by viral marketing [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 This paper performs an investigation to explore a number of strategies underpinning virtual marketing. The study also provides several suggestions for marketers seeking to use viral marketing to position brands or to change a brand’s image, to encourage ...
Nina Ghane +3 more
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Quality of financial information and liquidity [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 This paper examines the relationship between liquidity and quality of financial information by analyzing long-term trends in illiquidity measure for firms that restate their financial statements. The study uses a method developed by Amihud (2002) [Amihud,
Keyhan Maham, Fahime Safikhani
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An exploration study to detect important factors influencing on development of RFID in after sales services [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2014 Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the wireless use of electromagnetic fields to transfer necessary information, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to various objects.
Gholamreza Hashemzadeh +2 more
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