Logistics-production, logistics-marketing and external integration: Their impact on performance [PDF]
Highly competitive environments are leading companies to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM) to improve performance and gain a competitive advantage.
Cristina Giménez, Eva Ventura
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International Financial Integration and Crisis Intensity [PDF]
This paper analyzes the causes of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. The analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries. It is found that more financially integrated countries do not seem to have suffered more during the most serious macroeconomic ...
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d‐Allulose can be produced from d‐fructose by d‐allulose 3‐epimerase. Based on sequence homology information, we successfully engineered thermostable mutants with the protein engineering method. By integrating positive mutations, we constructed an enzyme that exhibits hyperthermostability without a loss in the activity.
Kensaku Shimada+3 more
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Supply chain integration and firm performance: the moderating role of demand uncertainty
Supply chain integration (SCI) has become increasingly important among firms. Several studies have addressed SCI’s effect on firm performance. However, many moderating factors such as demand uncertainty can influence its effect.
Rosa Hendijani, Reza Saeidi Saei
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EXPERIENCE OF ROMANIA IN THE ELABORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DOMESTIC POLICIES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: LESSONS FOR THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA [PDF]
This article represents an analysis of the experience of Romania in accession and integration of the state into the European Union. It is a tentative to identify Romanian domestic policies of European integration.
Cristina Morari
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The Southern African Development Community and its Relations to the European Union. Deepening Integration in Southern Africa? ZEI Discussion Papers C169, 2007 [PDF]
[From the Introduction]. While the aim of deepening integration in Southern Africa seems quite evident, the question remains what challenges SADC will face on its way.
Kosler, Ariane.
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The impact of post-merger integration on the customer-supplier relationship [PDF]
While the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on internal stakeholders has generated considerable empirical study, comparatively little academic attention has been paid as to how external stakeholders such as customers are affected by, and respond ...
Kato, Junichi, Schoenberg, Richard
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Internal models of sensorimotor integration regulate cortical dynamics
Sensorimotor control during overt movements is characterized in terms of three building blocks: a controller, a simulator and a state estimator. We asked whether the same framework could explain the control of internal states in the absence of movements.
Seth W. Egger+3 more
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White Christian Nationalism: Adult Education and Threats to Democracy
ABSTRACT Adult education has a historical and ongoing commitment to fostering democratic relationships, demonstrated by the tendency of adult education to be called upon when social change and realignment are most desirable. This article considers the philosophical and pragmatic possibilities for adult education at this moment, when White Christian ...
Ralf St. Clair, Lyn Tett, Rob Black
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The corporate growth is an important measure of the sustainable growth ability. Most of the existing literature discusses the influence of single factor on the corporate growth.
Xiaonan Fan, Ye Wang, Huiling Jiang
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