Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

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Need for Flexibility and Innovation in Healthcare Management Systems

Subhash Wadhwa, Jitendra Madaan, Avneet Saxena

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 45-54

There are tremendous benefits to view a healthcare system as a flexible system. It helps to promote innovations towards greater quality of service as well as better utilization of the resources. Healthcare System (HCS) in India needs to promote improved customer services, greater collaborations within Health System, improved HCS system designs, re-engineering of the conventional processes, greater...

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Assessing International Success and National Competitive Environment of Shrimp Industries of India and Thailand with Porter’s Diamond Model and Flexibility Theory

Silpa Sagheer, S. S. Yadav, S. G. Deshmukh

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 31-43

National environment plays a significant role in ensuring “international success” and “competitiveness” of an industry. Flexibility is a paradigm with a dynamic interaction capacity and is relevant in competitiveness analysis studies. This paper is an attempt to assess the shrimp industries of India and Thailand, with the help of the two theories of flexibility and competitiveness. The results provide...

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A Global Competitiveness Study of Thai Securities Industry: A Case Study of Factors Influencing Investors’ Loyalty to Securities Companies in Bangkok

Opas Piansoongnern, Pacapol Anurit

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 1-16

Since the Free Trade Agreement is utilized as the spearhead of the powered country to penetrate the market. Thai securities industry is targeted as the potential one. But in the industry, however, nothing has been changed concerning relationships between the marketers and investors. Investors always pay their loyalty to the marketer rather than to the brokerage firm. A major problem is that investors...

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Managing Change: A Case of Indian Engineering Industry

R. K. Garg, Sumit Jain

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 65-79

In the era of globalization, the whole world appears to be a global village. After globalization and liberalization, many Multi National Companies have entered in various sectors in Indian market. As a result, a strong competition has emerged between Indian companies and multinational companies. The strong financial background, technological capabilities and international reputation have helped them...

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Knowledge Management in Development Projects: A Case Study of HIDECOR Project in India

Surinder Batra

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 55-64

The importance of knowledge management (KM) in developing business strategies for corporate sector has been widely written about in the literature. However, the concepts, technologies and processes of KM are equally valid for development projects, which aim at making an impact on socio-economic conditions of the identified target groups. Specifically, for development projects to be successful, it...

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Special Issue — GLOGIFT 06

Abid Haleem

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > iii-iii

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The Impact of Top Management Commitment on Total Quality Management Practice: An Exploratory Study in the Thai Garment Industry

Mesbahuddin Chowdhury, Himangshu Paul, Anupam Das

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 1-2 > 17-29

Over the last three decades quality management has been increasingly viewed as a critical competitive weapon by firms around the world. Commitment of top management has been cited as one of the most important factors impacting the success for implementation of total quality management practice in a firm. This has been claimed by practicing quality gurus such as Deming, Juran and Crosby. In this research...

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A Genetic Algorithm Based Scheduling for a Flexible System

S. Wadhwa, J. Madaan, R. Raina

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 3 > 15-24

Based on the rapid technical development in the last decade, the automation in many areas of production and distribution has developed significantly. This leads to complex situations where decisions have to be taken within a short time and among several alternatives - often without the human intervention. This paper considers flexible system as a mixed model flexible flow line, where ‘n’ independent...

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Impact of New Technology and Sourcing Practices in Managing Tactical and Strategic Manufacturing Flexibilities - An Empirical Study

J. S. Oberoi, J. S. Khamba, R. Kiran

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 3 > 1-14

Manufacturing flexibility is widely recognized as a critical component to achieve a competitive advantage in the market place and improves an organization capability to respond to customer demands without incurring excessive time and cost penalties. The objective of this paper is to understand and explicate the interaction between advanced manufacturing technology, sourcing practices and manufacturing...

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Indian Implementation of Alternative Refrigerant Technology: A Dynamic Analysis

M. N. Karimi, Abid Haleem

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 3 > 39-48

In this communication, the dynamic behaviour of implementation of new non-ODS (Ozone Depleting Substance) technology for domestic refrigerator and car air-conditioning sector of India has been considered. Protocols formed under the guidance of the environment program based on research findings, are international market bindings between developed nations and developing nations. India signed the Montreal...

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Linkages of Technology Adoption and Adaptation with Technological Capability, Flexibility and Success of AMT Implementation in Indian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Study

A. P. S. Sethi, J. S. Khamba, R. Kiran

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 3 > 25-38

Technological capability represents the abilities of productive enterprises to handle industrial technologies and cope with technological change. There are many reports that deal with the technological and operational aspects of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT), but the adoption and adaptation as key phase in the implementation of AMT for developing technological capabilities, achieving flexibilities...

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Principles of Flowing Stream Strategy

Sushil

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 3 > iii-iv

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From Learning Organization to Enlightened Organization

Sushil

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 4 > iii-iii

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Flexible Process Planning Approaches for Sustainable Decisions in Reverse Logistics System

Jitendra Madaan, S. Wadhwa

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 4 > 1-8

Due to recent changing environmental requirements affecting supply chain operations. Managing product returns has received wide spread attention from both practitioner and academicians. This paper investigates the sustainable approaches leading to the development of an integrated flexible reverse logistics system. In order to develop sustainable process as a competitive initiative, various approaches...

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System Modeling for Flexibility in IT Policy — A Case Study of NIIT Limited

P. K. Baboo

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 4 > 17-28

In the modern world, Information Technology (IT) plays a vital role in the decision-making system. The design of IT depends on the analysis of the system where it is to be implemented. In the competitive market, if a system remains static, then it becomes almost impossible to reach the goal. The system design should be such that depending upon the time and requirement the variables and parameters...

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Systems Approach for Water Resources Development

Q. Hassan, N. K. Garg

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 4 > 29-43

Rapid increase in population and continued economic development have caused increased demands of water, putting pressure and resulting in the deterioration of the quality of this precious natural resource. Water availability greatly influences the health of the people and development potential of the area. In the past, problems were identified and addressed in isolation even without considering their...

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Excellence through Accreditation in Indian B-Schools

B. S. Sahay, Rajiv R. Thakur

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2007 > 8 > 4 > 9-16

Within the existing quality divide amongst the Indian Business schools, few leading schools have attained a threshold quality level and are on the path of global excellence. It is imperative to narrow down the existing quality divide in the country as well as for leading business schools to strategically level up with the standards and quality of leading business schools globally. This paper analyzes...

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Japan’s Health-care Service Quality and the Death-Valley Strategy of Biotech Start-ups

Takao Fujiwara

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2008 > 9 > 1 > 1-10

Japan has the aging population as a near future critical problem. One of start-up functions is more rapid commercialization of life science than large corporations do. However, its innovation depends on the inefficiency as the fecundity and many deaths. In Japan, the number of biotech start-ups exceeded more than 300, mainly due to the national reform of the system of technologytransfer from universities...

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Mapping Flexibility in Retail Strategy

Ranjan Chaudhuri

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2008 > 9 > 1 > 11-20

Flexibility is an important concept when conducting business or managing distribution channels, particularly in retailing, especially in the current era when consumer demands are challenging and competition is tense. Flexibility in retailing is an emerging research domain. There is limited research into flexibility in the market orientation literature in retailing. This article, led through a case...

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Flexibility in Business Excellence in Knowledge Economy

Abid Haleem

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management > 2008 > 9 > 1 > iii-iii

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Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Need for Flexibility and Innovation in Healthcare Management Systems

Assessing International Success and National Competitive Environment of Shrimp Industries of India and Thailand with Porter’s Diamond Model and Flexibility Theory

A Global Competitiveness Study of Thai Securities Industry: A Case Study of Factors Influencing Investors’ Loyalty to Securities Companies in Bangkok

Managing Change: A Case of Indian Engineering Industry

Knowledge Management in Development Projects: A Case Study of HIDECOR Project in India

Special Issue — GLOGIFT 06

The Impact of Top Management Commitment on Total Quality Management Practice: An Exploratory Study in the Thai Garment Industry

A Genetic Algorithm Based Scheduling for a Flexible System

Impact of New Technology and Sourcing Practices in Managing Tactical and Strategic Manufacturing Flexibilities - An Empirical Study

Indian Implementation of Alternative Refrigerant Technology: A Dynamic Analysis

Linkages of Technology Adoption and Adaptation with Technological Capability, Flexibility and Success of AMT Implementation in Indian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Study

Principles of Flowing Stream Strategy

From Learning Organization to Enlightened Organization

Flexible Process Planning Approaches for Sustainable Decisions in Reverse Logistics System

System Modeling for Flexibility in IT Policy — A Case Study of NIIT Limited

Systems Approach for Water Resources Development

Excellence through Accreditation in Indian B-Schools

Japan’s Health-care Service Quality and the Death-Valley Strategy of Biotech Start-ups

Mapping Flexibility in Retail Strategy

Flexibility in Business Excellence in Knowledge Economy

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