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Corporate risk disclosures as part of U.S. public companies' financial reports are mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since 2005. It provides forward-looking information about companies' future business and potential risks. This study analyzes risk types revealed in these risk disclosures and examines their potential implications on stock returns. Using 16,110 risk disclosures...
Cloud computing provides software, platform, and infrastructure as a service that helps organizations to perform several resource intensive tasks. The services offered by a cloud service provider are limited by provider-specific options in terms of the pre-specified configurations. Moreover, it is sometimes expensive to pay a fixed amount of money without any format of negotiation or price-matching...
The objective of this paper is to propose an alternative method for improving the supply chain performance in terms of supply chain cost (SSC) reduction. DEA-based performance measurement was implemented. SSC was estimated by employing the activity-based costing (ABC) method. The proposed method was verified by a case-based application of an ore dressing company in Thailand. In addition, value stream...
In this paper we present a decision support scheme to help managing and optimizing two critical activities in intermodal terminals, namely the containers allocation in the terminal yard and the freight trains composition. In particular, the focus of this paper is on the first problem and the goal is that of maximizing the utilization of the available space while keeping into account several constraints...
For companies with large sales forces whose sellers approach business clients in teams, the problem of allocating sales teams to sales opportunities is a critical management task for maximizing the revenue and profit of the company. We approach this problem via predictive and prescriptive analytics, where the former involves data mining to learn the relationship between sales team composition and...
The creation of the Shenzhen small and medium-size enterprise (SME) board makes small and medium-size firms raise funds in the stock market, to solve the problems of their own funding needs. High initial public offerings (IPO) underpricing appears on the listed companies' first listing day in SME board, and mean of IPO Underpricing remains more than 100% for years. China's capital market is gradually...
It's an indisputable fact that credit policy inclines to state-owned enterprises in China. Based on it, by using a sample of 1399 A-share listed companies over the year 2009 to 2011, we investigate the difference of credit rationing and cash efficiency between state-owned and private enterprises. Results show that the existence of “Bank Power” forces enterprises obtaining credit to increase the amount...
Engineering and installation processes are one cost driver within the life cycle of a technical system. Especially within international projects crossing country borders, the cost distribution and the cost allocation are challenges for the success of the technical system. The engineers usually responsible for the decisions where and by whom an engineering activity has to be executed within the engineering...
Discrete event simulation (DES) provides engineers with a flexible modeling capability for extensive analysis of a production flow and its dynamic behavior. Activity based costing (ABC) modeling can provide additional knowledge about the monetary costs related to the manufacturing processes in DES. In addition, ABC modeling has been proposed as a tool for environmental impact analysis. Thus, previous...
The cost for the reposition of empty containers is very high. These issues from different angles have been researched by many scholars. According to the current realities, this paper researches the optimization of empty containers reposition from the angle of reducing the cost, and make use of linear programming method, formulate relatively model for in and out the ports or transferring of empty containers,...
The fundamental purpose of establishing the supply chain is to gain competitive advantage and get profit. The key to this is the effective cooperation of the independent enterprises. This paper studies the internal mechanism of the benefit distribution in the supply chain from the view of theory, and describes the principle and distribution model of it. Then, in order to achieve the stability and...
This paper classed the investors in the primary market to arbitragers and noise traders, then analyzed the return of the investors from the primary market under the system of cash rationing in China. The results suggest that the arbitragers can work with changing their demand, but the effect of the arbitragers is limited by the demand of the noise traders. When the noise demand is less than the issue...
Any company that provides a product or a service should analyze the consumer's requirements and design service processes. Service science or service designing tools help designers analyze consumer's requirements and design the business and service processes. These researches focus on stakeholders and not on the workplace. As a result, the process based on these researches could overload the workplace...
A bilevel programming is proposed to research the relation between number and scale of coal mining companies. To optimize resources, the upper level decision maker(social regulation) chooses the number of coal mining companies to minimize social average cost and maximize social average benefit, and the lower level decision makers(coal mining companies) optimize their scales to maximize benefit. According...
An agent-based approach is proposed in this paper to analyze interactions between the emission and electricity markets. A cap-and-trade system is assumed to be in place to regulate emissions from power generation. Generation companies are modeled as adaptive learning agents that can bid strategically into the electricity market by Q-learning algorithm. These companies also participate in allowances...
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