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Tactical planning consists of developing production plans to fulfill client demands with a minimal logistic cost. However, plans generated by classical models for tactical planning do not consider a minimum financial need in terms of Working Capital Requirements (WCR) to maintain the activities related to the operating cycle. In this paper, we introduce a first link between tactical planning and the...
Emerging business models such as digital ecosystems involving collaborative innovation, participatory decision-making and flexible organizational structures are set to significantly affect inter- and intra-enterprise structure and functionality. This has seen the appearance of increasingly complex Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) scenarios featuring various partnership levels, increased resilience...
Implementation of the sustainable policy guidelines at a company level is not an easy task. The decisions about resource allocation, changes in process organization or new investments should be considered taking into account their economic, environmental and social effects. Remanufacturing processes contributes to the fulfilment of the circular economy paradigm. The existing body of literature highlights...
Evolving metamodels are in the center of Model-Driven Engineering, necessitating the co-evolution of dependent artifacts like models and transformations. While model co-evolution has been extensively studied, transformation co-evolution has received less attention up to now. Current approaches for transformation co-evolution provide a fixed, restricted set of metamodel (MM) changes, only. Furthermore,...
Over the last decade, companies have been including social and environmental strategies in response to stakeholders demand. Efforts are been made to identify when a sustainable strategy can improve economic performance. Innovation is seen as the panacea, but recently, researchers have found that these innovations are really effective when are applied not only to products and process but to the entirely...
Process mining is a modern family of techniques applied to datasets generated from business processes run in organizations, in order to improve and obtain useful insights and performance measurements on the processes themselves (with clear societal and economical benefits). While these techniques are very promising in understanding business processes, their complete and efficient implementation inside...
In the strategic management field, the ecosystem concept is increasing significance. This paper provides an overview of 90 previous studies on the ecosystem concept published in leading academic journals in strategic management field and clarifies the four major research streams. The first perspective is the industrial ecosystem perspective, which is based on the concept of industrial ecology. The...
The automotive industry faces three major challenges - shortage of fossil fuels, politics of global warming and rising competition from new markets. In order to remain competitive companies have to develop more efficient and alternative fuel vehicles that meet the individual requirements of the customers. Functional integration combined with new technologies and materials are the key to stable success...
Entrepreneurship and startup companies are related terms, in the sense that one brings support to the other. The characteristics of a successful startup could be visible in the long term, but how about the way to develop an entrepreneurial person? This study performed a survey within a Peruvian university in order to explain the innovative mindset of the students and even their position about the...
This study analyzes the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) management process of a multinational company of high-tech services. We evaluate the adherence of the enablers reported in the literature of FFE management in this company's innovation process. We choose, from literature, a framework of FFE's management in order to guide the interviews with managers. The interviews provide information could be possible...
How to build an initial portfolio of R&D projects to start industry-university cooperation? This paper reports an attempt to answer this question. Particularly, it presents a methodology devised from a 18-month action-research program held between a large multinational automotive manufacturer and the engineering school of a top-ranked Brazilian university. The paper proposes a 3-stage process...
In the information society, and utilizing ICT(Information and Communication Technology), it has become possible to deploy a new business model. In the use of the financial business ICT, companies rather than funding from traditional financial institutions such as banks and securities companies, it has become possible to raise funds from individuals of the general public. One of the new forms of financing...
Business models are considered to be the most important competitiveness of enterprises. This paper provides a theoretical framework in order: i) to discuss the concepts on business model of logistics enterprise, ii) to analyses the business model, combining with the bank of China business conduction mode, and put forward the concept of service product differentiation innovative business model, and...
Over the last few decades, software reuse has been stressed as a key factor for the developers to improve the productivity and the quality of information systems. However, some drawbacks of a vendor-dependent proprietary framework from major SI companies can also be formed in e-Government systems. This paper is differentiated from other prior studies in that it involves field experimental research...
This paper studies optimal fee schedules of crowdsourcing services. The paper finds that service fees should be an increasing concave function of task prizes. This result implies that optimal service fee rates, measured as the ratios of fees to prizes, decrease with task prizes. The paper shows that low-type crowdsourcing contest sponsors might be priced out of the market under the optimal fee schedule...
In the Internet age, application of the Internet has penetrated into people's daily life. It has a great influence on people's daily life and overturns people's traditional conception of thinking. Depending on the Internet's resources integration ability, Internet companies are rapidly rising and affect the traditional industry's core business. Many traditional enterprises have begun to transform...
Taking the factor of customer switching into count, we analyze duopoly models in which both start-ups and established firms consider the competitive investment in R&D when they enter the new market. Firms make a decision on investment will influence the customer switching. The firms with investment may attract new customers from other firms which does not invest and then maintain more market share...
Brand valuation has attracted the interest of accounting academicians and practitioners, several valuation methods come into existence, however, after a careful review they prove to be lack of objectivity. We put forward the risk analysis of cash flow method, after an empirical study of the real estate enterprises, it proves to be effective, and moreover, it can meet the demands of objectivity of...
The optimization and simulation of power systems continues to be an area of concern for electricity companies and researchers worldwide namely considering the development of electricity markets and competition in the generation activity Therefore generation companies are devoting an increasing attention to market issues justifying the development of models to help them preparing bidding strategies...
Merger analysis is usually drawing on concepts derived from competitive horizontal markets, such as market concentration, predatory foreclosure and economies of scale in marketing. In evaluating horizontal mergers among energy network operators, regulators must use different tools to evaluate the attractiveness of mergers. Norway is one country having implemented an ex ante regulation for mergers...
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