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This paper describes a real application of a multicriteria decision aid to sort suppliers in the Brazilian dairy industry located in Serra Talhada City. This region is very arid, and farmers have difficulty maintaining the quality required for dairy production. Five criteria were identified by...
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There has been increasing recognition that for regional competitiveness in rural areas there needs to be a focus on sustainable farming initiatives especially for family farms that are competing with global conglomerates. Family farms, whilst declining in number, are the purpose of this paper...
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performance in adverse economic circumstances. The results show positive relationship between profitability and cash conversion … cycle, firm's size, growth and leverage and negative relationship between profitability and components of cash conversion … cycle. Analysing the impact of the crisis it can observe that the companies can increase their profitability by reducing the …
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The present research investigates the effect of inventory performance on profitability. The objective is to find … empirical evidence for the theory that operational excellence in inventory management improves profitability in the long run. To … lower inventory level measured as the industry inventory-to-sales ratio has a positive effect on industry profitability …
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recommendation systems in MOOCs to predict what students want more aiming to increase their profitability. In this paper, the authors …
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supplier Relationship Improvement, Competitive Advantages and Profitability were formed with their respective items. The multi …
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profitability now. Based on a qualitative study with 14 cloud service experts, the authors explore the relationship between cloud … service provider profitability and value facilitation, i.e., the capability to build up resources in advance of future … customer engagements. The authors' results indicate a positive relationship between cloud service profitability and value …
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This article examines the contribution to profit from research and development (R&D) using industry-level accounting panel data for eight industries in Japan from 1986 to 2012. Problematically, simple least-squares regression estimation of production functions, where the authors specify sales or...
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markets in modern IT industry. As the market matures, many providers are struggling with profitability issues. Studies on … service delivery cost and profitability. The results indicate that while project learning merely helps to reduce service … delivery costs, service individualization positively affects profitability. …
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The connection between ownership structure and firm performance has attracted much attention, especially in emerging markets, yet yielded many inconsistent empirical results. This paper presents an analysis of the association between eight categories of ownership, HHI Index, GINI index and firm...
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