Assessing JIT Performance: An Econometric Approach

JIT in Healthcare: An Integrated Approach

Cost, quality, patient satisfaction etc. are some important issues facing healthcare industry. Hospitals are searching continuously for innovative ways to contain costs without sacrificing quality and meet the patients’ needs. One successful solution has been the adoption of JIT manufacturing systems which involve many functional areas of a company such as manufacturing, engineering, marketing,...

Capital Markets clustering: An econometric approach

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The Environmental Performance of Polluting Plants: A Spatial Econometric Approach

This paper uses plant-level data from EPA and Census databases to incorporate spatial components in models of the environmental performance (compliance and emissions) of manufacturing plants. The spatial approaches include creating explanatory variables based on information related to the plant’s location and the location of nearby plants, testing for spatial autocorrelation in environmental pe...

The Econometric Approach

An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services

Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation undermines the usefulness of inventory turnover in performance analysis, benchmarking and working capital management. We develop an empirical model using financial data for 311 public-listed retail firms for the years 1987-2000 to investigate the correlation of inventory turnover with gross margin, capital intensity...