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Learning by Supplying

Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Usi...

Army Medical Service and the Army Estimates

Supplying legacy applications with QoS

∗ This work was performed in the framework of IST Project AQUILA (Adaptive Re-source Control of QoS Using an IP-based Layered Architecture IST1999-10077) funded in part by the EU. The author wish to express her gratitude to the other members of the AQUILA Consortium for valuable discussions. Abstract: In this article we consider end-to-end interdomain Quality of Service support for non QoS-awar...

An Active Learning Exercise: Supplying Hoop Dreams

We describe a board game in which students assume the roles of supply chain enterprises and move game pieces (e.g. Legos, Velcro, etc.) that represent the parts of a basketball hoop. They then assemble these parts and form the final product and sell it to the customers. The game is the first of its kind to illustrate the concepts of shortage gaming, synchronization of the flow of parts, demand ...

Efficiency Evaluation of Wood Supplying Plans

In this research, efficiency of Iranian forest and rangeland decision making unit was assessed using non-parametric method. Inputs and outputs determined by field research and with applying a Delphi method the final input and output variables selected. Forty five wood-producing units (forestry plans) in three northern Iranian province were studied using Data Envelopment Analysis. The efficiency...