The demands for automobiles increased drastically in last two and half decades in India. Many global automobile manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers have already set up research, development and manufacturing facilities in India. The Indian automotive component industry started implementing Lean practices to fulfill the demand of these customers. United Nations Industrial Development Organization...

Introduction: Utilization of dental service is a concept of expressing the extent of interaction between the service provider and the people for whom it is indented. However, one of the major issues in social welfare is the equitable provision of these services to the population. Aim: To determine the perceived barriers affecting access to the dental services in the dental institute. Materials ...

In the context of Industry 4.0, lean–green manufacturing system has brought many advantages and challenges to industrial participants. Security is one main encountered in new environment, because smart factory applications can easily expose vulnerability threaten operational security whole system. It difficult address problem brittleness factor systems. Therefore, building on theory, this study...

Emerging information technology (EIT), characterized by intelligence, digitization, and automation, can facilitate activities such as stakeholder cooperation, management, construction management to enhance the overall performance in prefabricated building projects (PBPs). A variety of EITs are currently being used PBPs, but their development is relatively sluggish still infancy stage. Previous ...

With the continued expansion of corporate information systems and the increasing use of networks, information security management (ISM) has become more important than ever. However, few empirical studies have examined the effects of firms’ internal and external factors on their ISM processes. This study investigates the role of Need Pull and Technology Push on the ISM process, and examines the ...

Numerous companies are expecting their knowledge management (KM) to be performed effectively in order to leverage and transform the knowledge into competitive advantages. However, here raises a critical issue of how companies can better evaluate and select a favorable KM strategy prior to a successful KM implementation. The KM strategy selection is a kind of multiple criteria decision-making (M...

Environmental topics have gained much consideration in corporate green operations. Globalization, stakeholder pressures, and stricter environmental regulations have made organizations develop environmental practices. Thus, green supply chain management (GSCM) is now a proactive approach for organizations to enhance their environmental performance and achieve competitive advantages. This study p...

A primary concern of national R&D plans is to encourage technological development in private firms and research institutes. For effective R&D planning and program support, it is necessary to assess technological impacts that may exist both directly and indirectly among technology areas within the whole technology system; however, previous studies analyze only direct impacts among technologies, ...

This research proposes a novel MCDMmodel, including DEMATEL, ANP, and VIKOR for exploring portfolio selection based on CAPM. We probe into the influential factors and relative weights of risk-free rate, expected market return, and beta of the security. The purpose of this research is to establish an investment decision model and provides investors with a reference of portfolio selection most su...