The cost absorbs all the expenses of production for a company at a certain level of the activity. For eliminating the influence of the fixed costs’s absorbtion and for a better supervision of other causes of digressions, the managers can apply the method of rational imputation of the fixed costs. The managers should, in some cases, take into consideration the total costs and not the unit costs....

Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has divided the company into distinct business units, has reduced organizational reliability. This issue raise...

There is a significant problem associated with the fuzzy time series. That is a strict increasing and decreasing case. Under the discussion case, fuzzy time series model arise a continuous increasing/decreasing forecasting value. From the illustrative example, we can see that our definition not only define the trend of the fuzzy numbers that represent the linguistic values of the linguistic var...

Introduction. In a competitive environment the company aims to strengthen its economic position by achieving advantages, reducing production costs or offering better product in quality. One of important preconditions for competitiveness enterprises is availability highly qualified human resources and their rational use. Purpose. Investigating ways assessing level providing with resources, searc...

This paper examines the response of U.S. manufacturing industries and plants to changes in trade costs using a unique new dataset on industry-level tariff and transportation rates. Our results lend support to recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade that predict a reallocation of economic activity towards high-productivity firms as trade costs fall. We find that industries experi...

T o remain competitive, manufacturing enterprises must increase throughput and simultaneously reduce costs. This requires daily and long-term examination and analysis of a plant’s functions and operations. Using this data, an enterprise can identify production flow bottlenecks and analyze capacity and other factors, which in turn helps identify improvement opportunities. While such information ...

The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia: towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment. Empirical analysis of firms’ production functions indicates that firms located in one-company towns are characterised by lower labour productivity, higher marginal capital prod...

It has been widely demonstrated by many research works that the distribution of a factory can condition its productivity. Because this, in Santiago, Chile, asked authors for advice to evaluate current situation company and what alternatives could be proposed improve performance increasing productivity without incurring too high costs. Among most important requirements requested was study design...