organizations need to evaluate project proposals and select the ones that are the most effective in reaching the strategic goals by considering sustainability issue. in order to enhance the effectiveness and the efficiency of project oriented organizations, in this paper a new multi-objective decision making (modm) approach of sustainable project portfolio selection is proposed which applies in...

The Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry is a data repository summarizing information from data sets describing injuries sustained and treatments administered to casualties from the point of injury to rehabilitation. Among the medical facilities contributing data to the Combat Trauma Registry during Operation Iraqi Freedom were the Marine Corps forward surgical companies. The surgical compa...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Russian market of mergers and acquisitions in 2003-2012. This analysis allowed for the conclusion that, to assess and forecast the integration activity of Russian companies, the most precise and appropriate models are seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models built on weighted observations to eliminate the effect of the structural ...

This study presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between industrial timberland ownership and financial performance of forest products companies in the United States. Based on the structure-conduct-performance model of the industrial organization theory, we develop and estimate a three-stage least squares model system that links timberland ownership with performance. Our results sho...

Such high shareholder payouts might be seen as a threat to banking institutions’ capital strength if profitability faltered. However, we find that the sharp rise in shareholder payouts during 1997 appears to have been driven primarily by increases in net stock repurchases rather than by a run-up in dividend payments. The composition of these payouts is important because banking companies can cu...

This study examines the impacts of debt financing on the firms’ investment decisions by employing the method of the multiple linear regression on the data from 2006-2008 of 60 Chinese real estate listed companies. We obtain three major findings. First, there is a negative relation between debt financing and investment behavior in both firms with low-growth opportunities and high-growth opportun...

The research examines the effect of environmental responsibility, growth and company life cycle on cash holding - This study uses secondary data in annual report manufacturing companies obtained through official website Indonesia Stock Exchange (www.idx.co.id) , a sustainability that can be company's GRI-Database during 2018-2020 period with total sample 195 samples. Multiple linear regression ...

Companies survive in saturated markets trying to be more productive and more efficient. In this context, to manage more accurately the finished goods inventories becomes critical for make to stock production systems companies. In this paper an inventory replenishment expert system with the objectives of improving quality service and reducing holding costs is proposed. The Inventory Replenishmen...

The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence the influence leverage, profitability, growth opportunity, and liquidity on cash holding. subjects in were manufacturing companies consumer goods sector listed Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2017 – 2019. population amounted 56 companies. After being selected using purposive sampling method, research sample consisted 17 three period...

The aim of this paper is to explore the efficiency and the benchmarks of financial holding companies (FHCs) for a small open economy, Taiwan. We employ a two-stage production process including profitability and marketability performance using a non-paxametric frontier method — data envelopment analysis (DEA). Furthermore, the factor-specific measure and BCC (Banker-Charnes-Cooper) model are com...