Across industries, a shift from business-to-business exchanges operated by independent agents to companyor consortia-run exchanges can be observed. Procurement platforms represent a major share of these exchanges. However, the design of these platforms remains a difficult task since interests of both the buyer and supplier side have to be considered. In this paper, we introduce the case of clic...

The manufacture of clothing, along with the closely associated activities of fibre and textile production, continues to be one of the driving forces of industrialisation throughout the developing world. At the same time, the clothing industries of many developed consumer countries are fighting to maintain their share of the total value (as opposed to volume) which is created throughout the enti...

In this paper we use neural network models to forecast earnings per share (EPS) of Chinese listed companies using fundamental accounting variables. The sample includes 723 Chinese companies in 22 industries over 10 years. The result shows that the neural network model with weights estimated with genetic algorithm (GA) outperforms the neural network with weights estimated with back propagation (...

1 Tzai-Fu Cheng, Chang Jung University, 396, Section 1, Chang-Jung Road, Kway Jen, Tainan 711, Taiwan [email protected] 2 I-Huei Ho, Chang Jung University [email protected] 3 Chieh-Yu Lin, Chang Jung University [email protected] Abstract Recently, the government in Taiwan proposed a knowledge-based economic policy to reinforce the competence of Taiwan's industries in the 21st cent...

Textile industry has been influenced by the globalization process more than any industry in the world. Given that a high volume of the country's industry is at disposal of small and medium industries it seems that paying attention to textile industries and improving their status could be a useful strategy for economic development of the country. Objective of the present paper is to evaluate tex...

In the mid-1990s, productivity growth accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use case studies to illustrate how IT has enabled firms to more rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout a...

Philosophers of science increasingly recognize the importance of idealization: the intentional introduction of distortion into scientific theories. Yet this recognition has not yielded consensus about the nature of idealization. e literature of the past thirty years contains disparate characterizations and justifications, but little evidence of convergence towards a common position. Despite th...

This report considers the problems of scheduling transmissions in broadcast environments, including, wireless environments. Issues that affect the design of fair scheduling algorithms, and several alternative approaches to implementing fair scheduling in single-hop and multi-hop environments are identified.

Theoretical studies of bank existence reveal the importance of informational asymmetries (cf., for example, Diamond (1984)). This might suggest that banks specialise their loan origination in specific industries to exploit information advantages. However, modern portfolio theory, although not directly applicable to banks, as well as the concept of herding behaviour would instead tend to imply t...