Due to that many fuzzy and uncertain association relations represented by some phenomenon in the process of enterprises cooperation in supply chain, data mining method was try out in this paper. At first, concept and deducing procedure was introduced, and then 300 samples from a survey was pretreatment, in succession cooperation relations of enterprises in supply chain was studied combined with...

Financial data reflects the development situation and the operating results of an enterprise. The development of hi-tech enterprises has been gaining extensive attention, the use of financial data to evaluate its integrated ability is necessary. After the selection of financial indexes to elevate this integrated ability and through a questionnaire survey of 260 hi-tech enterprises in Beijing, f...

The present study was initiated to examine the relationship between the workplace concentrations and the estimated highest concentrations in solvent workplaces (SWPs), with special references to enterprise size and types of solvent work. Results of survey conducted in 1010 SWPs in 156 enterprises were taken as a database. Workplace air was sampled at > or = 5 crosses in each SWP following a gri...

Eco-innovation is any innovation that leads to sustainable development by limiting the negative impact of production activities on the environment, increasing the resilience of nature to loads or ensuring greater efficiency and responsibility in the use of natural resources. Eco-innovations are the opportunity for enterprises. Their introduction contributes to reducing the costs of doing busine...

Furniture manufacturing micro and small enterprises are confronted with several factors that affect their performance. Some enterprises fail to sustain, some others remain for long period of time without transforming, and most are producing similar and non-standard products. The main aim of this manuscript is on improving the performance and contribution of MSEs by analyzing impact of significa...

Privatizing or restructuring state-owned enterprises may lead to mass layoffs, but the number of redundant workers is usually unknown beforehand. This paper estimates labor redundancy by comparing employment levels across enterprises with different degrees of state ownership. State-owned enterprises are modeled as a hybrid between labor-managed enterprises and profitmaximizing enterprises, with...

AIM To determine whether enterprises belonging to the Bank of Models of Good Practice were more successful than average Norwegian enterprises in the reduction of sickness absence, promotion of early return to work, and prevention of early retirement. METHODS In 2004 we selected 86 enterprises with a total of approximately 90000 employees from the Inclusive Working Life (IWL) Bank of Models of...

This paper identifies goal handling processes that begin to account for the kind of processes involved in invention. We identify new goal properties and mechanisms for processing goals, as well as means of integrating opportunism, deliberation, and social interaction into goal/plan processes. We focus on enterprise goals, which extend traditional design goals and knowledge goals to address sign...

Each business company collects, produces and exploits for its activities and goals large amounts of information. Most of the times this knowledge makes the intellectual capital for creating value and innovation. Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at manipulating knowledge by storing and redistributing corporate information that are acquired from the organizations members. In this context, Vi...

Although knowledge is one of the most valuable resource of enterprises and an important production and competition factor, this intellectual potential is often used (or maintained) only inadequate by the enterprises. Therefore, in a globalised and growing market the optimal usage of existing knowledge represents a key factor for enterprises of the future. Here, knowledge management systems shou...