As global responsiveness (GR) has been recognised as critical for global market advantage, we draw upon social capital theory and develop a theoretical model which clarifies the determinants and consequences of GR. Based upon a cross-national sample of 118 MNCs from the U.S., Europe, and Asia, we found that intra-firm structural and inter-firm relational social capital, as reflected in integrat...

background the emergence of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii complicates the therapy of the related infections. hospital isolates of a. baumannii are usually multidrug-resistant. the problem is compounded by increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics including carbapenems. objectives the aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and distributio...

the problem of determining the sequence of a set of jobs with the objective function of minimizing the maximum earliness and tardiness in one machine is studied. production systems like jit are one of the many applications of the problem. this problem is studied in special cases and their optimal solutions are introduced with simple orders. in general, some effective conditions for neighboring ...

One of the important aspects of distribution optimization problems is simultaneously, controlling the inventory while devising the best vehicle routing, which is a famous problem, called inventory-routing problem (IRP). When the lot-sizing decisions are jointed with IRP, the problem will get more complicated called production inventory-routing problem (PIRP). To become closer to the real life p...