Potential consequences of disasters involve overwhelming economic losses, large affected populations and serious environmental damages. Given these devastating effects, there is an increasing interest in developing measures in order to diminish the possible impact of disasters, which gave rise to the field of disaster operations management (DOM). In this paper we review recent OR/MS research in...

Knowledge network/mobilisation and lean performance have been most often discussed in an isolated manner in generic context in literature. Few studies currently exist that focus on their relationship in supply chain management. This study investigates the relationships between knowledge network types/ mobilisation approaches and successful lean performance outcome using fuzzy-set qualitative co...

Sustainable development, as a concept of controlled development, is a management characteristic. Adaptation to progress is important to achieve sustainability. The research focus here is on developing an evaluation methodology for determining the characteristics of urban open space. A method was designed for use in the comparative analysis of environmental perception evaluation between differen...

This study equates a choice of methods that allow an organization to weigh their information security risk. The initial models went through two selection iterations before we end up with the final three Risks assessment models. The main purpose of the study is to compare and clarify the different activities, inputs and outputs required by each information security risk assessment models and als...

In the private sector business process management is a common and well-established practice. In the public administration in Europe, this does not hold true to the same degree. However, currently we observe some considerable challenges. Important keywords such as eGovernment, networking, interoperability, compliance and governance and their relation to the administration processes are getting i...

This article examines public opinion in advanced economies to assess what the general public thinks about inflation. Are individual citizens concerned about inflation? How important a public policy issue do they think it is? What influences their opinions about inflation? Does opinion about inflation vary across countries and, if so, what accounts for this variation? The opinion surveys examine...