T he topic of the “credit crunch” received considerable attention during the early 1990s. As a result, several initiatives aimed at eliminating regulatory disincentives to lending were put in place. For example, documentation requirements recently were reduced to the legal minimum for loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Also, examiners and bankers were encouraged to emphasize the charac...

Since the middle of 1980s, the stock structure of English and US enterprise has extremely dispersed, and the governance mode of “stockholder first” has been suspected extensively because many problems such as the protection of middle and small sized stockholder benefit and anti-annexing, and the problems of interior personnel control and agent costs are more and more serious. After that, the th...

This paper shows how certain robust multi objective feedback design problems can be reduced to quanti er elimination QE problems In particular it is shown how robust stabilization and robust frequency domain performance speci cations can be reduced to systems of polynomial inequalities with suitable logic quanti ers and Because of computational complexity the size of problems that can solved by...

This article addresses a general tri-objective two-echelon capacitated vehicle routing problem (2E-CVRP) to minimize the total travel cost, customers waiting times and carbon dioxide emissions simultaneously in distributing perishable products. In distributing perishable products, customers’ satisfaction is very important and is inversely proportional to the customers waiting times. The propose...

An organization's success is highly dependent on its ability to cooperate, both within the organization and with other organizations. This is especially true for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet cooperation – internal or external – does not always succeed, and the reasons for failures or shortcomings are not always obvious. In this paper, an industrial case study involving Co-MAP,...