The research studies on types of products and purchase investigation into inventory management of supply chain. We choose cases from domestic manufacturing industry and retail industry to investigate their inventory management models. The types of products separate functional products and innovative products; purchasing orientations divides into buying and procurement orientation. Two construct...

â â â â â  â â â  abstract â  beijing’s industrial structure is service-oriented with a high degree of economic openness, and gdp has maintained rapid growth. this paper analyzes the international financial crisis and the impact of china’s anti-crisis policies on beijing’s economic development as well as its transmission mechanism. impact index (excluding seasonal factors) and arma model ...

In this paper we specialize the Ngai-Pissarides model of growth and structural change [American Economic Review 97 (2007), 429-443] to the case of three sectors, representing the primary (agriculture, mining), secondary (construction, manufacturing) and tertiary (services) sectors. On that basis we explore the dynamic properties of the model along the transition path to the steady-state equilib...

The U.S. economy increasingly relies on the internet as a critical infrastructure for enabling business processes from product design, engineering and supply chain management upstream through sale and fulfillment of product downstream. As a result, there is much interest in the vulnerability of the U.S. economy to targeted and large-scale disruptions of the information infrastructure. Here we p...

Investment appraisal in advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) has been receiving considerable attention over the past three decades. As stated in numerous studies, traditional engineering economic methods cannot adequately justify investments in AMTs. Thus, beside these methods, some other solutions have been proposed in this field. The methods applied in the evaluation of AMTs can be clas...

The basic aim of the research is to investigate the impacts of research and development (R&D) on manufacturing trade. Six hypotheses are tested. The focus is on possible non-linear effect of R&D on trade flows and whether R&D helps overcome the distance and the role of level of economic development on manufacturing trade. The panel unit root test and panel econometric methods are employed on th...

A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly agricultural societies to modern economies dominated by manufacturing and services. In this paper we provide an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial start-up firms in structural economic transformation. We follow the Lewis-model’s distinction between a trad...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in many economies. In New Zealand, for example, 97% of all manufacturing companies employ less than 100 staff, and generate the predominant part of this industry sector’s economic output. Manufacturing SMEs as a group also have a significant impact on the environment. This situation is similar in many developed economies, includin...