Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is an increasingly widely-diffused practice among companies that are seeking to improve their environmental performance. This study designates green supply chain management (GSCM) evaluation model in publishing industry by using fuzzy AHP approach. Our proposed model is applied in Sooreh Mehr Publication as one of the best companies in this sector. Research ...

Internationally operating firms naturally face the decision whether or not to hedge the currency risk implied by foreign investments. In a recent paper, Bos, Mahieu and van Dijk (2000) evaluate the returns from optimal and alternative currency hedging strategies, for a series of 7 models, using Bayesian inference and decision analysis. The models differ in the way time-varying means, variances ...

We study a resource constrained assembly line balancing problem (RCALBP) presented by Ağpak and Gökçen, who developed a 0-1 integer programming model to find the optimal solution. However, this model is inefficient in solving large-scale problems. In this paper, we propose a simple efficient heuristic that is based on the widely-used ranked positional weight (RPW) rule. The example given by Ağp...

Firms often have imperfect information about demand for their products. We develop an integrated econometric and theoretical framework to model firm demand assessment and subsequent pricing decisions with limited information. We introduce a panel data discrete choice model whose realistic assumptions about consumer behavior deliver partially identified preferences and thus generates ambiguity i...

We propose a Laplace stochastic frontier model as an alternative to the traditional model with normal errors. An interesting feature of the Laplace model is that the distribution of inefficiency conditional on the composed error is constant for positive values of the composed error, but varies for negative values. Therefore, it may be ideally suited for analyzing industries with many forms on o...

This paper uses mixed combinatorial-cum-real particle swarm method to obtain a heuristically optimal order in which the constituent variables can be arranged so as to yield some generalized maximum entropy synthetic indicators that represent the constituent variables in the best information-theoretic sense. It may help resolve the arbitrariness and indeterminacy of Pena’s method of construction...

Blackwell (1951, 1953) proposes an informativeness ranking of experiments: Experiment I is more Blackwell-informative than Experiment II if and only if the value of experiment I is higher than that of experiment II for all expected-utility maximizers. Under commitment and reduction, our main theorem shows that Blackwell equivalence holds for all convex and strongly monotone preferences, i.e., t...

An important technical question arising in economic and financial applications of decision models with non-additive beliefs is how to define stochastic independence. In fact the straightforward generalization of independence does not in general yield a unique product. I discuss the problem of independence, with specific focus on the validity of the Fubini theorem. The latter holds in general on...

The pressure dependences of sound velocities, refractive index and elastic constants in ice-VII phase have been determined up to 8 GPa at 300 K by high-pressure Brillouin spectroscopy developed for a single molecular crystal grown in a diamond anvil cell. The Cauchy relation of C12=C44 was found at each pressure. This result suggests that the interactions between the oxygen atoms can be describ...

We have calculated the phonon frequencies of KC1 along symmetry directions using an approach which is a combination of the frozen phonon and force constants methods. We also calculated Griineisen parameters for all modes at X and L points in the Brillouin zone. Finally, the slope of acoustic dispersion curves around zone center were used to calculate the three independent elastic coefficien...