The U.S. Army’s Force XXI initiative provides automated C4I systems to commanders and their staffs at the brigade through corps echelons to increase situational awareness and support improved command and control decision making. These systems provide extensive automation support, including local area networks for data communications within command post structures and wide area communications li...

Lohrke and Burton (Lohrke & Burton, 1997), in their review of leading international business and strategic management journals, noted that studies of top management teams (TMTs) have been quite rare in the international strategic management literature. Following the upper echelons perspective (Hambrick & Mason, 1984), recent work has attempted to bridge this gap by studying TMTs in the context ...

in many practical distribution networks, managers face significant uncertainties in demand, local price of building facilities, transportation cost, and macro and microeconomic parameters. this paper addresses design of distribution networks in a supply chain system which optimizes the performance of distribution networks subject to required service level. this service level, which is considere...

The goals of real business in the context digital transformation international logistics networks and marketing channels have necessitated application a scientifically based theoretical approach to development formalized description acceptable for predictive planning on leading indicators. In globalization interstate regional economic unions, this will lead achieving maximum end-to-end integrat...

We study a two echelon supply chain with AR(1) demand and unit replenishment lead-times. Each echelon of the supply chain uses conditional expectation to generate MMSE forecasts. Both echelons use these forecasts inside the “Order-Up-To” policy to generate replenishment orders. We investigate 3 different scenarios: The first is when each echelon aims to minimize their own inventory holding and ...

In this paper, a closed-loop location-inventory problem for spare parts is presented. The proposed supply chain network includes two echelons, namely (1) distribution centers (DCs) and repairing centers (RCs) and (2) operational bases. Multiple spare parts are distributed among operational bases from distribution centers in the forward supply chain and failed spare parts from operational bases ...

Supply chain networks of independent firms collaborating to serve a final market are becoming a normal business phenomenon. Yet at present it is not clear if and how such networks can achieve stability. Nor is it obvious what successful managerial guidelines might be for individual companies operating in such networks regarding collaboration with the other firms involved. This exploratory study...

Despite some notable and rare exceptions and after many years of relatively neglect (particularly in the 'upper echelons' of IS research), there appears to be some renewed interest in Information Systems Ethics (ISE). This paper reflects on the development of ISE by assessing the use and development of ethical theory in contemporary IS research with a specific focus on the 'leading' IS journals...