The annual production yield of the Taiwanese construction industry has been roughly 16.5 billion USD, representing approximately 5% of total GDP, during the recent decade, indicating that it contributes significantly to overall economic development in Taiwan. It was recognized that by partnerships rather than having traditional adversarial relationships that the industry could lower costs, achi...

As a result of a recent initiative by the UK Government, practitioners and researchers have been considering the development of lean thinking for construction from a strategic viewpoint. This has resulted in the recognition of a construction business system incorporating long term processes of partnering the supply chain, product development, production of components and project implementation....

OBJECTIVES To summarize findings from medication therapy management (MTM) "environmental scans" conducted from 2007 through 2010, interpret findings from the environmental scans using insights gained from the Future of MTM Roundtable convened in October 2010, and propose ideas for future positioning and integrating of MTM programs in the U.S. health care system. METHODS Data for the environme...

In less than a decade, Internet-enabled business-to-business (B2B) commerce has become central to supply chain management. But little is known about the infrastructural competencies required for manufacturers engaged in Internet-enabled activities with downstream business customers. This paper aims to take a first step in operationalizing a set of new, multi-item measures that tap into infrastr...

A number of studies discussed the topic of benefits of retailers-manufacturers cooperation and coopetition. However, there are only few publications focused on the benefits of cooperation and coopetition between retailers and their suppliers of durable consumer goods; especially in the context of business model of cooperating partners. This paper aims to provide a clustering approach to segment...

The present paper explores how industrial symbiosis emergence unfolds within port areas. A multiple case study shows emerges through partnering and stakeholder processes that take the form of collaborative business models. Focusing on actors, platforms for collaboration, content processes, identifies drivers emergence, including importance geographical proximity agglomeration, which identify ar...