T bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of increasing demand variability in the supply chain from downstream echelons (retail) to upstream echelons (manufacturing). The objective of this study is to document the strength of the bullwhip effect in industry-level U.S. data. In particular, we say an industry exhibits the bullwhip effect if the variance of the inflow of material to the industry (what m...

Tactical behaviors for autonomous ground and air vehicles are an area of high interest to the Army. They are critical for the inclusion of robots in the Future Combat System (FCS). Tactical behaviors can be defined at multiple levels: at the Company, Platoon, Section, and Vehicle echelons. They are currently being defined by the Army for the FCS Unit of Action. At all of these echelons, unmanne...

A noticeable and practicable scheme of channel coordination is the quantity flexibility contracts. It can be emphasized that quantity flexibility contracts can share the risk and cost of market demand uncertainty and yield more potential profitability for members within a supply chain. In view of its increasing importance, quantity flexibility contracts have been studied extensively and various...

BACKGROUND Combat casualty care is distributed across professions and echelons of care. Communication within it is fragmented, inconsistent, and prone to failure. Daily checklists used during intensive care unit (ICU) rounds have been shown to improve compliance with evidence-based practices, enhance communication, promote consistency of care, and improve outcomes. Checklists are criticized bec...

For more than 15 years, the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has worked closely with the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) on architectures and technology development for intelligent control of unmanned vehicle systems. During the early 1990’s, NIST developed techniques for retrotraverse of trajectories recorded using teleoperation. In the l...

The supply chain literature has devoted much attention to studying how the variability of orders propagates upstream. We focus, instead, on how the variability of payments to suppliers propagates upstream, which has a major impact on risk. To do so, we build a supply chain model based on empirical findings from the finance literature. We show that payment variability may occur even if orders ar...

We utilize the IBM Watson Personality Insights service to analyze CEOs’ verbal communication during conference calls infer Big Five personality traits, which we employ estimate their risk tolerance levels. then explore whether misalignment of CEO and governance structures is associated with company performance. Using a two-stage contingency approach, test two hypotheses: (1) corporate are assoc...

The goal of this chapter is to qualitatively investigate the managerial unlearning process during promotionPromotion from senior managerSenior manager executive officerExecutive officer, based on upper echelons perspectiveUpper perspective and leadership pipeline modelLeadership model, using interview data 46 officersExecutive officer.

A considerable body of upper echelons theory research demonstrate the role that various facets CEOs’ individual characteristics play in shaping firm’s strategies and behaviors. With increasing debate concerning different drivers determinants CSR, we complement these two lines inquiries by theorizing proposing a CEO-social capital perspective on CSR. Furthermore, discuss types social ties how th...

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