Decision-making needs information. Enterprises in a supply chain make daily operating decisions on the basis of available information of demand and supply. The behaviors of supply chain members would be different under information sharing than otherwise. Demand-side information sharing has been intensively explored. However, supply-side information sharing has not been extensively investigated....

The study determined the critical variables inducing choice of mitigation and adaptation methods adopted by Small Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) against effect climate change on their enterprises in Southwest Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to choose 200 SMEs Managers/Chief Executive Officers (100 mitigating 100 not mitigating) as respondents for study. Descriptive statis...

inadequate attention to the products having shelf life limitation leads to form a new branch of supply chain (sc) called cold chain (cc). cold chain management (ccm) is referred to handle activities related to perishable products. this research investigates the role of information technology (it) in improving the human resource efficiency, planning and logistic in the cc organizations. the numb...

Today's competitive world has led managers to shift from traditional management to scientific management. Supply chain management is one of key issues in industries because, considering a high number of competitors in today's competitive world, competition has been extended from company level to the level of competition on their supply chain. For any organization seeking to achieve its goals in...

With the continuous progress of China’s industrialization, problems with the environment, health and safety (EHS) have become increasingly prominent. A study on EHS managers’ competency model shall help Chinese enterprises build up an EHS professional team and accomplish EHS managerial goals. This article adopts the “behavioral event interview” (BEI) method to extract characteristic indexes for...

factors affecting on job motivation from the managers point of view in teaching hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences in 2009 hamouzadeh p*1, sadeghifar j2, moradkhani b3 received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: the fact that managers are planners of health care system plays an important role in the development of health care and treatm...