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Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING JOINT DYNAMIC AMBULANCE RELOCATION AND FLEXIBLE DISPATCHING STRATEGIES: A SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION APPROACH
Author: Li, Xun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology, Business
Description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system's mission is to provide timely and effective treatment to anyone in need of urgent medical care throughout their jurisdiction. The main goal of most EMS deployment is to reduce mortality, disability, pain an...

Title: ESSAYS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE: MEASUREMENT AND IMPACTS
Author: Zhang, Peiqin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of busine...

Title: Exchange Rates, Carry Trade Returns and Political Risks
Author: Kesse, Kwabena
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Industrial management
Description: This dissertation elucidates the channels through which sovereign risk, exchange rates and currency risk premia are related. I show that the channels are different depending on whether a country is classified as emerging or an advanced economy. Ge...

Title: In-situ Instrumentation for Degradation Monitoring of Power Semiconductor Devices in Power Electronics Converters
Author: Roy, Chondon
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern power and energy systems rely heavily on power electronics converters. The most significant component of these converters is the power semiconductor switching devices MOSFETs/IGBTs. Two critical parameters that provide real-time information...

Title: Optimal Group Purchasing Decisions under Supply Chain Competition and Contracts
Author: Mohammadi, Abdollah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering
Description: Group purchasing (GP) is a procurement strategy by which the retailers can negotiate better prices by increasing their negotiation power through collaboration with each other. GP problem can be modeled as a generalized newsvendor problem, although...

Title: Stochastic and fuzzy flexible aggregate production planning to manage plan stability
Author: Torabzadeh, Setareh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Operations research
Description: Aggregate production planning generally deals with configuration of an aggregate plan in advance of 6 to 18 periods (e.g. months) to give the organizations an idea about the amount of invested money, utilized capacity, required inventory and any o...

Title: TOWARD SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE SERVICE DELIVERY NETWORKS
Author: Dong, Su
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Management, Social structure, Information technology
Description: Effective management of IT-enabled services is becoming increasingly important. These services are often delivered by networks of knowledge workers who constitute Knowledge Intensive Service Delivery Networks (KISDN). This dissertation contributes...

Title: Three Essays in Corporate Finance
Author: Piao, Taichun
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: The first paper ("Does Executive Compensation Duration Generate Different Risk Incentives? Evidence on Corporate Hedging") investigates whether and how corporate hedging policy is affected by compensation duration. I find a positive and significan...