Global Operations Management.

Intro -- GLOBAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT -- GLOBAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 SARBANES-OXLEY ACT AND ITS IMPACTS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CONTENTS OF SOX -- Title I: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) -- Title II: Auditor Independence -- Title III: Corporate Responsibility -- Title IV: Enhanced Financial Disclosures -- Title V: Analyst Conflicts of Interest -- Title VI: Commission Resources and Authority -- Title VII: Studies and Reports -- Title VIII: Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability -- Title IX: White Collar Crime Penalty Enhancements -- Title X: Corporate Tax Returns -- Title XI: Corporate Fraud Accountability -- 3. PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY OF ACCOUNTING FIRMS -- 4. GOING-PUBLIC AND GOING-PRIVATE DECISIONS -- 5. SMALL FIRMS -- 6. LOBBYING APPROACH -- 7. RISK, RETURN AND MARKET REACTION -- 8. TREND IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE -- 9. INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS AND COMPARISONS -- 10. SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OR HEALING THE SYMPTOMS? -- 11. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: RESEARCH FINDINGS ON SOX -- Chapter 2 A UTILITY FUNCTION APPROACH FOR EVALUATING COUNTRY PERFORMANCES WITH DEA - THE TWIN GOALS OF DECENT WORK AND A FAIR GLOBALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. BACKGROUND AND THE TASK AHEAD -- 2. ESTIMATING A COBB-DOUGLAS GENERALIZED SOCIAL UTILITY FUNCTION BY DEA -- 3. DISENTANGLING THE CAUSAL STRUCTURE: A HIERARCHY OF NESTED SOCIAL UTILITY FUNCTIONS AND TWO-STAGE DEA -- 4. IS A RECONCILIATION OF THE TWIN GOALS POSSIBLE? -- 5. NUMERICAL RESULTS -- 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- DISCLAIMER -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 BENEFITS OF INCLUDING AN ASIAN CURRENCY UNIT (ACU) IN AN OPTIMIZED WORLD CURRENCY BASKET -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHODS.

2.1. Currency Exchange Rates and Currency Baskets -- 2.2. Normalized Measures of Currency Exchange Rate Trends and Volatility -- 2.3. Methods for Creating Currency Baskets or Composite Currencies -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Does the Addition of an ACU Result in a Better Global Currency Basket? -- 3.2. Effect of Adding an ACU on Relative Weights of USD, Euro and Yen in Global Currency Basket -- 3.3. Comparing a Currency Basket with an ACU vis a vis a Basket with Other Popular Currencies -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 THE ROLE AND DESIGN OF WAREHOUSES IN MODERN SUPPLY CHAINS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ROLE OF INVENTORY -- THE ROLE OF WAREHOUSES -- FRAMEWORK FOR IDENTIFYING THE ROLES OF WAREHOUSES -- DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE WAREHOUSES -- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF FLEXIBLE WAREHOUSES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 OPTIMIZATION FOR NETWORK CONGESTION MANAGEMENT WITH ELASTIC EQUILIBRIUM FLOWS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROBLEM FORMULATION -- 2.1. Notation -- 2.2. An Elastic User Equilibrium Traffic Assignment -- 2.3. A MPEC Programme -- 2.4. Sensitivity Analysis by Directional Derivatives -- 2.5. A Non-Linear Inequality Constrained Optimization Problem -- 3. A NOVEL SOLUTION SCHEME -- 3.1. Characteristics of the Non-Linear Inequality Constrained Optimization Problem -- 3.2. A Contractive Subgradient Projection Method -- 3.3. A Novel Solution Scheme -- Step 1.0. (Set initial data) -- Step 2.0. (Compute subgradients) -- Step 3.0. (Compute the subgradient projection) -- Step 4.0. (Conduct the contractive subgradient projection method) -- 4. NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS -- 5. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 ARCHITECTURE OF CCPUL -- 1.1 RESEARCH MOTIVATION AND GOAL -- 1.2. PROBLEM STATEMENT -- 1.3. RESULT AND CONTRIBUTION -- 1.4. SCOPE OF CCPUL -- 1.4.1. Scope.

1.4.2. Thesis Position -- 1.5. ARCHITECTURE OF CCPUL -- 1.5.1. Architecture -- 1.5.2. Architecture for Feedback of Product Usage Cycle -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 OPERATIONAL ISSUES FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 ON PARTNER SELECTION FACTORS AND VENTURES PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESES -- 2.1. Theories on Partner Selection -- 2.1.1. Economic and social perspectives -- 2.1.2. Knowledge-based view -- 2.2. Literature on IJV Partner Selection -- 2.3. Customer-Based Knowledge -- 2.4. Hypotheses -- 2.4.1. Customer related factors and IJV performance -- 2.4.2. Customer related factors and market orientation -- 2.4.3. Market orientation and ijv performance -- 3. METHODS -- 3.1. Measurement -- 3.2. Samples -- 4. RESULTS AND ANALYSES -- 4.1. Sample Description -- 4.1.1. Descriptive statistics -- 4.1.2. Cross-tabulation -- 4.2. Partner Slection Factors and IJV Performance -- Customer-based performance -- Competition-based performance -- Overall performance -- 4.3. Market Orientation -- Market orientation and overall venture performance -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- 5.1. Conclusions -- 5.2. Implications -- 5.2.1. Theoretical implications -- 5.2.2. Managerial implications -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE ON MANAGERIAL KNOWLEDGE: A NEW VISION OF PORTER'S FIVE FORCES SCHEME -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE -- METHODOLOGY -- The "External" Measurement of the Hospitality Structure: The Delphi Study -- The Delphi technique -- Characteristics of the Delphi Sample and the sampling process -- The Questionnaire to Managers -- Self-administered questionnaires sent by e-mail -- Questionnaire characteristics and the sampling process -- Analytic Tools -- RESULTS -- Dimensionality Analysis.

Reliability analysis -- Validity analysis -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX I -- INDEX.

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