Global Operations Management

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Abstract......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 13
Title I: Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)......Page 15
Title III: Corporate Responsibility......Page 16
Title IV: Enhanced Financial Disclosures......Page 17
Title VI: Commission Resources and Authority......Page 18
Title XI: Corporate Fraud Accountability......Page 19
3. Productivity and Efficiency of Accounting Firms......Page 20
4. Going-Public and Going-Private Decisions......Page 21
5. Small Firms......Page 23
6. Lobbying Approach......Page 25
7. Risk, Return and Market Reaction......Page 27
8. Trend in Corporate Governance......Page 30
9. International Implications and Comparisons......Page 33
10. Solving the Problems or Healing the Symptoms?......Page 35
11. Conclusion and Recommendations......Page 37
References......Page 39
Appendix: Research Findings on SOX......Page 41
Abstract......Page 60
1. Background and the Task Ahead......Page 61
2. Estimating a Cobb-Douglas Generalized Social Utility Function by DEA......Page 63
3. Disentangling the Causal Structure: A Hierarchy of Nested Social Utility Functions and Two-Stage DEA......Page 68
4. Is a Reconciliation of the Twin Goals Possible?......Page 71
5. Numerical Results......Page 72
6. Concluding Remarks......Page 80
References......Page 81
Abstract......Page 84
1. Introduction......Page 85
2.2. Normalized Measures of Currency Exchange Rate Trends and Volatility......Page 86
2.3. Methods for Creating Currency Baskets or Composite Currencies......Page 88
3.1. Does the Addition of an ACU Result in a Better Global Currency Basket?......Page 89
3.2. Effect of Adding an ACU on Relative Weights of USD, Euro and Yen in Global Currency Basket......Page 91
3.3. Comparing a Currency Basket with an ACU vis a vis a Basket with Other Popular Currencies......Page 92
4. Conclusions......Page 93
References......Page 94
Abstract......Page 96
The Role of Inventory......Page 97
The Role of Warehouses......Page 99
Framework for Identifying the Roles of Warehouses......Page 101
Design of Flexible Warehouses......Page 103
Performance Measurement of Flexible Warehouses......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 106
References......Page 107
1. Introduction......Page 110
2. Problem Formulation......Page 112
2.3. A MPEC Programme......Page 113
2.4. Sensitivity Analysis by Directional Derivatives......Page 114
3.1. Characteristics of the Non-Linear Inequality Constrained Optimization Problem......Page 115
3.2. A Contractive Subgradient Projection Method......Page 116
Step 4.0. (Conduct the contractive subgradient projection method)......Page 121
4. Numerical Calculations......Page 122
References......Page 126
1.1 Research motivation and goal......Page 128
1.2. Problem Statement......Page 129
1.3. Result and Contribution......Page 130
1.4.2. Thesis Position......Page 131
1.5.1. Architecture......Page 136
1.5.2. Architecture for Feedback of Product Usage Cycle......Page 137
References......Page 138
Introduction......Page 142
References......Page 145
1. Introduction......Page 146
2.1.1. Economic and social perspectives......Page 148
2.1.2. Knowledge-based view......Page 149
2.2. Literature on IJV Partner Selection......Page 150
2.3. Customer-Based Knowledge......Page 152
2.4.1. Customer related factors and IJV performance......Page 153
2.4.3. Market orientation and ijv performance......Page 154
3.1. Measurement......Page 155
4. Results and Analyses......Page 157
4.1.2. Cross-tabulation......Page 158
Customer-based performance......Page 159
4.3. Market Orientation......Page 162
5.2.1. Theoretical implications......Page 164
5.2.2. Managerial implications......Page 165
References......Page 166
Introduction......Page 176
Theoretical Perspective......Page 177
The “External” Measurement of the Hospitality Structure: The Delphi Study......Page 182
Characteristics of the Delphi Sample and the sampling process......Page 183
The Questionnaire to Managers......Page 184
Questionnaire characteristics and the sampling process......Page 185
Analytic Tools......Page 186
Dimensionality Analysis......Page 189
Reliability analysis......Page 190
Validity analysis......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 194
References......Page 195
Appendix I......Page 199
Index......Page 202