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A note on: An economic order quantity model for items with imperfect quality and inspection errors
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A vendor-buyer supply chain model with stochastic lead times and screening errors
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Academic Misconduct among Business Students: A Comparison of the US and UAE
(Springer, 2014-01-17)A survey of 345 undergraduate business students from amedium-sized south eastern regional university and 164 undergraduates from a medium-sized university in the United Arab Emirates found that 71% of all respondents ... -
Actionable Insights Through Association Mining of Exchange Rates: A Case Study
(IEEE, 2011)Association mining is the methodology within data mining that researches associations among the elements of a given set, based on how they appear together in multiple subsets of that set. Extensive literature exists on the ... -
Addressing barriers to big data
(Elsavier, 2017)Increasingly, big data is viewed as the most strategic resource of the 21st century, similar in importance to gold and oil. While sitting on these vast pools of data, many organizations are simply notready to take advantage ... -
Adopting a contemporary performance management system
(Emerald, 2014)Purpose – The purpose of this qualitative research is to explore the characteristics and issues related to the transition of a UAE-based fast-growth small-to-medium enterprise (FGSMEs) from the traditional performance ... -
Adopting TQM approach to achieve customer satisfaction : A flour milling company case study
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012, 2012)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a survey of customer satisfaction with regard to the strategy of total quality management (TQM) adopted in a wheat flour milling company. Design/methodol ... -
The adoption of ICT in project‐based and traditional organizations: Evidence from Finnish and Swedish companies
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012, 2012)This research aims to investigate the adoption of electronic communication tools and seeks to shed more light on their diffusion process, a challenging task for project‐based (PBO) and traditional business organizations ... -
The adoption of M-government services from the user’s perspectives: Empirical evidence from the United Arab Emirates
(Elsevier, 2017-10)The primary aim of this study is to examine the factors that predict end users’ intention to adopt mobile government (m-government) services in a developing country. The research is based upon a self-administered questionnaire ... -
AHP framework to assist lean deployment in Abu Dhabi public healthcare delivery system
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce lean concept to the field of healthcare management, expands the conceptualization of lean management beyond the manufacturing companies to consider key waste reduction ... -
Analysis of the bullwhip effect with order batching in multi-echelon supply chains
(Emerald, 2011)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of batching on bullwhip effect in a model of multi‐echelon supply chain with information sharing. Design/methodology/approach – The model uses the system ... -
Antecedents of Employee Alienation and Its Impact on Individual Work Performance during Post-merger Integration in UAE Businesses
(Abu Dhabi University College of Business, 2020)Organizations have been using mergers to advance their tactical position. Though, more contemplation is given to tactical and fiscal goals, whereas social aspects is ignored. The objective of this study was to examine ... -
THE ANTECEDENTS OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTIONS IN THE POLICE FORCE IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
(2017)Reducing the turnover of police personnel, whose purpose is to maintain citizens’ sense of security, could make a significant contribution to a police force’s effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to provide a ... -
THE ANTECEDENTS OF EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTIONS IN THE POLICE FORCE IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
(UNIMAS, 2017)Reducing the turnover of police personnel, whose purpose is to maintain citizens’ sense of security, could make a significant contribution to a police force’s effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework ... -
Application of local search methods for solving a quadratic assignment problem: a case study
(Proceedings of Computers and Industrial Engineering Conference, 2005, 2005)This paper discusses the design and application of local search methods to a real-life application at a steel cord manufacturing plant. The case study involves a layout problem that can be represented as a Quadratic ... -
Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for Selection of Forecasting Software
(Sakarya Üniversity, 2006)In this paper, we described an application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for the ranking and selection of forecasting software. AHP is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approach, which is based on the ... -
Application of the Cutting Stock Problem to a Construction Company: A Case Study
(MIMAG Tureky, 2006)This paper presents an application of the well-known cutting stock problem to a construction firm. The goal of the 1Dimensional (1D) cutting stock problem is to cut the bars of desired lengths in required quantities from ... -
An Approach Based on Multiple Representations and Multiple Queries for Invariant Image Retrieval
(Springer, 2007)In this paper, we present a multiple representations and multiple queries approach to tackle the problem of invariance in the framework of content-based image retrieval (CBIR), especially in the case of texture. This ...