2007 - Volume 13 - Issue 1
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/11152
2024-03-28T09:00:02ZINTEGRATING THE SUPPLY CHAIN FLOWS FOR BUSINESS EFFECTIVENESS
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/6867
INTEGRATING THE SUPPLY CHAIN FLOWS FOR BUSINESS EFFECTIVENESS
Rahman, Zillur; Qureshi, M. N.
Every transaction, toward physical exchange of goods involves flows of information, material, money, manpower and capital equipment, wherein flows involving information, material and money are vital to maneuver. The exchange of goods necessitates physical flow, information flow and financial flow imbibing inbound logistics and outbound logistics to deliver right material, at right place in right time with right information. The financial flow involves the transaction made either in soft or hard format calls for documents for purchase, sales, shipping, inventory, billing etc. The outcome of every transaction involves exchange of funds. The real hidden potential among the various flows has not been tapped for many decades as the various flows remained unsynchronized. An attempt made to optimize flow singly resulted in vain hence for reaping maximum benefits, the combination of the three flows has to be integrated and optimized. This paper studies the conditions that have led the industry to acknowledge the relationship among these three flows, how their integration will improve efficiency all along the value chain, and the key challenges faced by the decision makers for achieving that integration. Finally, a case study of a hypothetical company Reliablecure, an Indian medical supplies company, has been illustrated for its successful ability to get the highly perishable surgical wound adhesives from its' manufacturing facility in Austria to surgeons across the US, just by seamless integration across the value chain.
2007-03-01T00:00:00ZThe Halloween Effect Anomaly: Evidence from Some Arab Countries Equity Markets
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/6858
The Halloween Effect Anomaly: Evidence from Some Arab Countries Equity Markets
Abu Zarour, Bashar
This paper examines the existence of the Halloween effect for some Arab countries equity markets. The data set used in this study constitutes of daily stock prices for 9 Arab equity markets in the Middle East region. Following Bouman and Jacobsen (2002), we use regression analysis with dummy variables to test for the existence of the Halloween effect in some Arabian equity markets; which is equivalent to a simple mean test. A highly significant Halloween effect documented for 7 out of 9 Arabic equity markets in the Middle East region even after adjustments have been made for January effect.
2007-03-01T00:00:00ZCompromise Management: Proposed Tool For Managing Tradeoffs
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/6852
Compromise Management: Proposed Tool For Managing Tradeoffs
Derrabi, Mohamed; Leseure, Michel
This paper is a conceptual sndy of trade-offs and compromises, both /rom the perspective of their formulation at the strategic level and of their daily use in worl<shops. It suggests tools that can be used for better compromise rnanagement within organizations. This paper makes four propositions: (1) trad.e-ffi are a form of comman lvwwledge embedded and encultured in organizational systems, (2) trade-offs form configuration that are time- and context-sensi' tive, (3) configuration ta.bles presented in this paper are one way of m.odelling the contextual sensitivity and the conncctivity of trad.e-offs, and (4) cladistics classification is one way of modelling the dynarnic structure of trad.e-offs, These propositions are illustrated by an in' depth case study and by a survey of the hand tool industry.
2007-03-01T00:00:00ZMacroeconomic Determinants Of The Behavior of Kuwait Stock Exchange
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/6848
Macroeconomic Determinants Of The Behavior of Kuwait Stock Exchange
Al Mutairi, Abdullah; Al Omar, Husain
This paper is attempt to study the effect of macroeconomic variables and the behaviour of Kuwait stock exchange during the period from 1995 to 2005 using monthly data for both the market and its sub sectors. Interest rate, money supply, inflation, and. government expenditure are the macro variables used, while marl<ct activity is represented by the value of traded shares. Vector autoregression technique is employed to achieve this goal. The study indicates that macroeconomic variables have the expected but a limited impact on the activities of the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Concerning the size of the macroeconomic variables effect, the results show that macroeconornic variables have a long run but limited effect averaging 30%. However this effect varies across sectors with a range from 18% to 30%. In a closer look at the results, on average, inflation has the highest effect among the macro variables with an average of II%, followed by money supply with an average of 6%, then interest rate with an average of 4%, and finally government expenditure with an average of 2.6% On the other hand, the results indicate, on average, that a negative and long term effect of both interest rate and. inflation, a positive and. long term effect of money supply, and a positive and long term effect of government expenditure except for the insurance sector, These results are typical for emerging markets such as that of Kuwait Stock Exchange where speculation dominates the activities in such markets.
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