Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 23 Issue 3

Benchmarking national culture and decent work practice indicators in project-based industry: Lessons from United Arab Emirates

Asadullah Khan, Maqsood Sandhu

The purpose of this paper is to benchmark national culture in the context of decent work practices in project-based industry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This should help in…

Better practice prediction using neural networks: an application to the smartphone industry

He-Boong Kwon, James Jungbae Roh, Nicholas Miceli

The purpose of this paper is to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) based prediction model via integration with data envelopment analysis (DEA) to provide the means of…

Application of integrated TOPSIS in ASC index: partners benchmarking perspective

Anoop Kumar Sahu, Nitin Kumar Sahu, Atul Kumar Sahu

In the rapidly changing business environment, companies must align with suppliers to streamline operations, as well as working together to achieve a level of agility beyond…

Demand-supply balancing in manufacturing operations

Joakim Coker, Petri Helo

Demand-supply balancing (DSB) strategies and approaches are becoming increasingly important for manufacturing and operations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze practices of…

Suitability of performance indicators and benchmarking practices in UK universities

Kong Fah Tee

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a common framework for benchmarking practices used in higher education.

Using interpretive structure modeling to analyze the interactions between environmental sustainability boundary enablers

Navin K. Dev, Ravi Shankar

The modern business community understands the importance of long-term satisfaction of consumer. Enabling the consumer to return products is a significant part of the equation. The…

Mainstreaming corporate environmental strategy in management research

Sung-Wook Kang, Ki-Hoon Lee

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current status of corporate environmental strategy (CES) in mainstream business and management literature, and to…

Evaluation and selection of resilient suppliers in fuzzy environment: Exploration of fuzzy-VIKOR

Anoop Kumar Sahu, Saurav Datta, S.S. Mahapatra

Supply chains (SCs) have become increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic events/disruptions that may be natural or man-made. Hurricanes, tsunamis and floods are natural disasters…

Reducing transportation emissions: Company intentions, barriers and discriminating factors

Henrik Pålsson, Ola Johansson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the intention of companies to reduce transportation emissions by 2020 and the barriers and the discriminating factors that affect the…

Best performance modeling using complementary DEA-ANN approach: Application to Japanese electronics manufacturing firms

He-Boong Kwon, Jooh Lee, James Jungbae Roh

The purpose of this paper is to design an innovative performance modeling system by jointly using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and artificial neural network (ANN). The hybrid…

Benchmarking hospitals through a web based platform

Maria Conceição A. Silva Portela, Ana Santos Camanho, Diogo Queiroz Almeida, Luiz Lopes, Sofia Nogueira Silva, Ricardo Castro

In a context of international economic crisis the improvement in the efficiency and productivity of public services is seen as a way to maintain high-quality levels at lower…

Application of PCA and DEA to recognize the true expertise of a firm: a case with primary schools

Subhadip Sarkar

The purpose of this paper is to identify important dimensions which are essential to remain competitive. To generate scores which will be as effective as the original outputs to…