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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Business
Innovation In Logistics Services, Carlos Mena, Martin Christopher, Mark Johnson, Fu Jia
Innovation In Logistics Services, Carlos Mena, Martin Christopher, Mark Johnson, Fu Jia
Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
The logistics industry manages the flows of products, services and information across customers and suppliers, allowing the integration of supply chains. Innovations in logistics can therefore help improve efficiency and effectiveness across many sectors of the economy. Furthermore, innovation can also have a major impact in reducing the environmental burden of this industry, particularly in terms of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
This overall aim of this report is to understand how the government can encourage and facilitate innovation in the logistics industry. The study focuses mainly on the UK and on the role of third party logistics providers (3PLs). …
Open Innovation And Strategy, Henry W. Chesbrough, Melissa M. Appleyard
Open Innovation And Strategy, Henry W. Chesbrough, Melissa M. Appleyard
Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article discusses a process of business innovation known as open innovation and its relation to traditional business strategy. The competitive strategy developed by Michael Porter emphasized rivalry, buyer power, and barriers to entry as forces that could enhance a producer's surplus. The authors discuss the impact of the Porterian value chain, the processes of production through to the consumer, on subsequent business practices. However, this theory does not account for external sources of value to a company, such as innovation communities, volunteer contributors and surrounding networks, including social networking web sites, open source software and the Wiki model of …
Interview With Dan J. Wilson, Sudan Farms, 2007 (Audio), Dan J. Wilson
Interview With Dan J. Wilson, Sudan Farms, 2007 (Audio), Dan J. Wilson
All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories
Interview of Dan J. Wilson by Jason Keaton at Canby, Oregon on August 10th, 2007.
The interview index is available for download.
Using Reconstructability Analysis For Input Variable Reduction: A Business Example, Stephen Shervais, Martin Zwick
Using Reconstructability Analysis For Input Variable Reduction: A Business Example, Stephen Shervais, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
We demonstrate the use of reconstructability analysis (RA) on the UCI Australian Credit dataset to reduce the number of input variables for two different analysis tools. Using 14 variables, an artificial neural net (NN) is able to predict whether or not credit was granted, with a 79.1% success rate. RA preprocessing allows us to reduce the number of independent variables from 14 to two different sets of three, which have success rates of 77.2% and 76.9% respectively. The difference between these rates and that of the 14-variable NN is not statistically significant. The three-variable rulesets given by RA achieve success …
Interview With Dianne Stefani-Ruff, Portland Farmers Market, 2007 (Audio), Dianne Stefani-Ruff
Interview With Dianne Stefani-Ruff, Portland Farmers Market, 2007 (Audio), Dianne Stefani-Ruff
All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories
Interview of Dianne Stefani-Ruff by Jennifer Bennett on July 31st, 2007.
The interview index is available for download.
Newcomer Adjustment During Organizational Socialization: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Antecedents, Outcomes, And Methods, Talya N. Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, Todd Bodner, Donald M. Truxillo, Jennifer S. Tucker
Newcomer Adjustment During Organizational Socialization: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Antecedents, Outcomes, And Methods, Talya N. Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, Todd Bodner, Donald M. Truxillo, Jennifer S. Tucker
Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
The authors tested a model of antecedents and outcomes of newcomer adjustment using 70 unique samples of newcomers with meta-analytic and path modeling techniques. Specifically, they proposed and tested a model in which adjustment (role clarity, self-efficacy, and social acceptance) mediated the effects of organizational socialization tactics and information seeking on socialization outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job performance, intentions to remain, and turnover). The results generally supported this model. In addition, the authors examined the moderating effects of methodology on these relationships by coding for 3 methodological issues: data collection type (longitudinal vs. cross-sectional), sample characteristics (school-to-work vs. work-to-work …
Global Sourcing And Logistics, Martin Christopher, Fu Jia, Omera Khan, Carlos Mena, Erik Sandberg
Global Sourcing And Logistics, Martin Christopher, Fu Jia, Omera Khan, Carlos Mena, Erik Sandberg
Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
The sourcing of products from across the global marketplace is an increasing trend associated with economic development. This trend is the result of many independent decisions taken by firms around the world looking for new sources of competitive advantage. However, these decisions can also have unintended consequences, exposing the firms to hidden costs and risks, creating congestion at different points in the global transport infrastructure and increasing emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.
This report presents the results of a project conducted in 2006-07, aimed at improving global sourcing practices, with a particular emphasis on the implications for the UK. …
University Place, Todd Bouchard, Matthew Collier, David Fenwick, Justin Isle, Dan Johnson, Jeremy Mcveety, Chris Peterson, Amy Shum
University Place, Todd Bouchard, Matthew Collier, David Fenwick, Justin Isle, Dan Johnson, Jeremy Mcveety, Chris Peterson, Amy Shum
Real Estate Development Workshop Projects
Students from Portland State University's Center for Real Estate produce a development plan for a recently acquired 4.03 acre property site called University Place. Their task was to produce an original development plan, including the development concept, market analysis, conceptual design, economic analysis, capital and operations budget, and management plan.
'Negotiated' Transparency? Corporate Citizenship Engagement And Environmental Disclosure, Scott Marshall, Darrell Brown, Marlene Plumlee
'Negotiated' Transparency? Corporate Citizenship Engagement And Environmental Disclosure, Scott Marshall, Darrell Brown, Marlene Plumlee
Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
Corporate stakeholder relations are historically typified by power imbalances and mistrust, but in recent times, they are increasingly characterized by 'dialogue' based on mutual understanding and creative action. In this paper we consider corporate engagements with two external stakeholder groups, citizenship-focused non-governmental organizations (NGO) and institutional investors, and examine the potential association between these engagements and corporate disclosure of environmental information. Based on a sample of 183 firms over a three-year time period, we analyze the relationships between NGO engagement, investor activism and the quality of corporate voluntary environmental disclosure. Our findings suggest that engagement with skills-focused NGOs and the …