查看更多>>摘要：Diversity brings significant value to today's business organisations. One of the primary objectives for many business organisations, therefore, is to focus more closely on the issues involved with these changing organisational concerns. Workplace diversity, alongside generating value through resonance with a multicultural global marketplace and associations to innovation, is expected to grow further in status over the next ten years considering multiple demographic factors. Yet, the developments surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic continue to hinder the pursuit of these positive goals. The direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic stand to affect workforce diversity and inclusion efforts in significant ways. Research findings have highlight significant levels of health, economic, and racial inequalities among individuals affected by COVID-19 as a potential consequence of poverty, access to care, and roles as essential workers. The present research study will provide an exploration of how the global pandemic has impacted diversity in the work environment within the past 18 months in light of decades of workplace diversity gains achieved. This vital area of discussion is set into a historical timeframe that will necessarily address how the recent global issues influence the direction of diversity efforts.
查看更多>>摘要：As exemplified by the COVID-19 situation, there is a need to conduct strategic decision-making research through a process approach for crises where threats, uncertainties, instabilities, pressures, and various negative environmental factors are present or coming. The purpose of this research is to examine the presence of rational strategic decision-making processes and relevant factors involved in a crisis context from empirical managerial practice. This research is based on seven multi-case study interviews of both top and middle level managers from multiple industries. Empirical evidence indicates the predominance of a rational strategic decision-making process with intuitive elements incorporated within a situation of crisis. A rational strategic decision-making process with intuitive elements embedded in is derived and structured from the data collected. This paper further presents many influential factors in the processes that are either already known (e.g., information, uncertainty, heterogeneity, dynamism) or newly discovered/named (e.g., regulatory requirement, sustainability and heteroturbulence).
查看更多>>摘要：In addition to reducing chain costs, it is possible to meet the chain greening goals by considering both forward and reverse flows in designing a supply chain network. Utilising strategies such as vehicle routing accompanied by simultaneous pickup and delivery, hub location, and inventory management will also help reduce costs and make the chain greener. The importance of developing the green reverse supply chain networks and applying these strategies has increased by emerging the perishable product chain. In this regard, the present paper aims to develop a green reverse supply chain network for the distribution of dairy products including yogurt drinks with the possibility of simultaneous pickup and delivery under uncertainty. In the current model, the minimisation of total chain costs and lost demand is simultaneously considered and a fuzzy solution method is provided to solve the bi-objective model.
查看更多>>摘要：In today's world of exhausting non-renewable fossil fuels and ever-growing pollution on a global scale, there is an urgent need to focus on overcoming the climate changes caused by pollution. The auto industry being a major contributor to air pollution, came up with an alternative, electric vehicles. The objective of this paper is to identify, categorise and prioritise the barriers to the adoption of electric vehicles on a mass scale and to propose an implication model for industries. This study identifies 53 barriers through an extensive literature review and expert opinions and classifies them into four main categories. The significance of various subcategory barriers is evaluated using Pareto analysis. The ranking is done according to weights, which are determined by a novel full consistency method (FUCOM) approach. The result of this study reveals that out of 53 barriers, the vital few came out to be 24 barriers. Further among the four main category barriers, the economic barrier (EB) and knowledge management barrier (KMB) are found to be the most and the least influential main category barriers, respectively. The findings of this study will be beneficial to industrial managers and top-level management of the electric vehicles (EVs) auto industry.
查看更多>>摘要：Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology that is widely used in business to measure efficiency and performance. The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overview of its areas of use and the most important methodological enhancements. The extensive literature on DEA will be reviewed with the help of previously published literature reviews. The main applications of DEA are identified as healthcare, banking and insurance, higher education and the human sphere, transportation and supply chain management, sustainability, and energy policy. The reviews mainly address service applications for benchmarking efficiency - manufacturing was not addressed. The DEA-related methodological developments were ranking, managing data status, weight and input/output selection, and network and dynamic extensions. The management literature makes much use of the DEA method for decision support and performance measurement.
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