Firms reduce production

This article seeks to provide research opportunities in supply chain networks. For manufacturing industries, materials supply is an essential input to the production process for a sustainability value creation for firms and stakeholders. However, due to several reasons have caused issues to material short supplies in the production process that caused additional cost leading to a negative impact to firm operating performance.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Economics rules: Why economics works, when it fails, and how to tell the difference" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 4 - Models and theories; Chapter 5 - When economists go wrong; Chapter 6 - Economics and its critics; epilogue the twenty commandments;...

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The deficiency of secure and reliable electrical power is a constraint to firm performance and its competitiveness in developing countries. Several countries in the south Asian region face electricity shortages leading to frequent power outages. This study investigate the effect of power outages on the technical efficiency of firms in selected South Asian countries. The study employed the stochastic frontier approach to estimate the technical efficiency of firms. We use the OLS and Beta regression to estimate the effect of power outages on technical efficiency of manufacturing firms.

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Chapter 11 is entitled “Supply partnerships and supply chain power.” The intense coordination necessary for effective supply chain integration necessitates a reduced supplier base; where manufacturers were once producing products with thousands of suppliers, successful firms are now manufacturing better products with fewer suppliers.

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This study considers for the first time the role of rising import competition on employment in Vietnam. Using a time differenced and instrumental variables approach, our study shows that import competition results in employment contraction. Firms operating in industries that face greater import competition have reduced employment.

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This paper analyzes factors that may enhance a firm’s propensity to implement cleaner prod- ucts and production technologies rather than end-of-pipe technologies. While both of these two fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of- pipe technologies for both environmental and economic reasons.

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Just as the share ownership structure delineates a firm’s agency problem, it also impacts the firm’s reporting. When an owner effectively controls a firm, he/she also controls the production of the firm’s accounting information and reporting policies. When the controlling owner is entrenched by his/her voting power and there is a large separation of the voting and cash flow rights, the credibility of the accounting information is reduced.

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Amazonis arguably one of the most successful online firms. As of this writing, its market value is over $79 billion, 40 percent higher than the combined value of two large and successful offline retailers, Target and Kohl’s, who have 2800 stores between them. Jeff Bezos conceived of Amazon as a business model with many potential advantages relative to a physical operation. It held out the potential of lower inventory and distribution costs and reduced overhead.

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A main aspect of our empirical exercise concerns the nature of the shock affect- ing the economy. The introduction of cloud computing allows firms from all sectors to reduce fixed costs in ICT and turn part of them into variable costs. In our analy- sis we focus on the reduction in the fixed cost associated with the introduction of cloud computing.

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Moreover, the question of whether and over what time frame negative (positive) externalities might be eliminated (rewarded), or how these externalities are an element of the company’s business model, is up for debate. For example, companies that actively invest in technologies to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or to develop products to help their customers reduce their GHG emissions, make a bet on regulators imposing a tax on GHG emissions.

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The report also identifies water-related risks for electric power/energy, apparel, biotechnology/pharmaceutical, forest products and metals/mining firms. For companies in these and other sectors, climate change will further reduce the availability of reliable and high quality water, impacting productivity, costs, revenues, public goodwill and reputation. The report highlights the intensifying conflict between energy use and water availability. With increasing frequency, choosing one of these resources means undermining the other – the other, usually being water.

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Critical features of a sound investment climate include a sensible governance system that allows firms and farms to pursue productive activity without harassment, contracts and property rights to be respected and corruption to be reduced. Equally important is an infrastructure that allows private entrepreneurs and their employees to operate effectively. Competition and, where necessary, regulation are essential to channel private initiative in socially useful directions.

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