...Frank Wiengarten; Eamonn Ambrose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the geographical location of and thus the geographical distance between buyer and supplier impact on the efficacy of purchasing practices (i.e. strategic purchasing management, tactical purchasing...

...B.L. MacCarthy; W. Atthirawong Only a limited amount of research has been reported on factors influencing international location decisions for contemporary manufacturing operations. In this paper a comprehensive set of factors that may influence international location decisions is identified from...

... side‐effect of the exploratory study, at least from a managerial point of view. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Multinationals Service operations Location Decision making Case studies Since companies have begun to pursue international manufacturing strategies, geographically dispersed...

...Vaidyanathan Jayaraman Examines the interdependence between facility location, transportation and inventory issues in a distribution network design problem. Management of inventories, determination of transportation policy, and location of plants and distribution centers are normally carried out...

...E.B. Grant; M.J. Gregory Identifies factors influencing the adaptation of manufacturing processes for international transfer. Proposes that these factors should be divided into those affecting the operation of the process in its new location, and those that influence the transfer itself...

...Sohail S. Chaudhry; In‐Chan Choi; David K. Smith The p‐median problem involves the locating of a fixed number of facilities to serve a set of customers such that the aggregate distance travelled is minimized. Considers the p‐median problem with and without distance constraints...

...Masood A. Badri; Donald L. Davis; Donna Davis Investigates the industrial location decision behaviour of firms. The behaviour was determined by an examination of the firms′ attitudes measured on “location variables”. Firms representing various countries that actually located in an international...

... to the expansion site′s future performance. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Brewing industry Global marketing Location Multinationals Optimal performance factors Production management Quantitative technologies Over the years one of the most prominent corporate growth strategies has been...

...John F. Repede; Carol J. Jeffries; Edward Hubbard Like many operations research models, ambulance location models suffer from lack of practical implementation by those who could benefit from them. A major obstacle to adoption of such models is the emphasis their developers place on abstract...

...George P. Artikis Aims to identify factors which affect the location decisions of companies in the Greek metal industry. Attempts to determine what these factors are, how important they are relative to each other and how important taxes and inducements (financial factor) are in the process...

...Shams‐ur Rahman; David K. Smith The performance of Ardalan′s heuristic is compared with that of Teitz and Bart for the location of service facilities, where performance is assessed in terms of the accuracy of solutions. The comparison is made considering two kinds of location problem: p...

...George P. Artikis Attempts by Greek governments to attract manufacturing industry to problem regions have been shaped by a large number of development laws. Location policy works principally by influencing the decisions of individual firms. The article examines the relevance of Greek government...