... for route planning with a safety-based objective are original. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Helicopters Oil industry Passenger transport Air safety Norway In the Norwegian offshore petroleum industry, offshore workers usually start their shift by taking helicopters...

... PhD dissertations within logistics and SCM were worked up in three main steps which are explained in the following subsections. The first step in identifying all Nordic dissertations was to contact research institutions within the Nordic countries (Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden...

... important. Bernt E. Tysseland can be contacted at: btysseland@sksk.mil.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Spare parts Norway Defence sector Optimization techniques Project planning Approximately, 33 per cent of the annual defence budget in Norway [1] is connected...

..., Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The paper further seeks to explain variations in the research field in terms of the demographics, research domains and methodologies, and publication patterns of the study's respondents. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail questionnaire survey was distributed to 353...

... case study of reverse distribution systems for electrical and electronic products in Norway. Findings The empirical results indicate that lack of coordination across flows increases costs and reduces the service level, and a low level of coordinated action is achieved. In contrast, it is also found...

... Optimization techniques Production planning Meat Norway This paper reports on an MIP model created for a project that has been set up with The Norwegian Meat Research Centre (Fagsenteret for kjøtt), Molde University College, and the largest cooperative and private slaughterhouses in Norway, Gilde...

... the world there is a range of contexts that may influence determinants. Norway has distinctive features including export dependency with a small home market, a peripheral location, and an extreme topography and climate. Despite an awareness of logistics concepts, Norwegian exporters appear to place more...