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The 39th international conference of the EURO working group on operational research applied to health services: ORAHS 2013 special issue
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2015-09)The healthcare sector is facing major challenges worldwide in terms of higher demands for efficiency, quality and equity. Operational Research (OR) techniques offer valuable tools for improving the design and delivery of ... -
Accelerated learning of user profiles
(Informs, 2011-02)Websites typically provide several links on each page visited by a user. Whereas some of these links help users easily navigate the site, others are typically used to provide targeted recommendations based on the available ... -
Action research contextualizes DEA in a multi-organizational decision-making process
(Elsevier, 2012-06-01)The theory of participatory action research (PAR) grew out of the practice of problem-solving in groups and organization by involving the participation of all pertinent stakeholders in decision-making process through ... -
An actor-network theory (ANT) approach: analysis of Turkish e-government gateway initiative
(2009)There are various models proposed in the literature to analyze trajectories of e-Government projects in terms of success and failure. Yet, only the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective (Heeks and Stanforth, 2007) considers ... -
Addressing endogeneity in the causal relationship between sustainability and financial performance
(Elsevier, 2019-04)The existing empirical literature on the relationship between corporate sustainability performance and corporate financial performance casts doubt on the direction of this relationship although more studies point out a ... -
Altering the environment to improve appointment system performance
(Informs, 2019-06)Current research on clinic performance is focused primarily on appointment scheduling rather than shaping the clinical environments. The goal of this study is to investigate the impact of environmental factors on the total ... -
Alışveri̇ş merkezleri̇ni̇n Türki̇ye’deki̇ mevzuat çerçevesi̇nde değerlendi̇ri̇lmesi̇
(Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, 2017)Küresel ölçekte alışveriş merkezlerinin tarihsel gelişim süreci incelendiğinde, ticaret alanlarının alışveriş merkezlerine dönüşüm sürecinde ilk adımların Avrupa’da atıldığı bilinmektedir (Birol, 2005; Geç, 2008 ve Kiriş, ... -
Ambulance location for maximum survival
(Wiley, 2008-02)This article proposes new location models for emergency medical service stations. The models are generated by incorporating a survival function into existing covering models. A survival function is a monotonically decreasing ... -
App popularity: Where in the world are consumers most sensitive to price and user ratings?
(American Marketing Association, 2018-09)Many companies compete globally in a world in which user ratings and price are important drivers of performance but whose importance may differ by country. This study builds on the cultural, economic, and structural ... -
The appreciative democratic voice of DEA: a case of faculty academic performance evaluation
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is in fact more than just being an instrument for measuring the relative efficiencies of a group of decision making units (DMU). DEA models are also means of expressing appreciative democratic ... -
Approximating vehicle dispatch probabilities for emergency service systems with location-specific service times and multiple units per location
(Informs, 2009-02)To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system, one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. ... -
Are crowdsourcing announcements signals of customer orientation? A comparison of consumer responses to product- versus communication-related campaigns
(Emerald, 2023-05-05)Purpose: This study aims to examine consumers’ responses to crowdsourcing campaigns in the request initiation stage using the signaling theory from economics. The purpose of the research is threefold. First, it provides a ... -
Assessing consequences of component sharing across brands in the vertical product line in the automotive market
(Wiley, 2012-07)Component sharing may look great in the boardroom, but not in the showroom. Indeed, savings on R&D and production costs could be offset by a plunge in customer brand attractiveness. Combining experimental with econometric ... -
Assessment of patient classification in appointment system design
(Production and Operations Management Society, 2008-05)This paper investigates two approaches to patient classification: using patient classification only for sequencing patient appointments at the time of booking and using patient classification for both sequencing and ... -
Baked beats grilled: a calorie analysis of 18,000 menu items in fast food chain restaurants
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Fast food and chain restaurants often give the menu items descriptive names related to the production processes (e.g., baked, fried, grilled, glazed). Do these descriptions in a food’s name provide a useful indication of ... -
Battle of the brand fans: impact of brand attack and defense on social media(article)
(Elsevier, 2018-08)Fans of a brand attack fans of rival brands on social media. Given the nature of such rival brand fan attacks, managers are unsure about how much control they should exercise on brand-negative comments on their owned social ... -
Being a woman entrepreneur in Turkey: Life role expectations and entrepreneurial self-efficacy
(Sage, 2019-05)Two major competing life roles, work and family, are reported to dominate people's efforts in constructing a life. Here, we aim to explore whether and how attributed life roles and related coping strategies of current and ... -
Big and lean is beautiful: a conceptual framework for data-based learning in marketing management
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-09-19)While Big Data offer marketing managers information that is high in volume, variety, velocity, and veracity (the 4Vs), these features wouldn't necessarily improve their decision-making. Managers would still be vulnerable ... -
Bringing sustainability to the heart of a university through teaching, research and service
(EDP Sciences, 2018)In this short paper, we summarize our targeted efforts at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey for establishing a sustainable research, teaching and learning environment. The University is striving to have highest level ... -
Build-to-order meets global sourcing: planning challenge for the auto industry
(Springer, 2011)Auto manufacturers today face many challenges: The industry is plagued with excess capacity that drives down prices, international competitors are seizing share at both ends of the market and consumers are well informed ...
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