• Intermittency and obsolescence: A Croston method with linear decay 

  Prestwich, Steven D.; Tarim, S. Armagan; Rossi, Roberto (Elsevier, 2020-11-03)

  Only two forecasting methods have been designed specifically for intermittent demand with possible demand obsolescence: Teunter–Syntetos–Babai (TSB) and Hyperbolic-Exponential Smoothing (HES). When an item becomes obsolete ...
• Computing optimal (R,s,S) policy parameters by a hybrid of branch-and-bound and stochastic dynamic programming 

  Visentin, Andrea; Prestwich, Steven D.; Rossi, Roberto; Tarim, S. Armagan (Elsevier, 2021-01-13)

  A well-known control policy in stochastic inventory control is the policy, in which inventory is raised to an order-up-to-level S at a review instant R whenever it falls below reorder-level s. To date, little or no work ...
• A holistic analysis towards understanding consumer perceptions of virtual reality devices in the post-adoption phase 

  Dehghani, Milad; Acikgoz, Fulya; Mashatan, Atefeh; Lee, Seung Hwan (Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-01-25)

  Despite gaining consumer momentum and interest of Virtual Reality (VR) in the consumer marketplace, the literature has lagged in exploring the continuance usage behaviour and factors associated with the post-adoption. To ...
• How skilful are US fixed-income fund managers? 

  Clare, Andrew; Cuthbertson, Keith; Nitzsche, Dirk; O'Sullivan, Niall (Elsevier B.V., 2021-01-14)

  We develop a performance evaluation model that incorporates the factors proposed by Huij and Derwall (2008) and a fund-specific benchmark to analyse the performance of US fixed income funds. Using the full sample, and ...
• An analysis of management practices across firm ownership: the case of standalone domestic firms, domestic groups and multinational enterprises 

  Bourke, Jane; Crowley, Frank; Doran, Justin; McDonnell, Anthony (World Scientific Publishing, 2020-06-25)

  Management practices are important drivers of firm productivity [Bloom et al. (2019), What drives differences in management practices? American Economic Review, 109(5), 1648–1683]. While differences in the formalisation ...

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