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Companies currently utilize a number of different approaches to making decisions around where to locate factories. This thesis analyzes the specific challenges faced by Polaroid Corporation in making site location decisions ...

An optimal coordination between a design team and a manufacturing team is necessary to minimize the overall cost of a project and to remain competitive. The type of coordination can range from one way communication to ...

Film manufacturing at Eastman Kodak involves large-scale batch steps dictated by both technical and economic factors. Large-scale batch processes can lead to an unresponsive and wasteful supply chain. This thesis explores ...

This work focuses on historical and modern geography-related analysis of semiconductor industry (specifically microlithography) and its role in Information Technology (IT). Following Professor's J.D.Sachs terminology, it ...

The first two chapters of this dissertation study financial asset markets which are not "frictionless." The first chapter focuses on the effects of transaction costs. The second chapter focuses on the interaction between ...

The thesis consists of three essays dealing with corporate governance in an international context. The first essay is entitled "A Cross-Firm Analysis of the Impact of Corporate Governance on the East Asian Financial Crisis." ...

Increasing recognition is being placed, both in industry and in academia, on effective supply chain management. The term supply chain management presupposes that there exists a supply chain to be managed. With a focus on ...

Mergers and acquisitions are not merely a vehicle for corporate control. They are a vehicle for corporate strategic redirection, renewal and a means to obtain new intangible resources - capabilities. Through a review of ...