Supplier selection, control mechanisms, and firm innovation: Configuration analysis based on fsQCA

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Employee proactive behaviors have the capacity to considerably improve the company's innovation performance. However, this relationship can be moderated by the impact of different organizational control mechanisms and degree of innovation process formalization which prevails. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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The Role of Formal and Informal Control Mechanisms for Supplier Selection: Experimental Evidence

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1837231 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Bart Dierynck ◽

Filip Roodhooft

Keyword(s):

Experimental Evidence ◽

Supplier Selection ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

Informal Control

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Human enterocytic apoptosis and survival: Differentiation state-specific control mechanisms

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(01)82491-4 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 120 (5) ◽

pp. A502-A502

Author(s):

R GAUTHIER ◽

J DROLET ◽

J REED ◽

A VEZINA ◽

P VACHON

Keyword(s):

Control Mechanisms ◽

Specific Control

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Do Executive Motor-Control Mechanisms Regulate Monetary Choice and Gambling?

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e520602012-021 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick Verbruggen ◽

Rachel Adams ◽

Chris Chambers

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Control Mechanisms

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Metabolism, Structure and Function of Plant Tetrapyrroles: Control Mechanisms of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis and Analysis of Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins

10.1016/s0065-2296(19)x0003-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Binding Proteins ◽

Chlorophyll Biosynthesis ◽

Structure And Function ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

And Function

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The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1636285 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 05 (03) ◽

pp. 142-146

Author(s):

A. Kent ◽

P. J. Vinken

Keyword(s):

Information Needs ◽

English Language ◽

Medical Information ◽

Biomedical Literature ◽

Information Storage ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

University Of Pittsburgh ◽

The World ◽

The University ◽

Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

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Control of Thrombin Mediated Cleavage of Protein S

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1661630 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 56 (02) ◽

pp. 151-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Christina A Mitchell ◽

Lena Hau ◽

Hatem H Salem

Keyword(s):

Anticoagulant Activity ◽

Activated Protein C ◽

Surface Protein ◽

Protein S ◽

Intact Protein ◽

Control Mechanisms ◽

Physiological Control ◽

Endothelial Cell Surface ◽

Thrombin Cleavage ◽

Cofactor Activity

SummaryThrombin has been shown to cleave the vitamin K dependent cofactor protein S with subsequent loss of its cofactor activity. This study examines the control mechanisms for thrombin cleavage of protein S.The anticoagulant activity of activated protein C (APC) is enhanced fourteen fold by the addition of protein S. Thrombin cleaved protein S is seven fold less efficient than the native protein, and this loss of activity is due to reduced affinity of cleaved protein S for APC or the lipid surface compared to the intact protein.In the absence of Ca++, protein S is very sensitive to minimal concentrations of thrombin. As little as 1.5 nM thrombin results in complete cleavage of 20 nM protein S in 10 min and loss of cofactor activity. Ca++, in concentrations greater than 0.5 mM, will inhibit this cleavage and in the presence of physiological Ca++ concentrations, no cleavage of protein S could be demonstrated in spite of high concentrations of thrombin (up to 1 μM) and prolonged incubations (up to two hours). The endothelial surface protein thrombomodulin is very efficient in inhibiting the cleavage of protein S by thrombin suggesting that any thrombin formed on the endothelial cell surface is unlikely to cleave protein S, thus allowing the intact protein to act as a cofactor to APC.We conclude that the inhibitory effects of Ca++ and thrombomodulin on thrombin mediated cleavage of protein S imply that this event, by itself, is unlikely to represent a physiological control of the activity of protein S.

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Integrated FAHP-VIKOR model for green supplier selection in a Nickle coating SME

WEENTECH Proceedings in Energy ◽

10.32438/wpe.0602126 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 133-139

Author(s):

Sanatan Ratna ◽

B Kumar

Keyword(s):

Staff Training ◽

Supplier Selection ◽

Fuzzy Ahp ◽

Research Work ◽

Supplier Evaluation ◽

Green Supplier Selection ◽

The Past ◽

Coating Industry ◽

Sustainability Issue ◽

Selection Of

In the past few decades, there has been lot of focus on the issue of sustainability. This has occurred due to the growing concerns related to climate change and the growing awareness about environmental concerns. Also, the competition at global level has led to the search for the most sustainable route in the industries. The current research work deals with the selection of green supplier in a Nickle coating industry based on certain weighted green attributes. For this purpose, a hybrid tool comprising of Fuzzy AHP (Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy) and VIKOR (VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) is used. The Fuzzy AHP is used for assigning proper weights to the selected criteria for supplier evaluation, while VIKOR is used for final supplier selection based on the weighted criteria. The three criterions for green supplier selection are, Ecological packaging, Corporate socio-environmental responsibility and Staff Training. The outcome of the integrated model may serve as a steppingstone to other SMEs in different sectors for selecting the most suitable supplier for addressing the sustainability issue.

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