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Clare Brindley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Disintermediation, disintegration and risk in the SME global supply chain
Management Decision, 2000Co-Authors: Bob Ritchie, Clare BrindleyAbstract:The papers premiss is that the extant linear supply chain Relationship Model that dominates most sectors will rapidly be replaced by a more amorphous supply chain Relationship Model. It is suggested that entirely new business Models are appearing, where the ability to build flexible alliances at speed is a critical management skill. Although these changes will have an impact on all organisations irrespective of size, the focus of the paper is directed towards the SME sector. It is anticipated that the outcomes from this review and the associated research will enhance awareness and understanding of the nature of changes to markets and commercial/supply chain Relationships, highlight the potential opportunities and risks and provide guidelines for the developments in strategic management, Relationship marketing and risk management
Gwo-hshiung Tzeng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A balanced scorecard approach to establish a performance evaluation and Relationship Model for hot spring hotels based on a hybrid MCDM Model combining DEMATEL and ANP
International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2011Co-Authors: Fu Hsiang Chen, Gwo-hshiung TzengAbstract:Abstract The balanced scorecard approach is an effective technique for performance evaluation. For more accurately reflecting the dependence and feedback problems of each factor in real world situations, here a new Model is developed using a balanced scorecard approach for evaluating the performance of hot spring hotel. A DANP hybrid MCDM Model is adopted to solve the dependence and feedback problems, while establishing a performance evaluation and Relationship Model. An empirical case study is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid MCDM Model. Based on this study, the perspective between ‘learning and growth’, ‘enterprise's internal processes’, and ‘customer’, all aim for solid financial performance as the ultimate goal, and report a positive influence. This effective performance evaluation Model developed by applying the hybrid MCDM enables business managers to understand the appropriate actions and achieve a competitive advantage.
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A balanced scorecard approach to establish a performance evaluation and Relationship Model for hot spring hotels based on a hybrid MCDM Model combining DEMATEL and ANP
International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2011Co-Authors: Fu Hsiang Chen, Tsung Shin Hsu, Gwo-hshiung TzengAbstract:The balanced scorecard approach is an effective technique for performance evaluation. For more accurately reflecting the dependence and feedback problems of each factor in real world situations, here a new Model is developed using a balanced scorecard approach for evaluating the performance of hot spring hotel. A DANP hybrid MCDM Model is adopted to solve the dependence and feedback problems, while establishing a performance evaluation and Relationship Model. An empirical case study is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid MCDM Model. Based on this study, the perspective between 'learning and growth', 'enterprise's internal processes', and 'customer', all aim for solid financial performance as the ultimate goal, and report a positive influence. This effective performance evaluation Model developed by applying the hybrid MCDM enables business managers to understand the appropriate actions and achieve a competitive advantage. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Bob Ritchie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Disintermediation, disintegration and risk in the SME global supply chain
Management Decision, 2000Co-Authors: Bob Ritchie, Clare BrindleyAbstract:The papers premiss is that the extant linear supply chain Relationship Model that dominates most sectors will rapidly be replaced by a more amorphous supply chain Relationship Model. It is suggested that entirely new business Models are appearing, where the ability to build flexible alliances at speed is a critical management skill. Although these changes will have an impact on all organisations irrespective of size, the focus of the paper is directed towards the SME sector. It is anticipated that the outcomes from this review and the associated research will enhance awareness and understanding of the nature of changes to markets and commercial/supply chain Relationships, highlight the potential opportunities and risks and provide guidelines for the developments in strategic management, Relationship marketing and risk management
Bernhard Thalheim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Entity-Relationship Model
Entity-Relationship Modeling, 2020Co-Authors: Bernhard ThalheimAbstract:In the remaining chapters, we discuss the extended entity-Relationship Model, the higher-order entity-Relationship Model HERM. However, in order to understand why it is necessary to extend the Model, we will briefly discuss the original ER Model first published by Chen [Che76]. It has been extended or restricted by several authors. The number of extensions can be estimated to be more than 80. Further, the Model has been used with different semantics and different intentions. The graphical notation has been stable. Some of the restrictions, such as the limitation to binary Relationship types or the limitation to 1-n-binary Relationship types (functions), led to frightening Modeling. Extensions of the Model can be safe or unsafe. In Sect. 4 we show how to extend the original ER Model to a safe, well-founded and practicable ER Model. Due to the problems with pointer or reference semantics we only use set semantics.
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Extending the Entity-Relationship Model
Entity-Relationship Modeling, 2020Co-Authors: Bernhard ThalheimAbstract:At this point we will introduce the structural part of the higher-order entity-Relationship Model (HERM). In this section, it will be shown that a well-founded theory exists for this Model. Furthermore, there are several other advantages to the HERM approach: HERM schemes are much simpler and easier to understand than ER Model schemes. HERM schemes support abstraction in a simple but comprehensible manner. HERM schemes can be translated together with the corresponding constraints, user-defined operations and generic operations into normalized relational, hierarchical or network schemes.
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Handbook of Conceptual Modeling - The Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model
Handbook of Conceptual Modeling, 2011Co-Authors: Bernhard ThalheimAbstract:This chapter introduces an extended entity-Relationship Model. Structural extensions are complex attributes, cluster or generalisation types, and higher-order Relationship types. These extensions still allow a hierarchical construction of schema items. Therefore, a layered predicate logic can be defined. Classical integrity constraints are thus definable on the basis of this logics. The structuring of a database consists of a schema together with a set of static integrity constraints. Database design is nowadays based on the co-design of structuring and functionality. Therefore, extended entity-Relationship Model languages are supported by explicit functionality. The relational algebra and aggregation functions are generalised for extended entity-Relationship Models. Therefore, queries, transactions and workflows can directly be defined within the Model. Additionally, views can be defined in a more general setting. This extension also supports a novel and sophisticated simple definition of the OLAP cube and its treatment. Semantics generalises the entire theory of relational integrity constraints in such a way that constraint handling and specification can be entirely managed at the conceptual level. Finally, we show how constraint specification can be supported.
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Foundations of entity-Relationship Modeling
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 1993Co-Authors: Bernhard ThalheimAbstract:Database design methodologies should facilitate database Modeling, effectively support database processing, and transform a conceptual schema of the database to a high-performance database schema in the Model of the corresponding DBMS. The Entity-Relationship Model is extended to theHigher-orderEntity-RelationshipModel (HERM) which can be used as a high-level, simple and comprehensive database design Model for the complete database information on the structure, operations, static and dynamic semantics. The Model has the expressive power of semantic Models and possesses the simplicity of the entity-Relationship Model. The paper shows that the Model has a well-founded semantics. Several semantical constraints are considered for this Model.
Fu Hsiang Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A balanced scorecard approach to establish a performance evaluation and Relationship Model for hot spring hotels based on a hybrid MCDM Model combining DEMATEL and ANP
International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2011Co-Authors: Fu Hsiang Chen, Gwo-hshiung TzengAbstract:Abstract The balanced scorecard approach is an effective technique for performance evaluation. For more accurately reflecting the dependence and feedback problems of each factor in real world situations, here a new Model is developed using a balanced scorecard approach for evaluating the performance of hot spring hotel. A DANP hybrid MCDM Model is adopted to solve the dependence and feedback problems, while establishing a performance evaluation and Relationship Model. An empirical case study is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid MCDM Model. Based on this study, the perspective between ‘learning and growth’, ‘enterprise's internal processes’, and ‘customer’, all aim for solid financial performance as the ultimate goal, and report a positive influence. This effective performance evaluation Model developed by applying the hybrid MCDM enables business managers to understand the appropriate actions and achieve a competitive advantage.
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A balanced scorecard approach to establish a performance evaluation and Relationship Model for hot spring hotels based on a hybrid MCDM Model combining DEMATEL and ANP
International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2011Co-Authors: Fu Hsiang Chen, Tsung Shin Hsu, Gwo-hshiung TzengAbstract:The balanced scorecard approach is an effective technique for performance evaluation. For more accurately reflecting the dependence and feedback problems of each factor in real world situations, here a new Model is developed using a balanced scorecard approach for evaluating the performance of hot spring hotel. A DANP hybrid MCDM Model is adopted to solve the dependence and feedback problems, while establishing a performance evaluation and Relationship Model. An empirical case study is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid MCDM Model. Based on this study, the perspective between 'learning and growth', 'enterprise's internal processes', and 'customer', all aim for solid financial performance as the ultimate goal, and report a positive influence. This effective performance evaluation Model developed by applying the hybrid MCDM enables business managers to understand the appropriate actions and achieve a competitive advantage. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
