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Management science (also known as operational, or operations, research) is an interdisciplinary field that assists decision making through the design and provision of quantitative and qualitative models of problematic situations. More than any other war before it, World War II challenged the opposing armies with problems concerning logistics, …
Many definitions of accounting exist, although a popular one is that formulated by the American Accounting Association: “the process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgments and decisions by users of the information.” It is important to note, however, that all the information so …
The word manufacturing has its roots in three ancient Latin words: manu, meaning by hand; facere, meaning to make; and faber, or maker. Recent definitions have expanded this definition into “to make from raw materials by hand or machinery.” The Department of Trade and Industry of the British …
A manufacturing strategy can be defined as the pattern of organizational decisions that determine the ability of a manufacturing firm to deliver its product and service requirements to customers. Successful implementation of manufacturing strategies requires the coordination of physical assets, production capabilities, and relationships as manufacturing firms move …
The yield of a manufacturing process or of any production line is of paramount importance to manufacturers as it is directly related to corporate profitability. For many manufacturing companies, the only alternative to remain competitive is to improve yield. Manufacturing yield is generally considered to be a measure …
Maquiladoras are plants devoted to producing or assembling intermediate goods required by other companies in their productive processes, so they are part of productive chains for activities of international subcontracting. They operate under a special tax system that allows them to import inputs and components free of tariffs …
Marathon Oil (Marathon Oil Corp.) is one of the largest integrated oil companies in the United States. It is engaged in exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. It was incorporated in 1965, and now employs about 30,000 people (as of January 1, 2008). The company …
A market audit examines a company from a marketing perspective, just as a financial audit, tax audit, or IT audit examines a company from each of their own perspectives. However, while those audits focus principally on internal data, a market audit gathers a great deal of information from …
A market-basket currency is a form of money (medium of exchange) whose value is determined as a weighted average of the value of other currencies. The term is often confused with the term currency basket, which is actually the group of selected currencies. Typically, the currency basket is …
Market development implies seeking out new buyer groups as potential customers for a firm’s existing products and services. These customers may be currently served by competitors or may not currently consume such offerings. For example, a firm that successfully makes and sells coffee to the retail market in …
As with much of southern Africa, the earliest inhabitants of what is now the country of Zimbabwe were the nomadic San peoples, who led a life in search of game and edible vegetation about 20,000 years ago. Later the Khoi-Khoi people, pastoralists with herds, entered the region. The …
On August 9, 378 c.e., the Eastern Roman army under the command of Emperor Valens attacked a Gothic army (made up of Visigoths and Ostrogoths) that had camped near the town of Adrianople (also called Hadrianoplis) and was routed. The battle is often considered the beginning of the …
Virgil’s Aeneid is arguably the most influential and celebrated work of Latin literature. Written in the epic meter, dactylic hexameter, the Aeneid follows the journey of Aeneas, son of Venus, after the fall of Troy. According to an ancient mythical tradition, Aeneas fled the burning city and landed …
The son of a wealthy family in sixth century b.c.e. Attica, Aeschylus was a tragedian at a time when Greek theater was still developing from its beginnings as a form of elaborate dance. In contrast to the first dramas, performed in honor of Dionysus and under the influence …
A slave in ancient Greece in the sixth century b.c.e., Aesop was the creator or popularizer of the genre of fables that bear his name. Little about him is known: More than half a dozen places have claimed him as a native son, and although Herodotus records that …
The emergence of African city-states began in North Africa with ancient Egypt and then later the formation of the Carthaginian empire. These civilizations are both heavily documented by written accounts, as are the other North African kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania. However, apart from surviving secondhand accounts from …
Little contemporary written material has survived about religious traditions in ancient Africa, except in inscriptions by the ancient Egyptians about their beliefs and in accounts by Herodotus when he described the religions and folklore of North Africa. The Egyptian beliefs involved gods and the monarchs as descendants of …
King Ahab and Queen Jezebel were the royal couple of Israel most vilified by later biblical writers, yet it is Ahab who made Israel and its army one of the strongest on the stage of Near Eastern nations and powers in the early ninth century b.c.e. He fortified …
Akhenaten, the pharaoh of the eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, was the second son of Amenhotep III (r. 1391–54 b.c.e.) and Tiy (fl. 1385 b.c.e.). His reign ushered a revolutionary period in ancient Egyptian history. Nefertiti was his beautiful and powerful queen. He was not the favored child of …
Mesopotamia’s first-known empire, founded at the city of Akkad, prospered from the end of the 24th century b.c.e. to the beginning of the 22nd century b.c.e. Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 b.c.e.) established his empire at Akkad; its exact location is unknown but perhaps near modern Baghdad. His standing …
