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Germaine H. Saad
Researcher at Widener University
Publications - 5
Citations - 2047
Germaine H. Saad is an academic researcher from Widener University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supply chain & Empirical research. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 1850 citations.
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Managing Disruption Risks in Supply Chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains, and consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995-2000 on accidents in the U. S. Chemical Industry.
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Business Process Improvement: Empirical Assessment and Extensions
Samia M. Siha,Germaine H. Saad +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that the framework proposed synthesizes and extends earlier PI tools and basic approaches used for mitigating disruptions faced in operations practice and would serve as a diagnostic tool for identification of, and recovering from root causes of problems and inefficiencies faced in business environments.
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Managing quality: critical links and a contingency model
Germaine H. Saad,Samia M. Siha +1 more
TL;DR: The contingency model developed provides a basis for advancing both theory and practice for managing quality and to help reduce the deviations between the desired and the actual outcomes of quality programs.
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Strategic performance evaluation: descriptive and prescriptive analysis
TL;DR: A practical model for performance evaluation of a public service strategic unit is developed that comprises key drivers of performance, including internal and external factors, as well as both quantitative and qualitative factors, simultaneously.
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Hierarchical Production-planning Systems: Extensions and Modifications
TL;DR: This paper extends earlier hierarchical production-planning approaches initiated by Hax and Meal and incorporates both functional and hierarchical interfaces simultaneously as encountered in practice, and assures feasibility and consistency among the decisions made at the different hierarchical levels of the firm.