Ehud Menipaz

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | bgu · The Ira Center of Business, Industrial Engineering and Management Department

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2023/2024 Global Report: 25 years and Growing

Entrepreneurship, or the act of starting and running a new business, is a key catalyst of economic development. It is also an important driver of economic recovery: from the effects of the recent COVID-19 pandemic as well as more recent shocks, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine, with its related supply chain issues and rising energy costs....

How are exports shaped by digitalization? Scholars debate a global digital divide that impacts internationalization. The pandemic disrupted exports, so the pandemic provides opportunity to examine digitalization as a tool for recovery of exports. Analysis of 47 sampled countries shows that wealth, especially in the West, facilitated early digitaliz...

A business may adopt a strategy for sustainability and may implement its strategy in its practice. Our question is, how are strategy and practice coupled and shaped by entrepreneurs and businesses embedded in national eco-systems in the Middle East and North Africa and around the world? Businesses were randomly sampled and surveyed in 2021, and nat...

How, in a business, is intention to adopt digital technology shaped by early and recent digitalization and by embeddedness in socio-temporal contexts? A representative sample of 8,031 businesses in Spain and non-European Colombia, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco, Sudan, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates, was surveyed in 2021. Intention to adopt digita...

International Business: Theory and Practice provides a broad overview of the multidimensional aspects of international business by using examples and cases from around the world. It gives a comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis of the fundamental challenges and emerging trends of international business practices in contemporary times. This...

Regional headquarters (RHs) lead regionally serving subsidiaries responsible for organising geographically dispersed manufacturing and/or service operations in their respective regional subsidiaries (RSs), with certain levels of autonomy and decision-making authority. RHs have recently attracted greater attention, as a major investment of decentral...

This article presents a tool for assessing the probability of adopting a new technology or product before it is marketed. Specifically, the research offers managers in firms dealing with mobile electronic commerce a way of measuring perceptions of technology usage as an index for assessing the tendency to adopt a given technology. The article is ba...

A highly complicated project management system including several simultaneously realized PERT-COST type network projects, is considered. The projects are of different importance and significance; for each project its corresponding priority index is pre-given. The total budget at the project management disposal to carry out all the projects, is limi...

A PERT-COST type project with random activity duration is considered. The project comprises several essential parameters which practically define the quality of the project as a whole:•the budget assigned to the project;•the project’s due date;•the project’s reliability, i.e. the probability of meeting the project’s due date on time.To establish th...

Deciding on how and where to begin a new regional expansion is a highly important and complex task for multinational companies. The importance and complexity stems from the fact that these decisions involve relatively high uncertainty (i.e., risk) and, at the same time, require an intensive multidimensional evaluation process. Many countries, howev...

Examines the competitive position of countries in Southern Europe in attracting multinational corporations (MNCs) through direct foreign investments (DFIs). Articulates the primary factors considered by multinational corporations when setting up activities through foreign direct investments. Develops techniques that are based on the perceptions of...

This paper presents a current taxonomy of inventory systems. Tbe taxonomy is based on a systematic invocation of twelve basic assumptions. As the assumptions are relaxed, a better approximation to a realistic inventory control problem is achieved. The paper further classifies the various systems based on the method of solution used, the availabilit...

The paper develops several relationships that can help determine operational characteristics of a mobile service unit. Specifically, it presents a heuristic for the determination of a service area using service level and waiting time criteria and deal's with the decentralization of service units. These relationships may be applied in various contex...

The paper develops several relationships that can help determine operational characteristics of a mobile service unit. Specifically, it presents a heuristic for the determination of a service area using service level and waiting time criteria and deals with the dectralization of service units. These relationships may be applied in various contexts:...

This paper examines a preparedness policy of a stochastically failing system. It deals with two yet unsolved problems in the field of maintenance policies. Problem 1 analyzes a model that includes a discount factor. Problem 2 analyzes a model that includes maintenance costs that change over time. The models are solved by a conventional method and b...

Not long ago, industrial engineers moved to acquire more insight into the area of economic considerations in quality control. Contributions in this area fell into four basic categories: procedures for the economic selection of a quality level, procedures for the design of optimal sampling plans, procedures for the design of a sequence of sampling p...

A new approach to the problem of quality control is investigated. It is based on the theories and models developed for optimal maintenance policies for equipment subject to stochastic failure. Four alternative sampling/inspection procedures are examined. They are easy to implement, do not require the process operator to compute his own operating de...

The present study examines various inspection policy models, also known in reliability literature as preparedness models. These types of models deal with stochastically failing systems, in which failure is detected by inspection only. The present study deals with two yet unsolved problems in the field of maintenance preparedness models. The first i...

As part of the business globalization phenomena, executives are called upon, more frequently than before, to consider regionally-focused organizational structures, such as regional headquarters, and to determine their location. However, academic literature, as of now, has not placed much emphasis on the subject of regional headquarters and their st...

Deciding on how and where to start a new regional expansion is of great importance and complexity for multinational corporations (MNC's). The importance and complexity stems from the fact that these decisions involve relatively high uncertainty (i.e., risk) and, at the same time, it requires engaging in a multidimensional evaluation and decision ma...

This paper presents an analytic framework for organizations that operate multiple temporary or short-term housing facilities for a variety of eligible applicants. Decisions in these organizations cannot be taken solely on the basis of quantitative analyses, and various qualitative factors must also be taken into account. The suggested methodology i...