This book is the cuhnination of many years' research inspired by the pioneering and seminal works of Sah and Stiglitz. We gratefully acknowledge the influence of these two authors, whose ideas and contributions have brought us together on this collabo ration, despite our divergent scientific backgrounds (while Catalani is interested in quantitative methods, Clerico is a non-quantitative economist) . We thank the Editor of the Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali for permission to use slightly modified versions of papers published in that Review (they are the content of...
This book is the cuhnination of many years' research inspired by the pioneering and seminal works of Sah and Stiglitz. We gratefully acknowledge the i...
A comprehensive perspective on the German Mittelstand is provided. The authors do not only consider internal management aspects of these companies but also their societal environment. Therefore, four of the nine chapters in the first part of the book are related to the environment of the German Mittelstand while five chapters compiled in the second part focus on different management aspects of Mittelstand companies. Among the topics addressed are organization, marketing management, supply chain and innovation management, and financial management in the Mittelstand. The authors take diverse...
A comprehensive perspective on the German Mittelstand is provided. The authors do not only consider internal management aspects of these companies but...
It is dealt with two main decision problems which arise when flow-line production systems are installed and operated. The assembly line balancing problem consists of partitioning the work, necessary to assemble the product(s), among different stations of an assembly line. If several models of a product are jointly processed on a line, this medium-term problem is connected with the short-term problem of determining an operating sequence of the models. In Part I balancing and sequencing problems are discussed, classified, and arranged within a hierarchical planning system. In the second edition...
It is dealt with two main decision problems which arise when flow-line production systems are installed and operated. The assembly line balancing prob...
This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg's work on organizational configurations. As a matter of fact, it attempts to supplement and update" "Mintzberg's organizational taxonomy, taking into account changes in the structure and work organization of business firms. The book is written for all people whose work is related to organizations and who are interested in the...
This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mec...
This book addresses the nexus of issues exploring governance structures and mechanisms in public service organizations, thus contributing to the development of disciplines that focus on public management. It goes beyond the state of the art by addressing a number of specific issues in a more systematic fashion. The book's interdisciplinary focus is a particularly valuable asset, as its topic is situated at the crossroads of a number of fields, including public management, business administration, corporate governance, policy studies, political science, sociology, and third sector studies, all...
This book addresses the nexus of issues exploring governance structures and mechanisms in public service organizations, thus contributing to the devel...
Managers are increasingly concerned with the typical methods available for organizational performance measurement and control. Research into performance measurement, within the field of innovation management, has been variously approached through frameworks for performance measurement in general (for example, the Balanced Scorecard by Norton and Kaplan), R&D performance management, and surveys on in-use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It is striking, however, that
almost no research has focused explicitly on the performance measurement of research activities, or indeed tried to...
Managers are increasingly concerned with the typical methods available for organizational performance measurement and control. Research into perfor...
This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110,000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates. Its results are the answer to the central question posed in the objectives: What value do the embedded options and guarantees considered have? This question is answered both absolutely and relative to the current policy reserves, from the perspective of the insurer, the policyholder and the...
This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perfor...
Mitigating climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humankind. In industrialized countries, the residential housing sector produces roughly one-fourth of the greenhouse gas emissions. One solution to reduce these emissions is the availability of building codes that require high levels of energy efficiency. Given the current scientific knowledge, more research is needed to gain a proper systemic understanding of the underlying socio-economic and technical system. Such an understanding is crucial for developing high energy-efficiency standards because this system develops...
Mitigating climate change is one of the most profound challenges facing humankind. In industrialized countries, the residential housing sector produce...
This book gives recommendations on which interactive decision aids to offer in webstores. Interactive decision aids are tools that help online shoppers to compare and evaluate product information. Consumers can, for instance, exclude products that do not meet certain criteria, they can highlight certain information or they can assign ratings of different kinds. Interactive decision aids are important, because finding the preferred product in a short amount of time increases both the customers satisfaction and, in turn, the sales volume.This book includes a detailed description of decision...
This book gives recommendations on which interactive decision aids to offer in webstores. Interactive decision aids are tools that help online shop...
The storage yard is the operational and geographical centre of most seaport container terminals. Therefore, it is of particular importance for the whole terminal system and plays a major role fortrade and transport flows. One of the latest trends in container-storage operations is the automated Rail-Mounted-Gantry-Crane system, which offers dense stacking, andoffers low labour costs.This bookinvestigates whetherthe operational performance of container terminals is influenced by the design of these storage systems and to what extent the performance is affected by the terminal's framework...
The storage yard is the operational and geographical centre of most seaport container terminals. Therefore, it is of particular importance for the who...
