Strategic alliances have gained widespread attention in the business community, but success factors for cooperation have not been studied rigorously enough. This book reviews new developments in business-oriented economics in order to establish convincing arguments for the efficiency and sustainability of collaborative ventures. It builds on the rich new literature on business process redesign and corporate renewal. Most of these new management concepts still focus on intracorporate restructuring, but have not explicitly dealt with strategic alliances or other types of Inter-institutional...

The aim of the series is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over two decades, it offers a large library of mathematics including several important classics.

The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic.

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Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der altesten undrenommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publiziert sie wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten zum fruhen Christentum und angrenzenden Themengebieten. Die Reihe ist historisch-kritisch verankert und steht neuen methodischen Ansatzen, die unser Verstandnis des Neuen Testaments befordern, gleichfalls offen gegenuber.