Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Production & Operations Management

This book provides a theoretical basis for understanding the phenomenon of renegotiations in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). It analyzes the case of transport projects, and provides empirical evidence from a variety of real-world projects. What drives renegotiations? Why are some projects more likely to be renegotiated than others? What are the outcomes? How can we improve the performance of renegotiation processes? These questions form the core of discussion in this book. PPPs are a procurement model for the delivery of infrastructure and public services that have experienced...

This book argues that large corporations need to implement governance practices and processes that make them better innovators and that the challenge is to identify organizational principles and practices that provide the best chance of delivering innovative products to create a meaningful consumer experience. In this context, it is important to recognize that when we address organizational forms, we are not thinking of corporate governance in the sense of managing agency costs and ensuring regulatory compliance, but the more pressing business task of putting in place organizational...

This book tackles issues associated with inconsistency in pairwise comparisons from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Human judgments are seldom absolutely consistent, or absolutely precise, therefore problems of measuring and handling inconsistency belong among hot topics of the current research, especially in the theoretical framework of multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA). The book presents and discusses the state-of-the-art of this field including both cardinal and ordinal inconsistency, the problems of different scales for comparisons and inconsistency reduction, and...

Zielsetzung der Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft e.V. ist es, die Qualitätswissenschaft in Lehre und Forschung zu fördern und den Wissenstransfer in die industrielle Anwendung zu unterstützen. Geschehen soll dies unter anderem durch Pflege des wissenschaftlichen Erfahrungsaustauschs unter den auf diesem Gebiet tätigen Personen und Institutionen und der Verbreitung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsergebnissen sowie der Unterstützung des Wissenstransfers zwischen Forschung und Praxis. Die Jahrestagung 2021 der Gesellschaft für Qualitätswissenschaft fand gemeinsam mit der...