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Interorganisational Standards: Managing Web Services Specifications for Flexible Supply Chains

Physica-Verlag, 2005

Standards play crucial roles in many different aspects of today’s economy. They can define meanings of semantics, product interfaces, process steps, or performance levels. Interorganisational standards are specifications that define business-related semantics and processes, which are made accessible to other organisations’ information...

Computers and Productivity: How Firms Make a General Purpose Technology Work

Physica-Verlag, 2005

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth. However, ICTs also pose varied challenges to firms in order to benefit from these potentials. Highlighting the importance of innovations, firm-sponsored training, and recruitment of high-skilled workers, this...

Knowledge Integration: The Practice of Knowledge Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

Physica-Verlag, 2005

The ability to manage knowledge is relevant for millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate in high-tech environments. They strongly depend on external knowledge about customers, technologies, and competitors because, as opposed to large companies, they have limited internal knowledge resources and little power to control...

Theory and Practice of Uncertain Programming

Physica-Verlag, 2003

Real-life decisions are usually made in the state of uncertainty (randomness, fuzziness, roughness, etc.). How do we model optimization problems in uncertain environments? How do we solve these models? In order to answer these questions, this book provides a self-contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of uncertain programming theory....

COMPSTAT 2006 - Proceedings in Computational Statistics: 17th Symposium Held in Rome, Italy, 2006

Physica-Verlag, 2006

The book provides new developments in data analysis and statistical multivariate methods, computational statistics and algorithms, including new topics which are of central interest to modern statistics. The reader will find advanced methodologies and computational methods which are very helpful to analyze real phenomena characterized by large data...

Contemporary Leadership Theories: Enhancing the Understanding of the Complexity, Subjectivity and Dynamic of Leadership

Physica-Verlag, 2009

This book provides a comprehensive overview of basic theoretical approaches of today’s leadership research. These approaches conceive leadership as an interactive and complex process. They stress the significance of the individual perception for developing and forming leadership relations. Leadership is understood as...

Internal Control: A Study of Concept and Themes (Contributions to Management Science)

Physica-Verlag, 2012

The concept of internal control has developed along with audit practice. As demands have been made for greater accountability in corporate governance, the significance of internal control systems in companies has increased. Traditionally internal control has had a fairly direct relationship to financial reporting quality but wider...

Design and Operation of Automated Container Storage Systems (Contributions to Management Science)

Physica-Verlag, 2012

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 for trade and transport flows. One of the latest trends in container-storage operations is the automated Rail-Mounted-Gantry-Crane system, which...

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