Bücher der Reihe Contributions to Management Science

Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book.

The publication contains a selection of the best double-blind reviewed papers presented, discussed and revised by participants of the 1st International Conference on Value Chain Management in Austria, Steyr, May 2011.

Transportation management in today's consumer goods industry can be characterized by a high proportion of outsourced transportation services.

Stochastic knowledge is generated from past request information by a new forecasting approach and is used in the pro-active approach to guide vehicles to request-likely areas before real requests arrive there.

This book presents the comparative evaluation of international and industrial factors affecting the financial condition of enterprises. The aim of the empirical study is to determine such factors - national or industrial ones - that have a greater impact on the corporate performance in the selected European Union countries.

The theory of networks aims at developing theoretical views on the design and management of alliances, franchise chains, licensing, joint ventures, cooperatives, and venture capital relations.

It is dealt with two main decision problems which arise when flow-line production systems are installed and operated. 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.

This penetrating analysis of a much-overlooked topic in the international literature presents the legal foundations, functional remit, and governance responsibilities of the bank foundations that play such a key role in the Italian not-for-profit sector.

Flexible manufacturing systems are complex production systems with considerable high investment costs. Afterwards possible tools for the design process are described, as there are: mathematical programming, queueing networks, computer simulation, perturbation analysis, petri nets, group technology, and knowledge based systems.

This book explores methods for measuring trust and its role as a driver of organizational performance, and reveals the key role of management accountants in facilitating the flow of trust between CEOs and line managers.

This book studies 300 firms across various industries, providing readers with a comprehensive view of how firms develop sustainable competitive advantages by establishing business partnerships.

This book examines food quality, product conformance, reliability and safety, starting with wheat and ending with its value chain transformation into bread. Shows how to apply Kaizen with classic quality improvement methods to strengthen food safety systems.

The publication contains a selection of the best double-blind reviewed papers presented, discussed and revised by participants of the 1st International Conference on Value Chain Management in Austria, Steyr, May 2011.

Capitalisation weights for Figure 1 FT-SE Eurotrack 100 Index Norway mark Germany Italy Switzerland France Netherlands Another recently introduced European index is the Eurotop 100 index denominated in EeUs, this index contains twenty two UK companies which represent 27% by value of this index.

This book addresses the main challenges affecting modern logistics and supply chains and is organized according to five main themes: supply chain strategy and management, information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and related business models, vertical and horizontal collaboration, intelligent hubs (e.g.

Uniform Across-the-Board Promotions (UABPs) are characterized by retailers offering a uniform discount on the entire assortment (e.g. Furthermore this book provides guidance for retail and marketing managers on how to best profit from UABPs, to increase sales and profits while balancing the risks associated with this type of promotion.

To manage an effective customer loyalty program, third party logistics service providers (3PLs) must understand the determining factors, as well as cultural background on loyalty. This book develops a model of customer loyalty, which is then validated using empirical data from nearly 800 logistics managers in Germany and the USA.

Customer integration in the early innovation phase, considered the method of choice in theory and practice, has shown unexpected side effects that may even outweigh its recognized advantages. As a result, management needs to be able to assess in advance whether the involvement of customers will add overall value to an innovation project.

Inter-Organizational Relationships

In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies' profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising.

This book examines cost-of-capital models and their application in the context of managerial finance. Besides a review of classical finance models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), other contemporary models and techniques to determine the cost-of-capital of business units and private companies are discussed.

and are presented and analysed in various fields of application, such as investment management, stock management, strategic decision making, management of production costs and the lifecycle costs of quality and non-quality products, production quality Management, etc.

Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition.

This book presents empirical evidence on the convergence of financial and management accounting in the Italian context.

This book introduces methods of robust optimization in multivariateadaptive regression splines (MARS) and Conic MARS in order to handleuncertainty and non-linearity.

This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance.

Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on different tools and skills created by scholars in the field, is evident throughout Neostrategic Management.

This book analyses the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems in improving information quality through an empirical analysis carried out in Italy.

This book focuses on topics such as the cultural specificity of Arab family businesses with regard to shaping their governance and management;