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The aim of EUROPEAN RETAIL RESEARCH is to publish interesting manuscripts of high quality and innovativeness with a focus on retail researchers, retail lecturers, retail students and retail executives. As it has always been, retail executives are part of the target group and the knowledge transfer between retail research and retail management remains a part of the publication's concept.

Daniel Kern provides an answer on how to implement the theoretical concepts into day-to-day business of multinational corporations through the empirical validation of SCM models and in-depth casestudies. The four essays cover research on inter-firm collaboration, supply risk management, purchasing competences and research on measuring and benchmarking SCM efforts.

At first glance, the two topics - knowledge transfer and product development processes in the automotive industry - seem to have received abundant research attention and coverage over the last two decades. Can anything new, relevant, and interesting be discovered? Oppat proves that this is not only possible but that it even can be exciting. Knowledge transfer has indeed been investigated thoroughly. Nevertheless the attention has been primarily on the success factors of the transfer process. In his work, the author focuses on the front-end part, i. e. on the input to the process. In dozens of interviews and ca- ful observations Oppat determines the effects of the sender, the disseminative capabi- ties. These capabilities prove to be of importance for the receiving, the absorptive part of the transfer chain. What makes it exciting to follow this research work is the combination of these rather theoretical and abstract ideas with a truly interesting and little known aspect of the - tomobile industry. The cases do not deal with ¿normal¿ supplier ¿ OEM relations but with a much more intricate pattern of collaboration. It is the ¿outsourcing of the integral value chain¿, from the development process of a car model all the way to the manufacturing and even the distribution, which is investigated. The fun of reading and following these thoughts is enhanced by fluent writing and smart illustrations. Prof. Fritz Fahrni, PhD Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and University of St.

Foreword The content of this book is dealing with distribution systems for mutual funds in Germany. The production and distribution for these investment vehicles is usually organised along multiple structural levels: The producers of investment funds avail themselves of banks and insurance networks as distribution agents, and consequently do not have direct access to the investors. Both groups, especially in the last couple of years, have expressed strong interest in optimising the marketing of these financial services. It has to be taken into account that in Germany ¿ as well as in other countries in Continental Europe ¿ the producers of investment funds usually are part of banks or insurance groups. This translates into a very strong integration of value chains related to producers and distribution agents, resulting in a tendency of banks to sell primarily their own products to their clients. However, the economic crisis at the beginning of this decade highlights that profitability in the mutual fund market requires growth (i.e. de facto the acquisition of new clients). As alternative distributions channels, like for example direct marketing or distribution via independent financial advisors, play only a relative minor role, this growth requires the optimisation of existing and exploration of new relationships in particular with the distribution channel of banks.

The Indian market with its one billion plus population, presents lucrative and diverse opportunities for various industries. However, the intricacies that make up this m- ket are not very well known to most people, particularly those living in developed countries. India with its numerous and varied sub-cultures presents a microcosmic view of the world itself ¿ it constitutes a small, representative system that has ana- gies to a larger world in configuration and/or development. This makes the study of the Indian insurance industry especially pertinent and appealing as it goes beyond the Indian market, facilitating an understanding of the dynamics of other countries/m- kets with similar growth paths. In her book, Novi Dewan provides an insight into the history, development, current situation and the emerging challenges and opportunities of the insurance industry in India. She methodically focuses on the marketing aspects of the life and health ins- ance industry with respect to the four Ps (product, price, place, promotion). In order to substantiate her findings, Miss Dewan has conducted and presented the results of an empirical study that comprises standardized interviews with decision makers of Indian insurance companies. The book is divided into four main sections. In the first section, the author presents an understanding of the overall Indian Insurance Industry vis-à-vis other markets.

Banks are exposed to various kinds of risks; among them are credit default risks, market price risks and operational risks the most important ones. Aggregating these different risk ex- sures to a comprehensive risk position is an important, yet challenging and up to now un- solved task. Banks¿ current state of the art in risk management is still far away from achieving a fully integrated view of the risks they are exposed to. This shortfall traces back to both, to conceptual problems of constructing an appropriate risk model and to the computational b- den of calculating a loss distribution. The approach presented in this book takes credit default risk as a starting point. By integrating market risks, a general credit risk model is constructed that comprises the standard industry credit risk models as special cases. Within the framework of this general credit risk model, the effects of simplifying assumptions that are typical for standard credit risk models can be a- lyzed. Important insights gained by this analysis are that neglecting market price risks and losses given default correlated to default rates can cause a significant understatement of value at risk figures.

Entrepreneurial Internationalization or International EntrepreneurshipA Taxonomy of Born-global FirmsA Typology of Small International FirmsToward Greater International Entrepreneurship among Smaller AgribusinessesExplaining Export Performance: A Comparative Study of International New VenturesThe Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy NexusInternational Entrepreneurship: Aspects of Rapid Internationalization in SMEs

The book depicts an evolutionary theory of the globalisation of firms. A thorough historical analysis of globalisation serves to identify the basic globalisation processes "Internationalisation", "Global Network Formation" and "Evolutionary Dynamics". Firms develop respective "globalisation capabilities" in their own globalisation process in order to facilitate their evolution in the globalising social environment. A holistic theoretical framework based on evolutionary theories and systems theories provides the context for the integration of knowledge from Internationalem Management, Knowledge Management, and dynamic Organisation Theories. Globalisation is conceived as an open historical prozess in the evolution of social systeme. The identification of the underlying mechanisms allows managers to perceive these mechanisms in their influence on the evolutionary dynamics of the firms and to use these dynamics rather than to negate, neglect,or "contain" them in the firm's evolutionary process.

Dieses Buch gibt eine Einfuhrung in die Algebraische Geometrie. Ziel ist es, die grundlegenden Begriffe und Techniken der algebraischen Geometrie zusammen mit einer Reihe von Beispielen darzustellen.

Nach einer kurzen Darstellung der bisherigen grundsatzlichen Entwicklung im Bereich der Fahrzeugantriebe werden die aktuellen Herausforderungen und Treiber fur Veranderungen beschrieben. Fur die Schlusseltechnologien bei Elektrofahrzeugen, wie den Elektromotor, die Steuerung und die Batterien, werden die zum Verstandnis notwendigen technischen Aspekte vorgestellt. Es schliet sich unter Verwendung eines Kostenmodells eine Wirtschaftlichkeitsbetrachtung an. Abschlieend werden im Sinne der Konsequenzen die Implikationen auf die Automobilindustrie sowie die Strategien fur die Automobilhersteller und die Automobilzulieferer abgeleitet. Dazu gehoren mogliche Kooperationsmodelle und neue Produkttechnologien.

Das Buch untersucht anhand von Innovationen in der Arbeitsmarktpolitik die Bedeutung der Landespolitik für die Leistungsfähigkeit des deutschen Föderalismus.Die Autorin zeigt anhand von vier Fallbeispielen, dass auch die Bundesländer als Laboratorien für Policy-Innovationen fungieren und horizontale und vertikale Diffusionsprozesse einleiten. Sie übernehmen zudem Komplementärfunktionen, indem sie bundesstaatliche Politiken mit eigenen ergänzen. Schließlich erfüllen sie Kompensationsfunktionen, indem sie zentralstaatliche Defizite aufgreifen und auf dezentraler Ebene befriedigen. Bei allen Defiziten zeigt sich der deutsche Föderalismus flexibler und leistungsfähiger als meist unterstellt.

What is more, modularization, electrification of the powertrain, intelligent development methods and efforts to reduce fuel consumption are also driving innovations in chassis systems.