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In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations.

Cutting and packing problems such as the cutting of sheet metal and the loading of contain ers or, in a more abstract sense, capital budgeting or assembly line balancing have been treated in scientific literature of various disciplines for about fifty years.

This book documents the research I conducted on the subject of Electronic Data Inter change during my time at the Institute of Business Informatics, University of Berne, Switzerland. The fmancial support for this book came from the Hasler Foundation in Berne.

Shown is the application of up-to-date techniques for measuring efficiency, information imperfection and predictability in financial markets. Moreover, trading strategies in commodity future markets, models for the evolution of interest rates and postoptimality analysis in portfolio management are given.

th This book is devoted to the 19 Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling, held in Chania, Crete, Greece,November28-30, 1996.

Value Chain Marketing (VCM) is a promising strategy to overcome immediate customers' innovation resistance. By pursuing VCM, material suppliers enlarge their target group beyond their immediate customers and address their downstream customers as well.

This book investigates how social identity relates to financial investment behavior of the German-Turkish diaspora. Key findings include a range of social creativity behaviors, also offering an extension to social identity theory by means of re-defining relevant in-groups.

Drawing from interviews with executives, senior managers and/or auditors from renowned companies (eBay, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and many others) and theory from fields of sociology and social psychology, this title provides an understanding of how tone at the top imprints on an organization and why that imprint works.

In this book the author develops normative knowledge management guidelines which draw from a unique view on knowledge, discussed in the field of philosophy since Plato but neglected by most knowledge management authors - by applying a philosophically grounded 'social epistemology' to organizations.

This book investigates whether the operational performance of container terminals is influenced by the design of these storage systems and to what extent the performance is affected by the terminal's framework conditions, and discusses the strategies applied for container stacking and crane scheduling.

Presents an agent-based simulation model that facilitates electricity market research. This book addresses researchers, lecturers and students who are interested in applying agent-based simulation to power markets. It provides a discussion of the methodology and helpful details for model implementation.

Traditionally internal control has had a fairly direct relationship to financial reporting quality but wider approaches to internal control have expanded those boundaries much further. Also there is much to learn about internal control quality, and the way internal control quality is associated with overall corporate governance quality.

Many models in this volume can be used in solving portfolio problems, in assessing forecasts, in understanding the possible effects of shocks and disturbances.

1 Background of the Study: Ef?ciency in Cross-Cultural International Business Management Ef?cient business management is crucial in achieving corporate (national or int- national/multinational) goals such as higher value, comprehensiveness, corporate governance, etc.

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.