Physica imprint: 137 books
by Ulrich Ermschel, Christian Möbius, Holger Wengert
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Das Lehrbuch "Investition und Finanzierung" ist genau auf das Bachelor-Studium abgestimmt. Ausgehend von einer Einführung in das Finanzwesen und die Finanzmathematik werden die Segmente Investition und Finanzierung eingehend behandelt. Dabei wurde darauf geachtet, den Themenbereich sowohl...
Grundlagen des Bürgerlichen Rechts
Eine Einführung für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Das Lehrbuch vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse im Bürgerlichen Recht. Nach einer Einführung in das Fach Recht werden im Wesentlichen die ersten drei Bücher des BGB erläutert und abschließend einige Anmerkungen zum Zivilprozessrecht gegeben. Insgesamt enthält das Lehrbuch eine übersichtliche...
Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Capital Budgeting
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The primary contribution of this book is to integrate the important disciplines which simultaneously impact the investment appraisal process. The book presents a study that develops a new approach to investment appraisal which uses a multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) model to integrate...
Network Governance
Alliances, Cooperatives and Franchise Chains
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The current book on Nework Governance contributes to the literature by offering new perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational learning and trust in alliances, corporate governance issues in cooperatives, governance of cross-border retail networks, contract design and governance innovations in cooperatives and fanchising.
Design of Incentive Systems
Experimental Approach to Incentive and Sorting Effects
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book. The primary goals underlying the application of monetary incentive systems in companies are motivating employees to strive for superior productivity in line with the interests of employers, and hiring adequately...
International Trade and Unemployment
On the Redistribution of Trade Gains When Firms Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although trade liberalization is no Pareto improvement. In the empirical literature, there is a consensus that the international...
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active...
Managerial Discretion and Performance in China
Towards Resolving the Discretion Puzzle for Chinese Companies and Multinationals
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The theoretical and empirical literature to date has fallen short of reaching a consensus as to whether granting more managerial discretion to managers tends to enhance, not alter or diminish organizational performance (the discretion puzzle). This book aims to build a bridge between these contradictory...
by Patricia Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications? Who...
Organizational Epistemology
Understanding Knowledge in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This book presents an in-depth perspective of knowledge as a fundamental process of any organization rather than just another resource to be managed. The author presents a process-oriented theory of creating and applying knowledge directed towards both researchers and practitioners. In this book...
Strategy Deployment in Business Units
Patterns of Operations Strategy Cascading Across Global Sites in a Manufacturing Firm
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book reveals and presents the root-causes that lead to varying improvement performances across different locations of a global positioned manufacturing organization. Conducting a multiple case study analysis of manufacturing sites around the world, the author found that the quality of the strategy...