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Green Business Process Management
Towards the Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of our society, have always...
Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business
Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...
International Environmental Management Benchmarks
Best Practice Experiences from America, Japan and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. It stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management...
by Jean J. du Plessis, Bernhard Großfeld, Claus Luttermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate...
Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book provides advanced theoretical and applied tools for the implementation of modern micro-econometric techniques in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the...
by Vithala R. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Conjoint analysis is probably the most significant development in marketing research in the past few decades. It can be described as a set of techniques ideally suited to studying customers’ decision-making processes and determining tradeoffs. Though this book is oriented towards methods and applications...
The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide
A Roadmap to Operational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The importance of supply chain management has increased over the last few decades. Today, entire supply chains are competing with each other instead of individual companies. As such, supply chain management has become a way for companies to set themselves apart from competing companies and their supply...
Data Analysis and Classification
Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Società Italiana di Statistica
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
The volume provides results from the latest methodological developments in data analysis and classification and highlights new emerging subjects within the field. It contains articles about statistical models, classification, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, multivariate analysis, latent...
Gute Hochschullehre: Eine evidenzbasierte Orientierungshilfe
Wie man Vorlesungen, Seminare und Projekte effektiv gestaltet
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Wie man Vorlesungen, Seminare und Projekte effektiv gestaltet
Hochschuldidaktik ist ein schwammiges Forschungsfeld ohne klare Befunde? Bei fachlich kompetenten Dozierenden ist die Lehrmethode unwichtig? Hochschulen brauchen eine völlig neue Lehrkultur? – Nichts davon ist wahr. Unbemerkt...
Real Estate Valuation Theory
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This monograph critically reviews and updates real estate valuation theory, which is based on neoclassical economics, in light of developments in heterodox economic theory. Building on a comprehensive historical account of the evolution of value theory, the book uses new institutional economics theory...
Growth and International Trade
An Introduction to the Overlapping Generations Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This textbook guides the reader towards various aspects of growth and international trade in a Diamond-type overlapping generations framework. Using the same model type throughout the book, timely topics such as growth with bubbles, debt reduction in rich countries and policies to mitigate climate...
by Heinrich von Stackelberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Heinrich von Stackelberg's book, "Grundlagen einer reinen Kostentheorie", published in 1932 was at the forefront of a growing conceptual revolution in the theory of the firm, a theory which appears more relevant than ever in today’s economic climate. In this work, Stackelberg masterfully...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
One might expect that after their identification in the 19th century, all aspects of Giffen goods would have been studied by now. This appears not to be the case. This book contains the latest insights into the theory of Giffen goods. In the past, surprisingly few goods could be categorized as “Giffen.”...
Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap
Theory and Empirical Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book investigates models of spatial and dynamic monopsony and their application to the persistent empirical regularity of the gender pay gap.