The China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) is a collection of different ongoing projects including transportation, infrastructure, the Gwadar seaport, oil pipeline, and internet connection zone projects. The Chinese government has adopted a development strategy for infrastructure growth and...

In unserer Umfrage zum aktuellen Stand der strategischen Planung in Geschäftsbanken des deutschsprachigen Raumes hat sich gezeigt, daß inzwischen alle großen Kreditinstitute ein entsprechendes Planungssystem installiert haben. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Österreich begann man...

In einer Fortgeschrittenen-Übung zur Unternehmensgesamtplanung wurden von Studenten der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Methoden und Verfahren zur strategischen Planung implementiert und präsentiert. Während eine erste Gruppe die Planungssprache MICRO-FCS einsetzte, implementierte eine...

Das Streben nach Flexibilität hat in innovativen Beschaffungsentscheidungen den Rang eines eigenständigen Entscheidungsziels: Die Nachfrager wollen sich die Möglichkeit der Entschlußrevision offenhalten. Die Anbieter entsprechen diesem Streben nach Handlungsautonomie ihres Partners durch das...

Purpose: Recently natural disasters frequently occur all over the world. However, the stakeholder management of post-disaster reconstruction is often a neglected field because of its particularity. This study investigates a model of stakeholder management for managers in post-disaster...

Purpose: This research aims to demonstrate how portfolio management influences the decision-making process of the best projects for the company. Design/methodology/approach: In order to reach this goal, the single case study method was used. Initially, it was made a bibliometric with "portfolio...

This paper considers two problem classes that are important to researchers as well as practitioners, namely packing and project scheduling problems. First, the two problem categories are described. This includes a classification of packing problems as well as of project scheduling concepts....

A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment type project...

Purpose: The time-cost trade-off problem addressed by CPM-based analytical approaches, assume unlimited resources and the existence of a continuous time-cost function. However, given the discrete nature of most resources, the activities can often be crashed only stepwise. Activity crashing for...

A plant construction project always involves lots of activities. Precise information about the activities duration is unfortunately unavailable due to the uncertain resources capacity. The fuzzy program evaluation and review technique (PERT) has been widely applied to solve the fuzzy project...