This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic,...

Dieses Buch wurde 2011 mit dem ‘Péter-Horváth-Controllingpreis’ ausgezeichnet. Das Paradigma der Wertorientierung hat sich in der modernen Unternehmenssteuerung weitgehend durchgesetzt, bleibt aber oftmals auf die obersten Hierarchieebenen eines Unternehmens beschränkt. Der vom Autor...

Fragmentation of production into more and more complex supply chains is a prominent feature of globalisation. It implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis of the various types of transaction costs is also...

Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award procedure when the procurer cannot commit not to renegotiate. If cost differences are more pronounced for more complex designs, it is optimal to fix a simple design ex ante and to...