Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the...

This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

This book presents contributions by leading academics and practitioners from central banks to shed light on the function and impact of cash in Asian countries. It explores the impact of cash on society, the role of cash in monetary policy, and the future of cash in various monetary systems,...

This paper provides a guideline for how the entire process chain of automotive after-sales services could be researched in China. In addition, Schwartz's individual level value theory is introduced as a beneficial operationalisation approach to cultural marketing. So, values are modelled as...

Das Auto der Zukunft ist vernetzt und Teil des Internet of Things. Fahrzeughersteller, Telekommunikationsanbieter und IT-Riesen liefern sich eine Schlacht um die Hoheit im Connected Car. Dieses Buch zeigt die Potenziale von Autos mit Konnektivitätstechnologien für digitale Dienstleistungen,...

Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...

Isabel Maria Staufer untersucht, inwiefern sowohl die Markenliebe als auch die ökologische Werthaltung eines Konsumenten als Steuerungsinstrumente innerhalb eines Kaufentscheidungsprozesses bei Produktinnovationen fungieren können. Auf Grundlage einer verhaltenstheoretischen Untersuchung, die...

Grundlagen von Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) -- CE im Kontext des strategischen Managements -- Bedeutung von CE für die deutsche Automobilindustrie -- Überblick zum Stand der empirischen CE-Forschung -- Theoriegeleitete Modellentwicklung -- Methodische Aspekte von Strukturgleichungsanalysen.