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Concise introduction to global supply chain management
Kotabe, Masaaki - 2024
clear insights into the various issues involved in the global supply chain. Covering materials procurement, sourcing, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512182
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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value
Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008
advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …
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Optimal monetary policy under uncertainty
Froyen, Richard T. - 2007
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book provides a thorough survey of the literature that has resulted from this renewed interest. The authors ground recent contributions on the 'science of monetary policy' in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420009
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Reforming transport pricing in the European Union : a modelling approach
Borger, Bruno de (contributor); Proost, Stef (contributor) - 2001
This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851849
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Cost-benefit analysis and evolutionary computing : optimal scheduling of interactive road projects
Taplin, John H. E. (ed.); Qiu, Min (ed.);  … - 2005
This book systematically addresses the issue of interdependence between road projects in a network, when prioritising and scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents substantial applications for both rural and urban projects and to the optimization of maintenance. The authors...
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Financial risk measurement and management
Diebold, Francis X. - 2012
: Theory and Practice 1, Amsterdam, Holland, New York, NY and Oxford, UK: North-Holland Publishing Company, 203-26 -- Peter K … Edition, McGraw-Hill. -- Lando, D. (2004), Credit Risk Modeling: Theory and Applications, Princeton University Press …), "The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment," American Economic Review, 48, 261-297. -- Nelson …
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The economics of outsourcing
Willcocks, Leslie P. - 2014
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1989), 'Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review', Academy of Management Review, 14 (1), January … in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120 (2), May … Street Journal, A1 -- Macneil, I.R. (1980), The New Social Contract: An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, New Haven …
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Cooperative networks : control and optimization
Grundel, Don (ed.); Murphey, Robert (ed.);  … - 2008
Cooperative networks have gained a tremendous amount of attention over the last several years because of their existence not only in biological, social and economic arenas, but because of direct applications in many more areas such as communications, robotics and military sciences. This volume...
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Economic integration, democratization and national security in East Asia : shifting paradigms in US, China and Taiwan relations
Chow, Peter C. Y. (contributor) - 2007
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Democratization in Taiwan and its impacts on the triangular relations -- pt. 3. Economic integration and security of the global supply chains -- pt. 4. US strategic and security interests in Asia -- pt. 5. Postscript.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420008
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Globalization and transport
Button, Kenneth - 2012
The field of globalization and transport has witnessed a surge in interest over the past two decades with scholars questioning the reasoning behind its growth, its impact on the environment and trade as well as its effect on the development of cities and supply chain logistics. The editors have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852280