Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen eines Praktikums beim DPV DeutscherPressevertrieb GmbH verfasst. Der DPV ist eine 100 prozentige Tochterfirmades Verlagshauses Gruner+Jahr und wurde im Jahr 2006 gegründet.Ursache hierfür war die Neustrukturierung der gesamten vertrieblichen...

Qualitätsmanagement ist wieder in aller Munde. Der Spielzeugwarenhersteller Mattel war erst unlängst gezwungen, 21 Millionen in China produzierte Spielzeuge zurückzurufen. Die Gründe lagen beispielsweise in unzulässig hohem Bleigehalt in den Farben und in der Verschluckungsgefahr von...

Die Qualität von Produkten und Dienstleistungen steht seit einiger Zeit imMittelpunkt entsprechender Verbesserungsbemühungen, woraus sich entsprechendeKonzepte für das Qualitätsmanagement ebenso wie für das Qualitätscontrollingentwickelt haben. Dabei ist Qualität nun wahrlich keine neue...

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

The balanced scorecard is one of the most successful, endurable management concepts in recent years. The balanced scorecard is a performance measurement tool developed in 1992 by Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan and management consultant David P. Norton. Kaplan and Norton's...

This paper improves upon the existing literature surrounding the production order quantity inventory model in which unit cost and daily production are assumed to be constant. By including economies of scale into the model, we examine its impact on production order quantity and total cost. The...

This study is an exploration of the dynamics of the present Romanian SME’ landscape. I offer first an overview of the characteristics of Romanian entrepreneurship and of the general impact of the recent crisis on the Romanian SME. I outline further the main constraints faced by the SME in the...

In this work we analyse to what degree the efficiency of a publicly owned non-monopolistic enterprise improves as a result of the introduction of strategic organizational reforms consisting of adopting "private-firm-like" management practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e....

Traditionally in India the Government owned enterprises has been cursed by people and scholars equally. The notional drivers of change and progress, these giants have been criticized over the years as grossly inefficient, over staffed, bureaucratic and killingly slow in decision making. Though...

This paper uses an ordered probit model on a sample of 427 students enrolled in operations management; a required course in the curriculum of many business colleges. Analysis on the estimated mode l and further study into the marginal impact of each explanatory variable displays the expected...