Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...

Chapter 1: Anticipating Game Changer for "Enterprise 2020" in a Digitally-Intensive World -- Chapter 2: Digital Business Models: Review & Synthesis -- Chapter 3: VISOR: A Unified Framework for Business Modelling in the Evolving Digital Space -- Chapter 4: A View Through the VISOR Lens -- Chapter...

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the economic and technical foundations for new organizational forms, relations and processes. It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace...

A nudge is a non-coercive paternalistic intervention that attempts to improve choices by manipulating the framing of a decision problem. As any paternalism, it faces the difficulty of determining the appropriate welfare criterion. We propose a welfare-theoretic foundation for nudging similar in...

This paper studies the role of governments and its link to trust. We argue that the public's trust strongly depends on governments delivering on their core tasks in a market economy. In some economies, a neglect of core tasks can be observed and there seems to be some erosion, notably in terms...

Vorwort, Einführung -- Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Nachfrage, Angebot und Marktgleichgewicht -- Elastizitäten -- Unternehmen und Märkte -- Einkommen, Produktion und Wachstum -- Inflation und Geldpolitik -- Arbeitsmarkt -- Internationaler Handel -- Marktversagen -- Eingriffe des...