This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities. The contributing authors focus on the formation of institutions to eliminate the opportunity gap for marginalized populations,...

This book presents a clear and concise solution to understanding and alleviating today’s global economic challenges in the context of Keynes’ school of thought. Davidson explains the importance of the market economy, and unveils how and why global financial crises occur when the liquidity of...

Multi-stakeholder partnering has become the 'new mantra' of decision-makers in business, government and civil society. Yet our understanding of what drives success and failure in these institutions remains incomplete. The book introduces a production theory which describes how the relationship...

Preliminaries on convex analysis and vector optimization -- Conjugate duality in scalar optimization -- Conjugate vector duality via scalarization -- Conjugate duality for vector optimization problems with finite dimensional image spaces -- Wolfe and Mond-Weir duality concepts -- Duality for...

Key Factors of Economic Growth -- Commodity, Utility Density, Quality and Labor -- Consumption and the Growth of Consumption -- Organization—protection and restriction -- Production Theory- Individuals and Manufacturers -- Analyze of Economic Growth.

1. Einführung -- 1.1. Einleitung -- 1.2. Problemstellung -- 1.3. Gang der Untersuchung -- 1.4. Begriffsbestimmung und Typologie der Dienstleistungen -- 2. Strategisches Dienstleistungsmanagement -- 2.1. Grundlagen des strategischen Managements -- 2.2. Management der Informations- und...

1. Gegenstand und Ziele der Produktion.- 2. Produktions- und Kostentheorie -- 3. Produktionsplanung und -steuerung in Theorie und Praxis -- 4. Produktionsprogrammplanung -- 5. Bereitstellungsplanung -- 6. Durchführungsplanung -- 7. Produktionsorientierte Managementkonzepte.

Kundenorientierung ist eine der wichtigsten Strategien von Unternehmen. Mass Customization, Customer Relationship Management und Key Account Management zählen heute zu den Standard-Konzepten von Marketing- und Produktionsmanagern sowie Produktentwicklern. Doch welche dieser vielfältigen...

Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover.Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the...