This book offers postgraduate and early career researchers in accounting and information systems a guide to choosing, executing and reporting appropriate data analysis methods to answer their research questions. It provides readers with a basic understanding of the steps that each method...

This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing, simulating and computing skills to enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great advantage of R is that it is free, extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses the specific needs...

This book describes a variety of quantitative methods that are vital to planning and control in the operations of the industrial world, from suppliers to manufacturing plants to distribution centers and to the dealers and stores. The topics include: forecasting, measuring forecast error,...

This book is about how models can be developed to represent demand and supply on markets, where the emphasis is on demand models. Its primary focus is on models that can be used by managers to support marketing decisions. The market environment is changing rapidly and constantly. With the...

1 Introduction -- 2 Terminology and Related Literature -- 3 Methodological Aspects -- 4 Content Analysis of Literature on Value-Based Supply Chain Management -- 5 Quantifying Value Impacts of Supply chain cost and working capital -- 6 Benchmarking Companies from the Fast Moving Consumer Goods...

Editorial Introduction -- Behavioral Issues: Loyalty Measurement in Tourism -- Tourists Return Intentions -- Evaluation of the Interrailers’ Satisfaction Regarding the Tourism Services and Activities in Italy, Greece and Croatia -- Forecasting Tourism Demand for South Africa Using a Single...

Anhand von Fallstudien wird mit diesem Buch das eigenständige Erarbeiten und Anwenden von Wissen in den Bereichen Beschaffung, Produktion und Distribution und damit eine Erhöhung des individuellen Lernerfolgs ermöglicht. Neben einer Einführung in die Fallstudienmethodik bilden 10 Fallstudien...

Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre -- Theorie der Produktion — Theorie der Firma -- Variable kalkulatorische Abschreibungen — Ein Nachtrag -- Der Einfluss der steuerlichen Behandlung von Schuldzinsen auf die Vorteilhaftigkeit fremdfinanzierter Investitionen -- Strukturgleichungsmodelle in...