Business schools face significant challenges in terms of faculty recruitment, retention and development, with datasuggesting that there are worrying shortfalls in terms of numbers of PhD students graduating and taking up facultypositions in UK business schools (Francis, 2005). Add to this...

It is all very well exhorting UK business to be more innovative, more competitive andto close the productivity gap with economic rivals such as the US. The problem is,approximately 40 per cent of companies in the private sector are owned by non-UKbased companies. In these cases the parent...

Research points to a productivity gap between the UK and some of its majorcompetitors such as France, Germany and the US. To close this gap, it is widelyaccepted that the UK must move towards competing on value and innovation ratherthan on low costs. So how can the UK boost innovation? How can...

The paper presents a linear model of product quality in scientific competition.The only outputs of research are published papers; the onlyinputs are labor and papers by other researchers, which are cited whenused. Researchers compete for status, measured as their rank in a citationscount. If...

This paper introduces a bi-objective winner-determination problem and presents a multiobjectivegenetic algorithm to solve it. The problem examined arises in the procurement of transportation contractsvia combinatorial auctions. It is modeled as an extension to the set-covering problem and...

Kunden fordern eine hohe Qualität bei Produkten und Dienstleistungen. Die Wahrnehmungder Qualität birgt besonders in Dienstleistungsprozessen eine Herausforderung an die Leistungserstellung.Unternehmen konzentrieren sich deshalb verstärkt auf ihre Kernkompetenzenund versuchen durch...

We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, orcapacity, of the incumbent firm rather than imposing a “Minimum Quality Standard” in order tohelp the entrant to provide high quality. As a by-product, our analysis makes a contribution to...