Matching uncertain demand with capacities is notoriously hard. Operationsmanagers can use mix-flexible resources to shift excess demands to unused capacities.To find the optimal configuration of a mix-flexible production network, aflexibility design problem (FDP) is solved. Existing literature...

Former generation capacity expansion models were formulated as optimization problems. Theseincluded a reliability criterion and hence guaranteed security of supply. The situation is differentin restructured markets where investments need to be incentivised by the margin resulting fromelectricity...

We consider capacity management with a long-term strategic choice, such as the number of production lines to install before demand is known, and short-time tactical decisions relating to production, inventory and subcontracting (recourse actions made after demand is known).[...]

The advanced in-house personnel training has been the dominated formof the human resources development in Japanese firms. The strategic strength ofthe advanced personnel training depends on the consistency with the skill requirements,which an actual production management demands. On the other...

We analyze the economic effects of a developer’s connectedness in the electronic gameindustry. Knowledge spillovers between developers should be of special relevance in this knowledgebasedindustry. We calculate measures for a developer’s connectedness to other developers atmultiple points in...

This paper presents an industry equilibrium model of vertical integration under contractualimperfections with speci…c input suppliers and external investors. I assume that vertical inte-gration economizes on the needs for contracts with speci…c input suppliers at the cost of higher…xed costs....

Market share objectives are prominent in many industries, especially where man-agers pay much attention to league table rankings. This paper explores the strategicrationale for giving managers incentives based on market share in an oligopoly com-peting in strategic substitutes. Moreover, the...

I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s andwomen’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas(66 per cent of the...

[...]In this paper, I analyze the performance of theregion’s industries over the recent economic decline andrecovery. In the next section, I present the taxonomy ofindustries employed here. That taxonomy, adopted frominternational trade theory, displaces economic base theory,which sorts...

[...]This paper analyzes the industrial restructuringprocess in the New York metropolitan area in the first halfof the 1990s.1 It shows that the restructuring was accompaniedby a decline in the labor force, particularly in NewYork, where the decline persisted through the first half ofthe 1990s....