We compare the benefits and costs of two alternative manufacturing network configurations inthe presence of component commonality. We evaluate the trade-off between the decreasedlogistics costs and loss of risk-pooling benefits in plant networks which consolidate allcomponent manufacturing...

Die Orientierung am Kunden und dessen individuellen Wünschen ist heutzutage von großer Bedeutung. Mit Hilfe eines Produktkonfigurationssystems ist es möglich, Produkte nach bestimmten Regeln aus bestimmten Bauteilen virtuell zu entwickeln und somit die gewünschten Leistungsmerkmale der...

Im Konfigurationsprozess individualisierbarer Produkte im Electronic Commerce nutzt der Endkunde Produktkonfiguratoren, um seine Produktvorstellungen in eine spezifische Produktbeschreibung zu überführen, indem er Produktoptionen mit Optionswerten belegt. An Hand dieser Optionsmöglichkeiten...

In many European countries efforts are undertaken to improve doctoral education. In the context of new public governance in the Higher Education sector, less state, more competition, less academic self-governance, more internal hierarchy and more influence by external stakeholders under the...

This paper investigates some crucial aspects of the recent development of industrial districts in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, where this type of spatial agglomeration of industrial firms has flourished since the period immediately after the Second World War. In particular, it is aimed at...

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitability. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital...