the company’s corporate real estate decision-making processes respond to uncertainty. The need for flexibility has seen … most companies opt to divest from owning to leasing real estate. However, leasing also does not ensure ultimate flexibility … flexibility. However, further investigation in all the companies is needed to evaluate the contribution of real estate to business …

resources, labour market flexibility and competitive advantage', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(3), 445 …

Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of … activities of those firms. Our results suggest that the sort of ‘low road’ labour flexibility practices encouraged by labour …, M. (2003). 'Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 27(1), 123 …

uncertainty explicitly taking into account irreversibility of the investment decision and flexibility with respect to the …

’ flexibility,especially considering market imperfections and otherobstacles associated with the transition process.In this paper we … formulate the theoretical frameworkfor flexibility analysis in order to investigate the impactof farm-specific characteristics … choosing the level of flexibility,the decision-maker determines the technology of thefirm, expressed by the cost function. The …

gain from temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. Flexitime arrangements allow mothers to spend 30 … empirical support for the importance of temporal work flexibility on mitigating adverse effects of maternal employment on the …

The work of this dissertation is concerned with the study of the effectiveness ofparadigms of production flexibility to … either improve system performance or mitigatesystem risk. A brief introduction to the concept of operational flexibility is … of operational flexibility on the field of supply chainmanagement. A flexible supply chain design is useful to mitigate …

based economy. Given the currency board arrangement and low synchronisation with the euro area, flexibility is also needed …

increasing uncertainty. Among these capabilities, authors suggest that flexibility may be a key ingredient needed to adapt to … lower levels of the firm, and thus it is difficult to determine how to build flexibility at this level. In this study, I … examined key factors related to operational flexibility, defined as the ability of subunits to change day-to-day or within a …

automotive industry, showing that manufacturing flexibility is one key indicator of superior productivity during launch. We …At the heart of any decision problem is some degree of "flexibility" in how to act. Most often, we aim to extract … greatest possible value from this inherent flexibility. The three essays compiled here are aligned with this same general aim …