The thesis develops a coherent and comprehensive supply chain management framework for managing health care goods provided as humanitarian assistance in complex political emergencies. The objective of the research is improving the effectiveness and efficiency of logistics services which enable...

Development of a medical device is a multi-disciplinary activity. This is particularly the case for laser based instruments which encompass mechanical, optical, hardware and software sub-systems, together with the essential industrial design process. In this field, as in many others, small...

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Myresearch since 2002 has focused on the economics of education andorganizational economics. The dissertation covers papers which link thesetwo research areas. The introduction puts the papers in a more...

In India, the term ‘sick units’ refers to economically unviable firms which are kept alive ‘in the public interest’ by means of subsidies of various kinds. Since this practice is common, and large parts of the industrial sector are affected, this phenomenon is referred to as industrial...

In diesem Aufsatz wird gezeigt, dass und wie man das Koordinationsmängel-Diagnosekonzept im Sinne eines volkswirtschaftlichen Controllings zur Überprüfung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Märkten sowie der Angemessenheitwirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen und Rahmenbedingungen einsetzen kann. Nach...

Mit der Schaffung des europäischen Versicherungsbinnenmarkteswurde 1994 auch der deutsche Versicherungsmarkt liberalisiert.Damit stehen seither den Unternehmen auf diesen Märkten mit derProduktgestaltung, der Prämienkalkulation und derRisikoklassifikation neue Wettbewerbsinstrumente zur...