Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

Völklingen muss sich neue Ziele setzen, und zwar solche, die Wettbewerbsvorteile bringen. Dies gilt sowohl für den gewerblichen wie privaten Bereich. Dazu sollte zunächst eine Trendanalyse erfolgen.

Der Zweite Statusbericht zum Stadtumbau Ost stellt die Ergebnisse einer Befragung der am Stadtumbau Ost beteiligten Kommunen vor und zieht nach den ersten fünf Jahren Programmlaufzeit Bilanz über den derzeit erreichten Stand der Programmumsetzung. So sind erste positive Effekte des Stadtumbaus...

Im ersten Statusbericht

The ubiquitous drive towards a more sustainable future has resulted in major changes in the planning anddesign of urban environments. Government strategies on sustainable development, published in 1999and 2005, are thought to be driving the development of new legislations that are aimed at...

Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...

Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...

In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...