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The Paradoxes of Transparency: Science and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in Europe
Wilson, Douglas Clyde - 2010
failing to sustain Europe's fish stocks, this management system also became adept at making the lives of its scientists … miserable. Now it is being confronted by the complex challenge of an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management. If this … cumbersome fisheries management system. This book lays out the results of extensive sociological research on ICES and the …
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How Individual Scholars Can Reduce the Rigor-Relevance Gap in Management Research
Wolf, Joachim; Rosenberg, Timo - In: BuR - Business Research 5 (2012) 2, pp. 178-196
This paper discusses a number of avenues management scholars could follow to reduce the existing gap between scientific … because many management studies do not fully exploit the possibilities to increase their practical relevance while maintaining … relate to specific steps in the (empirical) research process. Our discussion does not imply that all management studies …
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Vertical integration and operational flexibility
Moretto, Michele; Rossini, Gianpaolo - 2008
The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in a dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331069
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A guide to complexity theory in operations research
Schirmer, Andreas - 1995
It is a well-known fact that there exists an ever increasing number of problems for which, despite the efforts of many inventive and persistent researchers, it seems virtually impossible to find efficient algorithms. In this Situation, the theory of computational complexity may provide helpful...
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A mixed integer linear programming model applied in barge planning for Omya
Bredström, David; Haugen, Kjetil; Olstad, Asmund; … - In: Operations Research Perspectives 2 (2015), pp. 150-155
. The distribution planning is a vital part of supply chain management of Omya's production of Norwegian high quality …
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Zur Bedeutung der Modellbildung für die Entwicklung wissensbasierter Systeme
Drexl, Andreas; Pesch, Erwin; Salewski, Frank - 1994
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A good sign for multivariate risk taking
Eeckhoudt, Louis; Rey, Béatrice; Schlesinger, Harris - 2006
Decisions under risk are often multidimensional, where the preferences of the decision maker depend on several attributes. For example, an individual might be concerned about both her level of wealth and the condition of her health. Many times the signs of successive cross derivatives of a...
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State of the art overview on automatic railway timetable generation and optimization
Reisch, Julian - 2020
In railway transportation, each train needs to have a timetable that specifies which track at which time will be occupied by it. This task can be addressed by automatization techniques both in generating a timetable and in optimizing an existing one. In this paper, we give an overview on the...
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On slowdown variance as a measure of fairness
Maccio, Vincent J.; Hogg, Jenell; Down, Douglas G. - In: Operations Research Perspectives 5 (2018), pp. 133-144
When considering fairness one must ask two fundamental questions. Firstly, what does it mean to be fair? And secondly, how does one measure that fairness? Different authors have offered different notions and metrics to address these questions. We provide arguments identifying where past metrics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662736
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Incorporating an expedited rate, rework, and a multi-shipment policy into a multi-item stock refilling system
Chiu, Singa Wang; Wu, Cheng-Sian; Tseng, Chao-Tang - In: Operations Research Perspectives 6 (2019), pp. 1-12
Facing harsh competition in global marketplaces, management must construct the best possible supply chains to meet …
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