Ein Lieferkettengesetz soll die Pflichten von Unternehmen bei der Überwachung der sozialen und ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit in ihrer Lieferkette regeln. Der vorliegende Entwurf ist aber problematisch: Es fehlt den Unternehmen die erforderliche Transparenz ihrer Lieferketten und der Durchgriff...

Als ein Teilbereich der Künstlichen Intelligenz stellt Machine Learning (ML) eine Schüsseltechnologie des 21. Jahrhunderts dar. Unter Nutzung der mathematisch-statistischen Verfahren sind technische Systeme realisierbar, die anhand von Daten eigenständig empirische Zusammenhänge erkennen und...

Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...

Today's demand patterns constantly claim for greener products from more sustainable supply chains. Handling these customer needs puts a constant pressure on the players: Ecological and social issues arise additionally to challenges like technology management and efficiency enhancement....

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for logistics and supply chains. They present business models and investment options for enhanced strategic decision making as well as recent approaches for...

The construction industry claims a vast quantity of natural resources and is responsible for more than half of the waste generated in Germany. R-concrete contains recycled aggregates and is a resource efficient alternative to primary concrete. A central stakeholder whose preferences may...

Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This approach takes possible complementarities between IT...