Der in diesem Working Paper vorgestellte Ansatz eines modernen Beschaffungsprozesses ist darauf ausgerichtet, die Wertgenerierung im Unternehmen zu steigern. Dem Beschaffungsmanagement kommt ein sehr hoher Stellenwert zu, dabei muss der Beschaffungsprozess professionell organisiert und...

(Einleitung)(...) Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist deshalb die Übertragung dieses Instruments auf die Entstehungsphase einer Immobilie, um die Kosten frühzeitig unter Berücksichtigung der Nutzeranforderungen zu gestalten und zu steuern. Um dabei einen engen Bezug zur praktischen Umsetzung...

In project management, the project duration can often be compressed by accelerating some of its activities at an additional expense. This is the so-called time-cost tradeoff problem which has been extensively studied in the past. However, the discrete version of the problem which is of great...

Firms raise cost-reducing alliances before competing with each other, but cannot fully internalize the shared knowledge. When spillovers are local and transit through the network of alliances, stable architectures with a moderate level of asymmetry are identified.

Services are characterised by the integration of customers while the service is produced. This integration leads to interruptions in the processing of a customer order until the customer provides the missing input. Since customer behaviour can be planned to a certain extent only challenges in...

There are estimates that up to 30% of hospital costs are due to inefficiently coordinated hospital processes. As a result many hospitals have tried to model and to reengineer their business processes. These efforts have very often been abandoned, because the normally constructed total models of...

This paper argues that the consequences of the 'fragmentation' of the European patent system are more dramatic than the mere prohibitive costs of maintaining a patent in force in many jurisdictions. First, detailed analysis of judicial systems in several European countries and four case studies...