Despite descriptive empirical evidence on start-up numbers and survival rates of young firms, the interaction of market entry decisions and reactions of incumbent competitors is still insufficiently understood in the entrepreneurship literature. Repeated games offer a suitable theoretical...

Bezogen auf die Territorialfläche erreichen die Verkehrswege Schiene und Wasserstraße in den neuen Bundesländern eine höhere Netzdichte als die der alten Bundesländer. Das Straßennetz ist in der ehemaligen DDR mit 1,152 km/qkm wesentlich dünner als in Westdeutschland (2,006 km/qkm). Die...

Über die Hälfte der Vermögenswerte aller Verkehrswege (Schienenverkehrswege und regionale Straßen) liegen in der Verantwortung der Kommunen. Trotz des allgemein anerkannten Grundsatzes, in den Städten den Individualverkehr zu Gunsten des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs (ÖPNV) zu...

The world economic situation has brightened in 2010. However, multiple risks threaten to undermine the prospects of a sustained recovery and a stable world economy – including sovereign debt problems in many developed regions, and fiscal austerity. These risks are further magnified by the...

In container shipping practices, containers owned by the shipping lines and leasing companies are generally regarded as homogeneous factor inputs and can substitute each other perfectly in providing the shipping service. Based on industry-wide data, this study surprisingly finds that the...

This paper formulates the 3D containership loading planning problem (3D CLPP) and also proposes a new and compact representation to efficiently solve it. The key objective of stowage planning is to minimise the number of container movements and also the ship's instability. The binary formulation...

The objective of the forthcoming research is to analyze the logistics providers (3PLs), global shipping lines´ and multimodal transport operators´ (MTOs) perception of their customers and their customer service policy in the Czech Republic. To evaluate customer orientation in the market of...