Der Beitrag liefert einen internationalen Vergleich zum Management der Hersteller-Zuliefer-Beziehungen in der Automobilindustrie in Japan, Europa und den USA und analysiert Komponentenstrategien, insbesondere auch für den bisher vernachlässigten Bereich der internen Zulieferer.

Mit ihren vier Perspektiven - finanzielle Perspektive, Kundenperspektive, interne Prozeßperspektive sowie Lern- und Entwicklungsperspektive - informiert die Balanced Scorecard in einem ausgewogenen Bild über die aktuelle Zielerreichung und die zukünftigen Erfolgsmöglichkeiten eines...

Although primarily focusing on the internal resource endowment of the firm, RBV has the potential to address the firm’s embeddedness in the business environment as well. At present, RBV research lacks a sound understanding of the development of competitive advantages in industries. A change...

Outsourcing is an organizational measure that changes the resource dependencies of a company. In this paper, a framework is developed from the perspective of the resource dependence approach to explain strategic outsourcing in the German engine building industry. On the basis of the NIFA panel,...

The paper at hand illustrates the history and the current state of the media economics tradition in German-speaking countries. After describing early, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in media economics the author will discuss boundaries of the market provision of media goods (“market...

We propose a model for the quantification of business disruption risk in a global supply chain network. To calculate the loss distribution induced by supply chain disruptions for a focal firm, we apply a bottom-up modeling approach. On the firm level, we model production disruptions of various...

We consider the problem of a newsvendor that is served by multiple suppliers, where any given supplier is defined to be either perfectly reliable or unreliable. By perfectly reliable we mean a supplier that delivers an amount identically equal to the amount desired, as is the case in the most...

Unexpected events, such as accidents or track damages, can have a significant impact on the railway system so that trains need to be canceled and delayed. In case of a disruption it is important that dispatchers quickly present a good solution in order to minimize the nuisance for the...

A disruption management problem for commercial airlines has been presented by Amadeus for the ROADEF 2009 Challenge, an international competition organised by the French Operational Research and Decision Support Society (ROADEF). This paper presents this industrial large scale optimisation...