Recently, the global market is struggling with one of the most critical economic crisis to have ever occurred. The solution is to attack the weak chain links effectively, focusing on specific targets rather than use capitals thoughtlessly. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce and follow more...

The study gives a general overview on the tendencies of the facility management. The folowing part describes some possibilities far the integration of anFM system to the company-structure by its controlling sub-system on the domestic kmarket.

This paper proposes data envelopment analysis (DEA) as a suitable data analysis tool to overcome facility management (FM) benchmarking difficulties: FM performance benchmarking analysis is often unsophisticated, relying heavily on simple statistical representation, linking hard cost data with...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and systematic theoretical findings which are based on Porter´s Generic Chain of Values in regards to the area of supporting activities. Supporting activities were long time at the margin of interest, both social and economic. Today, they represent important...

The article deals with the problems of facility management and with the questions of coaching in the area of business activities, of management and of teaching. Facility Management is the method of perfect harmonisation of workers, of working environment and of processes of organisations. This...

Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) is a common solution for the maintenance of large complex facilities under tight economic conditions. Effective implementation of CBM requires the development of performance indicators for building components and systems. The objectives of the proposed...

A model for scheduling baggage-handling facilities in congested airports is presented. The model assigns the baggage of departing flights to available piers in the baggage-handling facility. It adopts an activity selection algorithm that is generally used to assign limited infrastructure...

We introduce a multi-attribute combinatorial auction-based mechanism, called contract clause mechanism (CCM), as a mean to innovate procurement design related to outsourcing of facility management activities. The CCM allows a procurer and sellers to dynamically and simultaneously bargain the...

Despite much ado about the effectiveness of ‘product’ diversification, there is very limited knowledge about the impact of ‘service’ diversification on firm performance. By taking a resource-based perspective, this study explores the service diversificationperformance relationship....