Human resource development is a challenge in logistics, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. The development towards Web 2.0 and in touch the development to e-learning 2.0 offers a chance to educate employees on-the-job. The keywords in this context are ‘personal learning...

Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) increasingly gain in importance with respect to the supply of pharmaceutical products and frequently use multiple or exclusive rebate contracts to exercise market power. Based on a Hotelling model of horizontal and vertical product differentiation, we...

We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...