Chapter 1: A Two-Stage Stochastic Optimisation Model for Urban Same-Day Delivery with Micro-hubs -- Chapter 2: Computational Linear Bilevel Optimization -- Chapter 3: Faster Algorithms for Steiner Tree and Related Problems: From Theory to Practice -- Chapter 4: Prescriptive Analytics for...

Purpose – Over the past few years, developments in business analytics have provided strategic planners with promising instruments for dealing with turbulent environments. This study aims to reveal whether or not the application of business analytics in strategic planning contributes to better...

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

Die Nutzung von sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook ist auf dem Vormarsch. Aber kann Facebook für Unternehmen ein entscheidendes Marketing- und Networking-Tool sein, das den Unternehmenserfolg unterstützt? Unser Auswertungen von 1.971 Firmen zeigen, dass die Aktivität auf Facebook durch den...