In an environment of intense globalization and digitalization, business organizations are increasingly faced with various challenges such as rising costs, strong competition, rapidly evolving technologies, increasingly demanding and whimsical consumers, and, in social terms, changing societal...

Um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, streben viele Organisationen eine kontinuierliche Verbesserung mithilfe eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems an. Die Zertifizierung spielt dabei zunehmend eine größere Rolle. Für den Bereich der Qualitätsmanagementsysteme besteht die Möglichkeit, sich nach der...

Small Area Estimation erlaubt die Schätzung regionaler Indikatoren anhand kleiner Stichproben. Hierfür werden Survey-Daten mehrerer Regionen in statistischen Modellen kombiniert. Aufgrund der Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft entstehen immer mehr zusätzliche Datenquellen, wie etwa Website- und...

The design of regression models that are not affected by outliers is an important task which has been subject of numerous papers within the statistics community for the last decades. Prominent examples of robust regression models are least trimmed squares (LTS), where the k largest squared...

Using cross-country data, this paper estimates the impact of the 2007 financial shock on countries' macroeconomic developments conditional on national financial regulations before the crisis. For this purpose, the financial reform index developed by Abiad et al. (A New Database of Financial...

The link between a firm and supply chain (SC) members has been recognised as one of the key issues for ensuring business success and achieving competitive advantage. Indeed, working across organisational boundaries is required to accomplish effective responses to customers' needs. Our...

In many enterprises and other types of organizations, decision making is both a crucial and a challenging task. Despite their importance, many decisions are still made based on experience and intuition rather than on evidence supported by rigorous approaches. Decisions are often made this way...

Business Process Management (BPM) represents a constant process in which employees of the BPM department, constantly analyze company’s business processes and enhance the same, improve or change them using Business Process Improvement (BPI) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR). The main...

Business process management (BPM) is an acknowledged source of corporate performance. A well-established element of the BPM toolbox by which organizations intend to tune the performance of their processes is business process standardization (BPS). So far, research on BPS has predominantly taken...

Business process management (BPM) is an important area of organizational design and an acknowledged source of corporate performance. Over the last decades, many approaches, methods, and tools have been proposed to discover, design, analyze, enact, and improve individual processes. At the same...