One of the major challenges that a remanufacturer faces at strategic planning level today is to match its supply (returned items) with demand due to the inherited uncertainties and variations on both sides. Forecasting product returns is one of the most important tasks of this matching process....

Objectives Economic evaluations often use preference-based value sets (tariffs) for health-related quality of life to quantify health effects. For wellbeing at the end of life, issues beyond health-related quality of life may be important. Therefore, the ICECAP Supportive Care Measure...

Using 200 paired responses from managers/supervisors, and their subordinates working in three big organizations in Nigeria, this study validated the factor structure for servant leadership and combined the motivational and behavioral approaches in the servant leadership model to enhance the...

Entrepreneurs seek opportunity, are organizational innovators, and engines of economic development. Pursuit of economic self-interest may manifest "guile," or deceit. As academics, we are charged by businesses (and society) to instruct students in functional topics as well as in the rules and...

This exploratory study provides an insight into the concept of philanthropy and how it is applied in the context of wineries. Researchers in three nations interviewed winery owners or managers to obtain qualitative data; this data was categorised to identify common themes, similarities and...

This paper tests and confirms the cross-cultural equivalence of the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) in eight countries and languages: The Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Finland. A composite sample consisting of 5201 respondents from eight countries that all...

The impact of environmental motivations on the individual's decisions regarding investments in energy efficiency and the adoption of energy-saving habits are analyzed for a representative sample of Chinese inhabitants from the larger Beijing area, replicating a comparative study on Western...

Setbacks are a fact of life for individuals and collectives—and resilience is a key concept in explaining why some entities positively adapt (i.e., bounce back) or even emerge stronger (i.e., bounce beyond), while others suffer from such events, sometimes permanently. In this short note, we...

Die amtliche Statistik verwendet die Merkmale Geburtsstaat und Geburtsort aus dem Ausländerzentralregister. Die Merkmale werden im Verwaltungskontext jedoch unvollständig (Geburtsstaat) beziehungsweise unstrukturiert als Freitextangabe (Geburtsort) und ohne Plausibilitätskontrollen erhoben....

Während der Corona-Pandemie ist der Zugang zu verlässlichen Informationen besonders relevant, um Schutzmaßnahmen ergreifen zu können. Migrant*innen und Geflüchteten in Transit- und Residenzländern mangelt es häufig am Zugang zu diesen Informationen. Dies öffnet den Raum für die...