Essential for rail transport performance is the specific transport optimization due to a high bandwidth of traction capacities per train. Transport optimization for rail transports and especially rail operator co-operations are an interesting modelling environment due to three specific...

Supply chain management concepts largely rely on cooperation. Therefore the economic success of companieswithin supply chain cooperations depends on the ability and capacity of these companies to build up and nourishcooperation relations. This capacity with its ‘social factor inputs’ as e.g....

Capacity management modelling is a broad field with a huge number of discussion areas andcontributions. Though if applied towards service processes there are even smaller numbers ofmodels and contributions as e.g. gap and yield management models for service production. Furtheron such model...

Transport optimization for rail transports and especially rail operator co-operations are an inter-esting modeling environment due to three specific characteristics: First a simple minimum optimi-zation direction of e.g. transport distances may not be feasible due to connecting transport routes...

Akademische Ausbildung hat wie alle Bildungs- und Ausbildungsleistungen Elemente eines öffentlichenGutes, da sie im Ergebnis externe Nutzeneffekte erzeugt, die nicht nur dem einzelnen Individuum, welchesdie Ausbildung erhält, sondern einem breiteren Nutzerkreis zu Gute kommen. Zudem wird...

Die folgenden beiden Argumentations- und Entwicklungsstränge qualifizieren den Bereich der Hochschulenfür eine Betrachtung unter dem Stichwort des „New Public Management“: Einmal ist der Hochschulbereich bis dato im deutschsprachigen Raum im wesentlichen Gegenstandstaatlichen Handelns...

Modern Public Management in general and especially higher education management has undergone amajor paradigm change as new principles of “New Public Management (NPM)” have reached theinstitutions concerned. The new orientation is directed towards output measurement and documentation,quality...