In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management. The...

1. Introduction -- Challenges to Change Initiative: History and Application of Lean Concepts. 2. Overview and Executive Summary of Cases. 3. Competition From Low Cost Countries: Steel Fabrication Shop in Texas. 4. A New Approach To Fabrication: American Pride Manufacturing. 5. Gaining Market...

"In the current age of manufacturing revival in the US and other developed countries, companies are looking for ways to maintain or gain competitive advantage over competitors from low-cost countries. This book presents a firsthand account of actual projects in three different industries to help...

Convex Sets: Basic properties -- Convex Sets: Binary Operations -- Convex Sets: Topological Properties -- Convex Sets: Dual Description -- Convex Functions: Basic Properties -- Convex Functions: Dual Description -- Convex Problems: The Main Questions -- Optimality Conditions: Reformulations --...

Einleitung in den Bedarf von motivierenden Lehrgegenständen -- Fachdidaktische Entwicklungsforschung -- Designentwicklung -- Experiment zur Planspielerprobung -- Fazit über den Entwicklungsaufwand des haptischen Planspiels -- Aufzeigen von weiterem Forschungsbedarf.

Part I: Reviews/Overviews -- 1. Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education: An Overview -- 2. A Systematic and Updated Review of the Literature on Higher Education Marketing 2005 –2019 -- 3. Overview of Simulation in Higher Education: Methods and Applications -- 4. Managing...

Chapter 1: The Cobb-Douglas production function for an exponential model -- Chapter 2: Threshold Unit Root Tests with Smooth Transitions -- Chapter 3: Jump connectedness in the European foreign exchange market -- Chapter 4:Modeling Currency Exchange Data with Asymmetric Copula Functions --...