Modeling Reverse Logistics Network for Post-Sale Service Under International Ecosystem -- Sustainable Parallel Machine Scheduling: Trade-Off Between Tardiness And Energy Consumption -- Modeling A Coordinated Supply Chain Under Service Level Constraint With Price-Sensitive Stochastic Demand And...

This self-contained book presents the main techniques of quantitative portfolio management and associated statistical methods in a very didactic and structured way, in a minimum number of pages. The concepts of investment portfolios, self-financing portfolios and absence of arbitrage...

Anhand von Fallstudien wird mit diesem Buch das eigenständige Erarbeiten und Anwenden von Wissen in den Bereichen Beschaffung, Produktion und Distribution und damit eine Erhöhung des individuellen Lernerfolgs ermöglicht. Neben einer Einführung in die Fallstudienmethodik bilden 17 Fallstudien...

A must-have reference resource for quantitative management researchers, this dictionary contains over 100 entries covering the fundamentals of qualitative methodologies; covering both analysis and implementation

part Part I Background -- chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Elasticities – Background and concept -- chapter 3 Elasticities – Their use in pricing -- part Part II Stated preference models -- chapter 4 Conjoint analysis -- chapter 5 Discrete choice models -- chapter 6 MaxDiff models --...

Foundations and definitions -- Ethical considerations -- Operationalization and otherness -- Sampling and representation -- Soliciting opinions through survey research -- Studying responses through experimental methods -- Examining communication content in content analysis research --...

This book describes a variety of quantitative methods that are vital to planning and control in the operations of the industrial world, from suppliers to manufacturing plants to distribution centers and to the dealers and stores. The topics include: forecasting, measuring forecast error,...

The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection of tools and methodologies that can help tackle the complexities of which policies work best and why, and how they can be implemented effectively given the political...