Author: Philipp Caspar Koch
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: management, asset, systems, distribution, optimizing
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 3834911070
ISBN-13: 9783834911070

The asset management industry in Germany has been increasingly facing the challenge to use measures to also optimize its distributions systems as means for securing competitive advantage. Therefore, this book falls back on new institutional economics approaches of management science to outline with a model-shaping intent the way in which a deliberate choice and design of varying institutional arrangements operates as a device for optimizing net inflows from private investors.

Author: Ihsan Onur Yilmaz
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: circuit, board, assembly, printed, strategies, evaluation, setup, development
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 383491200X
ISBN-13: 9783834912008

The last decade has seen a rapid extension of electronic control devices for various types of technical products. In modern electronics manufacturing, highly automated assembly systems are used to mount the electronic components onto the printed circuit boards (PCBs). Maintaining high production flexibility in order to meet the desired product variety and, at the same time, achieving high utilization rates of the capital-intensive production equipment can only be achieved by applying highly sophisticated planning and control strategies for the operation of modern placement machines.

Author: Mark Huerlimann
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: complexity, world, real, dealing
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 3834914932
ISBN-13: 9783834914934

The increasing complexity of our environment, the globalization of diverse business processes and their intercultural embedment create challenges, higher risks and hence interdependency between a growing number of participants. This is undoubtedly reflected in the current financial crisis and its spill-over into the global economic downturn. This business and political environment leads to complex decision-making and, therefore, a need for powerful tools to find sustainable solutions. The field of system dynamics has introduced models that imitate complex decision environments. The reality, ho

Author: Florian Zainhofer
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: provision, switzerland, old, occupational, cycle, investing, life
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $88.50
ISBN-10: 3834910872
ISBN-13: 9783834910875

Swiss economists have proposed to individualize the funded second pillar of the Swiss retirement provision system (BVG) by granting empolyees flexibility with respect to the contribution rate and risky asset share in their accounts. Opponents have stressed that such a reform would transfer the investment risk from pesion to financially illiterate employees and thus imply a welfare loss.

Author: Frithjof Pils
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: performance, relatedness, diversification
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $64.55
ISBN-10: 3834914045
ISBN-13: 9783834914040

Diversification strategy determines both the scope of a firm’s activities and the logic of portfolio composition. It is a cornerstone of corporate strategy, and, according to prevailing theory, it is of paramount relevance for performance. Frithjof Pils presents an overview of the empirical research on the linkage between diversification strategy and performance. The author uses multiple methods of quantitative meta-analysis and examines the nature of the relationships between diversification strategies and accounting-based, market-based, and growth-based performance. Subsequently, he ap

Author: Alexis Papathanassis (Ed.)
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: growth, sector, cruise
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $74.55
ISBN-10: 3834919446
ISBN-13: 9783834919441

Despite representing a fairly small fraction of global tourism activity, the cruise sector has been experiencing a steady growth rate over the last years. The 1st International Cruise Conference (ICC) and its proceedings documented here face the changes which accompany this process of growth. The corresponding refereed papers are organized under the following themes: New trends and innovations, human resource management, information technology and standardization. The underlying motivation behind this collection of works is to bridge the gap between cruise theory and practice, by providing a &

Author: Christian Willi Scheiner
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: behaviour, enterpreneurial, determinants, fundamental
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $74.45
ISBN-10: 3834915262
ISBN-13: 9783834915269

In recent years the perspective on entrepreneurship research moved from the question "what is an entrepreneur" to the question "what influences people to develop entrepreneurial behavior" respectively "what are the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior". Christian Willi Scheiner examines selected fundamental determinants of entrepreneurial behavior. For the analysis it was essential to study influencing and determining factors before the decision is made to found a business. Therefore, not entrepreneurs but students were chosen as study samples.