Keynotes -- Best Paper -- Searching for Value: Creating Value -- Value Chain Models: Decision-Making -- Value Chain Models: Complexity -- Value Chain Models: Lean Value Chains -- Value Chain Models: Supply and Value Chains -- Real World Implementations

Transportation management in today’s consumer goods industry can be characterized by a high proportion of outsourced transportation services. Due to rising freight costs consumer goods manufacturers are seeking opportunities to increase the efficiency of their transportation network. This book...

This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg’s work on organizational...

Performance Management -- State-of-the-art in Performance Management -- Performance Management - Analysis Approach -- Survey Findings -- Towards a Systematic Performance Management Approach for Industrial Research in the ICT Industry

This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110,000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates....