Five lessons on avoiding common mistakes in antitrust decision making are the subject of this contribution. Although many of the usual mistakes are wellknown by specialists in industrial organisation, practioners keep falling in the same trap time after time. But the mistakes become well-known...

Corporate groups are found all around the world but their scopes, goals and effects might be very divergent. In this paper, we overview the existing international literature on corporate groups, and furthermore we pay special attention to European and Belgian corporate groups, where the presence...

Recently, Business Process Management (BPM) has gained a lot of attention both from the academic world and the industrial world. The similarities between workflow management and business process management can make one wonder whether it's all old wine in new bottles. But although there are many...

OR-sets and marked null values are two ways of representing incomplete information in relational databases. Existing relational database systems do not support OR-sets, but can be easily extended to support marked null values. We show that relations with OR-sets can be transformed into relations...

A major cause of supply chain deficiencies is the bullwhip effect. This effect refers to the tendency of the variance of the replenishment orders to increase as one moves up a supply chain. Supply chain managers experience this variance amplification in both inventory levels and replenishment...

The amount of newly created information increases every year. Large-scale automation projects, the ubiquity of personal computers and the declining prices of storage are all factors that contribute to this trend. The huge amount of information has made it impossible for human analysts to gain a...