Supply chain collaboration creates a gain (a surplus) compared to uncoordinated or disconnected supply chain policies. In this paper we review policies to allocate the “gain” to supply chain members so that each firm’s objective becomes aligned with the supply chain’s objective. In other...

Environmental policy evaluations are a relatively recent phenomenon in Flanders. Environmental impact reports (MER) and regulatory impact analyses (RIA) are legal obligations for projects and policy measures with a potentially important impact on the environment. To obtain meaningful results...

Project management decisions are made at the strategic, the tactical and the operational level. These decision levels are unarguably interrelated. Uncertainty in project management is primarily dealt with at an operational level by detecting operational risks and deciding on how to respond to...

With this contribution the authors want to indicate why organizational crisis emerge and what aspects can contribute to their detection and prevention. They argue that crisis detection and prevention necessitates a multilayered and multidisciplinary approach. More in particular they focus on the...

With this contribution the authors want to indicate why organizational crisis emerge and what aspects can contribute to their detection and prevention. They argue that crisis detection and prevention necessitates a multilayered and multidisciplinary approach. More in particular they focus on the...

Recent empirical research has stressed the importance of economy wide factors in the assessment of default risk, for instance for bond portfolios or portfolios of bank loans. Macroeconomic risk is essentially systematic, as it is difficult to reduce through diversification. Adequate forecasts of...

This study exploits Britain~s expansion of its higher education system between 1988 and 1994 to show that the recent increase in college attaimnent growth rates has decreased college premiums for Britain's youngest workers. This is in line with the predictions from an adverse supply shock in a...

In dit artikel wordt een economische dynamiekindicator ontwikkeld op basis van de evolutie door de tijd heen van de empirische verdeling van de Balassa index. Deze index meet het geopenbaarde comparatieve voordcel dat een land heen in de productie van een bepaald goed. Het betreffende...

The scheduling of projects has gained increasing attention since the introduction of PERT and CPM. Both the scheduling literature and the software scheduling packages rely on (meta-)heuristic and exact procedures to schedule projects under various assumptions. However, there is still room for...

Creativiteit is vandaag meer dan ooit een belangrijke drijfveer van economische groei en tewerkstelling in onze kennismaatschappij. Nochtans blijken creativiteit en ondernemerschap geen voor de hand liggende combinatie. Vele ondernemers uit de design en creatieve sectoren in Vlaanderen komen...