A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such studies are Bartolomucci (2007), Beery and Kaufer (2015), and Koolhaas et al. (2017). A recent and...

Drawing on the premise that the integration of economies revises people's social space and their comparators, we quantify social stress by aggregate relative deprivation, ARD; we calculate the effect of monetary mergers on ARD; and we document the validity of the superadditivity property of ARD...

Appropriate inventory management is important for many businesses throughout the world. For the vaccines industry, appropriate inventory policies impact both the business' profitability and people's lives. An optimal policy must consider challenges such as product expiration, country specific...

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch bietet eine fundierte Einführung in die Planung und Steuerung von Projekten. Es basiert auf Vorlesungen für Studierende betriebswirtschaftlich und technisch orientierter Studiengänge. Grundlagen des Projektmanagements und der Projektplanung werden in didaktisch...