"This book addresses the coordination of operations planning of supply chains involves simplifying complex decision problems into a hierarchy of mutually inter-dependent decision problems. It also provides insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge,...

Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only attributes of firms but also the framework conditions within which firms operate matter. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a...

Two Bayesian optimal design criteria for hierarchical linear models are discussed - the psi_beta criterion for the estimation of individual-level parameters beta, and the psi_theta criterion for the estimation of hyper-parameters theta. While the psi_beta criterion involves only the...

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...