The objective of this paper is to develop an optimal incentive system for multitaskingscientists in universities or professors under repeat contracting. With the aid of a principalagentmodel under repeat contracting, we show that (i) when a second task is assigned to aprofessor and the two tasks...

Component commonality - the use of the same version of a component across multiple products - is being increasingly considered as a promising way to offer high external variety while retaining low internal variety in operations. However, increasing commonality has both positive and negative cost...

We propose a mathematical model for one pattern of charts studied in technicalanalysis: in a phase of consolidation, the price of a risky asset goes down times after hitting aresistance level.[....] []

IT-Systeme sind in deutschen Krankenhäusern allgegenwärtig geworden - ob in der Unterstützungklinischer Leistungsprozesse oder administrativer Abläufe. Untersuchungen über den Wertbeitrag vonIT-Systemen fürs Krankenhaus existieren bislang keine. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschäftigt sich...