Search Results - subject:"Objective function"

Der kommunale Forstbetrieb im Spannungsfeld von Gemeinwohlorientierung und Erwerbswirtschaft : eine institutionenökonomische Analyse, empirische Studien und Handlungsempfehlungen

Ruppert-Winkel, Chantal - 2006 - 1. Aufl.

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Managing economical and ecological goal conflicts : demonstrated in the context of sustainable supply chain networks

Winkler, Herwig; Kaluza, Bernd; Schemitsch, Hubert B. - 2006

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The impact of boards with financial expertise on corporate policies

Güner, A. Burak; Malmendier, Ulrike; Tate, Geoffrey - 2006

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Konzeptionelle Grundlagen der Analyse betriebswirtschaftlicher Effekte einer familienbewussten Personalpolitik

Schneider, Helmut; Wieners, Helen - 2006

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Taking Friedman Seriously : Maximizing Profits and Social Performance

Husted, Bryan W.; de Jesus Salazar, José - 2006

This paper examines the situation of firms that have two objectives: profit maximization and social performance. By looking comparatively at the cases of altruism, coerced egoism, and strategy, this paper uses the tools of microeconomics to define the optimal level of social output that should...

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Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

Dafny, Leemore - 2006

This paper investigates whether managers who fail to exploit regulatory loopholes are vulnerable to replacement. We use the U.S. hospital industry in 1985-1996 as a case study. A 1988 change in Medicare rules widened a pre-existing loophole in the Medicare payment system, presenting hospitals...

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Unifying the supply-side and demand-side of business strategy with an ROI objective function

Steele, Brett D. - In: International Journal of Engineering Management and … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 18-53

rigor of strategic business reasoning. The ROI objective function reveals the consistent mathematical structure of the … noting how the ROI objective function represents a simultaneous theory of investment allocation and design specification. …This paper provides a derivation, justification, and application of a generalised return on investment (ROI) objective …

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Genetic Algorithms for Multi-objective Optimization: Application to a Multi-reservoir System in the Chi River Basin, Thailand

Kumphon, Bungon - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 12, pp. 4369-4378

The multi-objective genetic algorithm is applied to determine the optimal operation of a multi-reservoir system in the Chi River Basin, Thailand. Two competing objective functions are considered; dam release and dam storage. The predicted values for the release and storage needed are mostly lower...

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A bargaining theory of the firm

Britz, Volker; Herings, P.; Predtetchinski, Arkadi - In: Economic Theory 54 (2013) 1, pp. 45-75

conflict about the firm’s objective function tends to arise among its owners. In this paper, we take a new approach to this … transfers to redistribute profits. Nevertheless, our results do support the Drèze criterion as the appropriate objective … function of the firm. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 …

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Bi-criteria group scheduling in hybrid flowshops

Bozorgirad, Mir Abbas; Logendran, Rasaratnam - In: International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2013) 2, pp. 599-612

We consider a group scheduling problem in a hybrid flowshop where the parallel machines in one or more stages of the flowshop are unrelated and have different run times for the same job. The objective of the problem is to simultaneously decrease the producer's cost by minimizing the...

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