Several humanitarian organizations today find themselves thinly stretched in multiple protracted relief and recovery operations around the world. At the same time, the need for humanitarian relief and recovery operations is forecasted to increase dramatically in the next decades. Hence,...

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In general, there exist conflicts between optimization of different objectives in a particular situation, i.e., when we consider a multi-objective and multi-level optimization problem. Two objective functions are said to be in conflict if the full satisfaction of one results in only partial...

The implementation of supply chain initiatives (SCI) often requires specific investments in technology, material, organization and staff. However, the assessment of the economic viability of such inter-organizational activities is not a trivial issue. Philip Wessely supports managerial...