Mineral raw materials, supply chain, mining industry, sourcing process, extraction process, exploration process, modeling, SCOR model, DCOR model. - The mining industry is essential for manufacturing because it provides the basic materials for the related value-adding processes. Deep integration...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...