Continuing the (neo-)classical tradition of von Thünen, Launhardt, Weber, Palander, and Lösch this book offers a fresh approach to the location of industries and other economic activities, of market areas, spatial price distribution, locational specialization, urban and transportation systems,...

I: Organization: Micro and Macro -- Production Functions in the Analysis of Organizational Structure -- Revenue Maximization and Optimal Capital Policies of a Regulated Firm -- The Characteristics of Japanese Enterprises and their Financing -- Public Management: Does it Exist? How do you do it?...

The theme of this book is the emergence and survival of spatial economic structures. How are economic structures created in an otherwise homogeneous environment? The answer is found through an analysis of economic forces that operate in the two dimensional continuum of space. And here economies...

I. Rank -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Supervision -- 3. Control -- 4. Rank -- Supplement A: A Graph Theoretic Model of Supervision -- Supplement B: Precedence -- Supplement C: Communication Aspects of Rank -- II. Design -- 5. Span of Control -- 6. Estimation -- 7. Assignment -- Supplement D: Integers...

The main emphasis in this work is on answers to such questions as: Can organizations operate efficiently or is there inevitably a loss of control? What are the principles of efficient organizational design? Do organizations operate under constant, increasing or decreasing returns to scale? In...

I. Control -- II. Capacity -- III. Scale -- Careers -- IV. Probabilities of Promotion -- V. Salaries: Competition -- VI. Salaries: Monopsony -- VII. Distribution of Income -- Management -- VIII. Managerial Production Function -- IX. Minimum Average Cost -- X. Theory of the Firm -- Conclusion --...

This volume deals with Stochastic tools with special reference to applications in the areas of Physics, Biology and Operations Research. Quitea few of the papers deal with the applications of the rich theory of point processes in Physics and Operations Research. A few of the papers deal with the...

Experts in operations research and developers of software application systems have been treading separate paths for many years. It is urgently necessary to reset this course so that the demanding requirements of variousCIM concepts can be realized. This is specially relevant for computer-based...

Die Beiträge zum vorliegenden Band befassen sich mit der Entwicklung des Nachdenkens über den Raum als Dimension wirtschaftlichen Handelns. Ihr Zeithorizont reicht von der Stadtentwicklungstheorie Giovanni Boteros im 16. Jahrhundert bis zur »Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie« alias...