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Cost-benefit analysis and evolutionary computing : optimal scheduling of interactive road projects

Taplin, John H. E. (ed.); Qiu, Min (ed.); … - 2005

This book systematically addresses the issue of interdependence between road projects in a network, when prioritising and scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents substantial applications for both rural and urban projects and to the optimization of maintenance. The authors...

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A research agenda for management and organization studies

Czarniawska, Barbara (contributor) - 2016

Introduction -- 1. History of management - what is the future for research on the past? / Marie Laure Djelic -- 2. In search of what accounting is not: speculations on the future of valuing, transparency and a new aesth-etics for governing capitalism and democracy / Paolo Quattrone -- 3. From...

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Cooperative networks : control and optimization

Grundel, Don (ed.); Murphey, Robert (ed.); … - 2008

Cooperative networks have gained a tremendous amount of attention over the last several years because of their existence not only in biological, social and economic arenas, but because of direct applications in many more areas such as communications, robotics and military sciences. This volume...

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A research agenda for lean management

Furlan, Andrea (ed.); Powell, Daryl J. (ed.) - 2024

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This fascinating Research Agenda analyzes the key...

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Innovative methodologies in enterprise research

Hine, Damian (contributor); Carson, David (contributor) - 2007

-- 12. Issues in cross-national comparisons applied to building theory on informal innovation in SMEs -- 13. Marketing …

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Growth and economic development : essays in honour of A.P. Thirlwall

Thirlwall, Anthony P.; McCombie, John S. L.; Arestis, Philip - 2006

demonstrates the considerable influence that his work on economic theory has had on his contemporaries, and the profession as a … / Mark Roberts -- Endogenous growth theory : a partial critique / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The nature of economic … growth and the neoclassical approach. : more questions than answers? / John McCombie -- On the core of macroeconomic theory …

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Measuring and improving productivity in services : issues, strategies and challenges

Djellal, Faridah - 2008

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first part examines the theoretical consequences of...

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Financing transportation networks

Levinson, David M. - 2002

explores the fundamental theoretical basis of highway finance, in particular the use of tolls, and supports that theory with …

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Contracts and trust in alliances : discovering, creating and appropriating value

Vlaar, Paul W. L. - 2008

Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...

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Handbook on the economic complexity of technological change

Antonelli, Cristiano (contributor) - 2011

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...

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