Purpose – The paper seeks to show pitfalls in the application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to efficiency analysis and performance measurement as well as ways to steer clear of these pitfalls. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines guidelines for avoiding pitfalls in the...

Purpose: In the last decades, the transport capacities of container vessels have tremendously increased. This leads to longer berth times and greater peak loads at container terminals, especially when schedules are perturbed. Thus, existing container handling processes need to be re-evaluated...

Purpose: In the last decades, the transport capacities of container vessels have tremendously increased. This leads to longer berth times and greater peak loads at container terminals, especially when schedules are perturbed. Thus, existing container handling processes need to be re-evaluated...

Only recently researchers have started to focus on the interface of production andoperations management and (corporate) entrepreneurship. The present study builds onthis developing research stream and develops and empirically analyzes a model thatillustrates how a firm’s entrepreneurial...

Sustainable logistics concepts mainly focus on strategicdecision levels for example in supply chain design,warehouse location and standard transport mode selectiondecisions. This paper is addressing a more operativeapproach and analyzing green concepts for day-to-daylogistics decisions, commonly...

In this paper, the authors address the distribution of efficiency gains among partially autonomous supply networkactors in a manner they will accept as fair and as an incentive to cooperation. The problem is economicallysignificant because it requires substantiating efficiency gains in an...

In logistics sustainability concepts such as CO2 footprint measurement, greenlogistics or empty transport reduction are developed and used in relative isolationfrom important future technology trends such as RFID, GPS or processautomation. This research contribution seeks for an integrated view...

Business and information systems engineering (BISE) has established itself as a distinct sub-discipline “between” business sciences and computer science at least in the German-speaking countries. This primarily becomes obvious by two facts. First, the BISE section is one of the largest...

The addressed scientific problem is the purpose to distribute the efficiency gains among partially autonomousactors in a supply web in a manner that the actors accept as fair and thus find it advantageous to cooperate witheach other.There are three reasons why this problem is economically...