Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of empirical research on performance management (PM) in former communist Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, to evaluate the state of knowledge in this area and suggest possible directions for future research....

Reasoned fertilization is a major concern for sustainable agriculture and requires a major increase in the number of fertilizer formulas that cannot be achieved cost-effectively with current production models. We propose therefore a new approach, called reverse blending, based on a delayed...

In the vehicle routing literature, equity for drivers is mostly considered on a daily basis. In this work, we extend the literature by addressing equity on a longer term. We consider a time horizon of a few weeks and a test-bed routing problem motivated by healthcare logistics, with customer...

Historically, Operations Research (OR) discipline has mainly been focusing on economic concerns. Since the early 2000s, human considerations are gaining increasing attention, pushed by the growing societal concerns of sustainable development on the same terms as the economic and ecological ones....