The question for the determinants and effects of the ownership concentration of firms is of central concern in the corporate governance literature. It has attracted significant attention in the last decades and has been frequently addressed by renown scholars in the corporate governance area....

Die Pflegenoten messen fast ausschließlich Struktur- und Prozessqualität. Aus diesem Grund liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass Größe (Synergieeffekte und Stichprobenvorteile), Trägerschaft (freigemeinnützige Träger mit besserer Personalausstattung und höherem Entgelt) sowie die regionale Lage...

In this paper, we consider single-machine scheduling with multiple due dates per job. This is motivated by several industrial applications, where it is not important by how much we miss a due date. Instead the relevant objective is to minimize the number of missed due dates. Typically, this...

This paper is the first to consider online algorithms to schedule a proportionate flexible flow shop of batching machines (PFFB). The scheduling model is motivated by manufacturing processes of individualized medicaments, which are used in modern medicine to treat some serious illnesses. We...