placed on reliability, pricing structures, lack of flexibility in adjusting production inputs, just-in-time practices …

The work of this dissertation is concerned with the study of the effectiveness ofparadigms of production flexibility to … either improve system performance or mitigatesystem risk. A brief introduction to the concept of operational flexibility is … of operational flexibility on the field of supply chainmanagement. A flexible supply chain design is useful to mitigate …

based economy. Given the currency board arrangement and low synchronisation with the euro area, flexibility is also needed …

that are relevant for the enterprise. In this paper we propose a novel approach that addresses such flexibility …

’ flexibility,especially considering market imperfections and otherobstacles associated with the transition process.In this paper we … formulate the theoretical frameworkfor flexibility analysis in order to investigate the impactof farm-specific characteristics … choosing the level of flexibility,the decision-maker determines the technology of thefirm, expressed by the cost function. The …

We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …

We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks …

As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The … on separate networks increasingly more viable. So, which is the right option? The question is not unique to networks, and …