Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of...

I:Business Modelling Fundamentals -- Introduction: Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches -- 1. Gleanings into the Second Best Debate -- 2. Transfer Pricing: From Price Guidelines To Strategic Interaction -- 3. Trading Mechanism Design for Swap Markets -- 4. Production Capacity for...

This book presents concepts and methodologies for the integration of business process management (BPM). It focuses on the managerial and organizational challenges of BPM, such as strategic and cultural alignment, governance and education of BPM stakeholders.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Supply Chain Management -- 1 A Supply Chain Network Design Considering Network Density -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Definition -- 3 Model Formulation -- 3.1 Objective Functions -- 3.1.1 First Objective: Maximizing Supply Chain Profit (Z1) --...

Political scientists frequently use qualitative evidence to support or evaluate the empirical applicability of formal models. Despite this widespread practice in international relations and comparative politics, neither the qualitative methods literature nor research on empirically evaluating...

The AuraCall simulation is a tool for teaching two subjects, and the relationships between them: alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process choice and design, and negotiation regarding this issue. Designed for to be used at the intermediate level, it sets participants into the role of...

The article develops a conceptualization of problem solving and decision making which synthesizes a number of models and approaches in the context of multi-methodological practice to process analysis and performance management. It also emphasizes the combining of hard and soft systems...

Implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has led to the motto, “Common ... and Global.” As a result, employing standard ERP systems has led to firms adopting common artifacts (e.g., vendor numbering systems) and processes (e.g., sales management) for global...

Mathematical forecasting approaches can lead to reliable demand forecast in some environments by extrapolating regular patterns in time-series. However, unpredictable events that do not appear in historical data can reduce the usefulness of mathematical forecasts for demand planning purposes....

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is frequently employed in the predictive modeling process with the goal of improving the generalization performance of models. This paper takes a design science perspective on DR.We treat it as an important business analytics artifact and investigate its utility in...