Food retailers present consumers with a complex market offering. They offer consumers an assortment of products sourced from numerous suppliers, along with various services within a retailer-controlled environment (Burt & Sparks 2002). Food retailers aim to offer an assortment of products and...

This paper presents a robust branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the Capacitated Minimum Spanning Tree Problem (CMST). The variables are associated to q-arbs, a structure that arises from a relaxation of the capacitated prize-collecting arbores- cence problem in order to make it solvable in...

Assessment Centres are used as a tool for psychologists and coaches to ob- serve a number of dimensions in a person's behaviour and test his/her potential within a number of chosen focus areas. This is done in an intense course, with a number of dierent exercises which expose each participant's...

Baggrund Udviklingen i informationsteknologien samt i fremstillings- og transportteknologien har sammen med liberaliseringen af verdenshandlen haft afgørende indflydelse på logistikudviklingen og på udviklingen af SCM-tankegangen. Mange virksomheder har for at kunne fastholde deres...

This paper reports the results of an explorative study of six large Danish companies regarding the effects of ERP implementation and use. The study is part of a larger ERP study programme at the Aarhus School of Business. The data collection approach applied was based on interviews and...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate of developing corporate reporting practices by analyzing the information content of fundamental analyst reports and comparing this with annual reporting practices. As there has been much critique of the lacking relevance of disclosures through...

Society is evolving from the industrial society towards the information society where information technology plays a crucial role. Few IT innovations have had as much impact on business organizations in the past years as Enterprise Systems (ES). These systems affect most functions in the...

I de senere år har der været megen omtale af behovet for offentliggørelsen af supplerende oplysninger fx igennem årsrapporten, supplerende rapporteringsformer eller ad andre kommunikationsveje. Danmark bliver ofte nævnt som foregangsland i denne henseende, bl.a. pga. Videnskabsministeriets...

This paper focuses on the use of environmental information in investment decision making. The research approach employed was based on an experiment where three groups were asked to allocate investment funds between two companies based on financial accounts and information material from these...

This research note is written as an invited comment on the report "Information for better markets: New reporting models for business" (ICAEW 2004). The remarks in this research note are the viewpoints of the author himself and therefore his responsibility alone. They are not the viewpoints of...