The book deals with theoretical concepts and ways of practical implementation of information sytems in companies. A successful information system project has to be based on the information strategy of the company. Taking the business strategy into consideration the information system value for...

The Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) seeks a complete economic evaluation of the Loaning Funds Program to support private agricultural product processing factories. This paper aims at economically evaluate one loaning project of ADBC : the soybean processing of Huabao Industrial Co....

For a long time Air Cargo Revenue Management (ACRM) has been an underdeveloped part of the revenue management subject. Many cargo airlines, or cargo divisions of passenger airlines, have started to implement IT-supported cargo revenue management solutions during the last few years. This paper...

This book examines future technological and policy prospects for the sustainable intensification of rainfed upland maize production in Asia, and derives R&D priorities for specific maize production environments and markets. Village-level and farmer-group surveys were conducted to characterize...

The accession of Hungary to the European Union created vast opportunities for the development of infrastructure in the area of environmental protection. But the financial resources almost always depend on the availability of some kind of regional cooperation or territorial integration. In my...

Through this paper, we are intending to underline the negative impact which the interpersonal conflict may have during projects. After reviewing the most important factors which generate this type of conflicts, we have discussed the main aspects about the principles and steps which a project...

In order to promote accession to the European Union, the Committee of the European Union set up a support fund within the EU Budget to assist the countries intending to join the EU in 1998-1999. The purpose of the subsidy was the development in the area of transport and environmental protection...

When talking about projects, the barrier is clear: successful and failed. Some fail due to different reasons, but lack of good project and risk management played a large part. Others succeed largely because of the rigorous and disciplined application of good project practices. But both groups...

Project risk management, as a subjective and dynamic decision method of avoiding project risk, plays an important role in selecting appropriate control measures (i.e. measure set) to handle multiple emerging risks (i.e. risk set). This paper focuses on the multi-risk control problem under the...