This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm`s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space?...

Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks

Die Toyota Motor Company -- Die Methoden von Toyota -- Die Retail Bank AG -- Zukunft hat, der Zukunft macht -- Operative Exzellenz: die ersten Schritte -- Implementierung des ersten Verbesserungskreislaufs -- Die Rolle der Informationstechnologie -- Implementierung des zweiten...

The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens' classic papers on public sector economics. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Decision Support Systems, ICDSST 2017, held in Namur, Belgium, in May 2017. The EWG-DSS series of the International Conference on Decision Support System Technology (ICDSST) offers a platform for European and...

This book investigates the design and implementation of market mechanisms to explore how they can support knowledge- and innovation management within firms. The book uses a multi-method design, combining qualitative and quantitative cases with experimentation. First the book reviews traditional...

Dedication -- Preface -- Data Mining and Knowledge Management -- Foundations of Intelligent Knowledge Management -- Intelligent Knowledge and Habitual Domain -- Domain Driven Intelligent Knowledge Discovery -- Knowledge-Incorporated Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Classifiers -- Knowledge...