Effective decision-making is a key prerequisite for a successful organization. Today's organizations are large and continue to grow in size and scope. This development leads to higher complexity in managing and controlling organizations. Consequentially, selecting the right course of action has...

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...

Worldwide, the idea of "person-less" banks, and full-service (financial services) institutions which compete with "non-bank" financial services organizations, are becoming the new way of doing business. To meet global competition, the Canadian Financial Services Industry has a need to conduct...

Young novice drivers are at a significantly higher risk of having a fatal vehicle crash than experienced drivers. One of the main causes for this statistic is that these drivers lack risk perception skills . They have not developed the ability to efficiently perceive or predict risks while...

In this dissertation, I developed a unified complex network framework for environmental decision-making. I focused on complex network systems arising in the context of green logistics, including global supply chains, and electronic waste recycling. The framework that I developed is able to...

The exchange of goods and services is affected by pricing policies, of which there are two broad categories: posted-price mechanisms (take-it-or-leave-it pricing), and price-discovery mechanisms (auction pricing). In the past, companies fixed prices of a product for a relatively long time period;...

In this thesis, we analyze the effect that price postponement has on the performance and coordination of a two-stage supply chain facing consumer returns. In an extended news-vendor setting with a single product, a single manufacturer and a single retailer who faces stochastic and...

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...

Component obsolescence in the "high-tech" electronics industry has become a problem that cannot be ignored. Although recent attention has been given to component obsolescence, in general this issue is still dealt with reactively. This often results in sustainment of a long-life system such as...

Within this thesis we investigate the effect of asymmetric agent decision making on the coordination of a two echelon supply chain facing consumer returns. On the basis of the classical newsvendor setup, supply chain players may face stochastic, or stochastic and price-dependent demand. We...