Nations that have managed to become rich have had institutional features that supported incentives for value creation while ensuring that the ways insiders and special interest groups can extract monopoly rents are limited. Improved skills have been a central component of helping individuals and...

A coalition of freight carriers is considered which has to decide how to allocate a pool of transport requests among its members. The literature is aware of a number of solution approaches which usually assume truthful behavior of the freight carriers. However, the used negotiation protocols are...

"Das bewährte Lehrbuch vermittelt in bereits 8. Auflage die Grundlagen von Supply Chain Management und IT-gestützter Logistik. Für eine rasche Orientierung und leichteren Zugang zum Thema wurde die Neuauflage deutlich verkürzt und komprimiert. Die Schwerpunkte umfassen Distributionssysteme...

The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint targets an ASEAN single market in 2015. This is an ambitious reform agenda that seeks to ensure the free flow of services, investment, and skilled labor along with the free flow of goods and the freer flow of capital in the ASEAN region. For logistics...

"Thomas C. Patterson's large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth...

With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

Große Transportdienstleister (TDL) können Einsparpotentiale in der Tourenplanung durch Bündelungseffekte erschließen. Demgegenüber sind kleinere TDL auf die Bildung kooperativer Netzwerke angewiesen, um so ihre Kapazitäten auszulasten. In dieser Arbeit wird ein neuer dezentraler...