Organizations in the humanitarian sector often face problems that are hard to solve owing to their complexity and high hidden solution knowledge. We investigate two problem-solving governance mechanisms in the case of floods in Indonesia. In our study, we compare the costs and benefits of two...

How to study islamic economics as science in reference to Quran and Sunnah the foundational issues -- Islamic economic methodology -- The scope of Islamic economics -- The formulation of islamic economic model -- Appendix 1: assignment of :-values for circular causation estimation/simulation --...

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change. This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals,...

Batch availability model, Batching and Scheduling, Completely-Knocked-Down. - This doctoral thesis introduces the problem of batching and scheduling non-permutation flow shops with m=2 batch processing machines in sequence and stage specific incompatible job families. Batches are builded at each...

'Not another survey' : the value of unconventional methods / David A. Buchanan and Alan Bryman -- part 1. Unconventional settings and data sources -- Desert island data : using BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in organization and management research / Laurie Cohen and Joanne Duberley -- Using...

Transdisciplinarity is a new way of scientifically meeting the challenges of sustainability. Indeed, interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation with non-academic `practice partners' is at the core of this; creating contextualised, socially relevant knowledge about complex real-world...

Transport economics and policy analysis is a field which has seen major advances in methodology in recent decades. The transport sector has many unique characteristics - non-storability, economies of scale and scope, indivisibilities and the extensive production of positive and negative...

In der Dissertation wird eine Methode entwickelt und angewandt, die der Abschätzung der Beiträge einer Branche zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung mittels eines Indikatorensystems dient. Die Methode wird erprobt und in ihrer Anwendung demonstriert, indem ein Indikatorensystem und die Vorgehensweise...

The premise underlying the use of citations data is that higher quality journals generally have a higher number of citations. The impact of citations can be distorted in a number of ways. Journals can, and do, inflate the number of citations through self citation practices, which may be...

Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among...