On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee...

"This book explores the role of co-manufacturing in the current social and productive system. It also presents the multi-factory model, that is the model elaborated by the authors to realize from scratch a medium or medium to large sized co-manufacturing space."

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies’ choice between processing and ordinary trade -...

Increased robot use, fuelled by price declines and the increased dexterity of these machines, is expected to affect existing/future production technologies and the organisation of production within GVCs. In order to safeguard their competitiveness in an increasingly digitalised global economy,...

Betriebliche Arbeitsgruppen sind eine in der deutschen Industrie häufig anzutreffende Form der Fertigungsorganisation. Betrachtet man die innerbetriebliche Organisation aus der Sicht der Neuen Institutionenökonomik, so kann man die Arbeitsgruppe als eine Institution verstehen, mit deren Hilfe...

Wie ein Musikstück eine ganze Produktionsstätte lahmlegen kann, welche Gefahr der Mensch für IT Systeme darstellt und wie IT-Risiken finanziell bewertet werden sollten, sind Fragen, die sich Einzeln und in Summe mit diesem Buch beantworten lassen. Im Mittelpunkt steht die...

Florian Osterrieder untersucht auf Basis von qualitativ-empirischen Fallstudien eines Volumen- und eines Premiumherstellers die Replikation von Produktionsroutinen in der Automobilindustrie. Es wird ein mikrofundierter, praxistheoretischer Bezugsrahmen (im Sinne einer Meta-Routine) zum Aufbau...

Der Anstieg globaler Produktion und ausländischer Direktinvestitionen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf verarbeitende Unternehmen. Organisationsinterne Fertigungsaktivitäten werden heutzutage in einem Netzwerk von global verteilten Produktionsstandorten...

This volume presents several case studies highlighting the latest findings in Industry 4.0 projects utilizing S-BPM features. Their potential is explored in detail, while the limits of engineering a company from a communication-centred perspective are also discussed. After a general introduction...

The target costing method involves implementing a homogeneous set of tools on cost planning, cost management and cost control. This method aims to reduce costs by knowing the different stages of a product cycle, analyzing the costs of each phase and improving the technologies and manufacturing...

The target costing method involves implementing a homogeneous set of tools on cost planning, cost management and cost control. This method aims to reduce costs by knowing the different stages of a product cycle, analyzing the costs of each phase and improving the technologies and manufacturing...

Since material handling agents in a FMS are most efficient when moving in straight lines, a common layout of machines in a FMS is a single row layout. This allows a floor designer to model the problem of generating an optimal machine layout in a FMS as a single row facility layout problem...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we present a neighborhood search heuristic...

The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way contract enforcement institutions determine international trade...

We develop a political economy model of growth to examine economic development led by the interactions between an economic decision concerning a firm’s production technology (CRS vs IRS technology) and a political decision concerning public infrastructures. We show that multiple equilibrium...