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A newsvendor model with service and loss constraints

Jammernegg, Werner; Kischka, Peter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Actual performance measurement systems do not only consider financial measures like costs and profits but also non-financial indicators with respect customer service, quality and flexibility. Using the newsvendor model we explore the influence of possibly conflicting performance measures on...

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Level-Scheduling bei Variantenfließfertigung: Klassifikation, Literaturüberblick und Modellkritik

Boysen, Nils; Fliedner, Malte; Scholl, Armin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Viele Hersteller von Verbrauchsgütern sehen sich heutzutage einer enormen Variantenvielfalt gegenüber, die sie auf ihren Fließsystemen produzieren müssen. So bietet etwa BMW seine Automobile in 1032 theoretisch möglichen Varianten an. Um nicht die marktseitigen Vorteile dieser...

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Female Presence on Corporate Boards: A Multi-Country Study of Environmental Context

Terjesen, Siri; Singh, Val - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...

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Policy induced innovation networks: the case of the German "Leading-Edge Cluster competition"

Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Hinzmann, Susanne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The last decades saw a pronounced shift in innovation policy in Germany and many other countries towards increased …

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J.; Tracy, Spencer - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing "high-impact" companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...

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Local Innovation Systems and Benchmarking

Cantner, Uwe - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two...

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Backbone services as growth enabling factor - an Input-Output analysis for South Africa

Fricke, Susanne; Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

While previous studies highlight the importance of the manufacturing sector in the economy, we argue that rather backbone services play a key role for economic growth. We perform an Input-Output analysis to determine the linkages between backbone services and manufacturing in South Africa. We...

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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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