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Mass Customization: Opportunities, Methods, and Challenges for Manufacturers
Mass Customization examines the business opportunities, considerations, and challenges manufacturers in various industries must weigh before committing to the significant investment in machinery and software needed to go to mass customization. For manufacturers who decide that it’s time to take the plunge, the author describes the proven methods and latest technologies for making mass customi…
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- 978-1-4842-1007-9
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The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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Design for Experience Where Technology Meets Design and Strategy
Presents a strategic perspective and design methodology that guide the process of developing digital products and services that provide?real experience? to users. Only when the material experienced runs its course to fulfilment is it then regarded as?real experience? that is distinctively senseful, evaluated as valuable, and harmoniously related to others. Based on the theoretical background of…
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- 9783319143040
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- 338.71
The Profitable Supply Chain
The book addresses situations found in such industries as consumer electronics, healthcare, telecommunications, consumer goods, industrial equipment, building materials, and many others. No matter the industry, all firms trading products face operational challenges in producing and/or moving goods in a geographically dispersed global network while fulfilling customer demand in a timely and cost…
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- 978-1-4842-0526-6
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- VIII, 296
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The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
The book presents theoretical and empirical research on the integrated assessment of cartels’ effects on national economies. The empirical analysis is based on three cases in Lithuania, a country chosen because it corresponds to the features of a small economy with a developing culture of competition. An integrated assessment of a cartel’s impact by measuring the net economic effect created…
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- 978-3-319-17287-3
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- XX, 315, 26 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- The Impact of Cartels on National Economy and Competitiveness
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Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2016 : Basics, Model…
The revised Fourth Edition of this popular textbook is redesigned with Excel 2016 to encourage business students to develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers as decision makers. Students learn to build models using logic and experience, produce statistics using Excel 2016 with shortcuts, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The textbook features new …
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- 978-3-319-32185-1
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- 650
Business Relationship Management and Marketing : Mastering Business Markets
Relationship management, key account management and customer orientation are concepts that have become central to modern management. This book is dedicated to illustrating and reflecting these concepts and their corresponding methods and instruments in depth. It is thereby focused on the business-to-business realm and equally applies to traditional industrial markets as well as to business-to-b…
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- 978-3-662-43856-5
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Business Process Management Workshops : BPM 2014 International Workshops, Ein…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014, in September 2014. The ten workshops comprised Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth 2014), Security in Business Processes (SBP 2014), Process Model Collections…
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- 978-3-319-15895-2
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- 650
Business Intelligence for New-Generation Managers : Current Avenues of Develo…
Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations – in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. In these demanding times, a redesigned Business Intelligence (BI) should support managers in their new roles. This book summarizes current avenues of development helping managers to perform their jobs more…
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Anomalies in Net Present Value, Returns and Polynomials, and Regret Theory in…
This book explores why Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) are not necessarily accurate or efficient tools for valuation and decision-making. The author specifically addresses the biases and framing effects inherent in the NPV/MIRR/IRR model and in related approaches such as Adjusted Present Value (APV), Net Future Value (NFV), and by extension, Polynomials. In d…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-44698-5
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- XIII, 327
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- 332.4 NWO a
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