Sourcing of Services : International Aspects and Complex Categories
Lydia Bals provides terminological clarity regarding the field of offshoring. She identifies different types of offshoring, ...
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Sovereign Default Risk Valuation
Past cycles of sovereign lending and default in emerging markets suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. In addressing ...
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Spatial Analysis and GeoComputation
Spatial analysis has been in existence for a long time. More recently, GeoComputation - a new computationally intensive paradigm ...
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Spatial Econometrics
In recent years the so-called new economic geography and the issue of regional economic convergence have increasingly drawn ...
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Spillovers and Innovations
Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial ...
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Sports Leagues Scheduling : Models, Combinatorial Properties, and Optimization Algorithms
In the context of sports leagues scheduling (SLS) several groups' interests must be taken into account. This book treats ...
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Standardization and Expectations
Technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure ...
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Start-up
Start-up is a user guide for aspiring entrepreneurs and provides expert advice and guidance on every aspect of launching ...
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Stochastic Dominance
Stochastic Dominance is devoted to investment decision-making under uncertainty. The book covers three basic approaches to ...
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Stochastic Modeling of Manufacturing Systems
This volume is devoted to the development of analytical methods aiming at responding to variability in a way that limits ...
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Stochastic Optimization Methods
Optimization problems arising in practice involve random parameters. For the computation of robust optimal solutions, i.e., ...
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Stochastic Optimization Methods
Optimization problems arising in practice involve random model parameters. For the computation of robust optimal solutions, ...
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Stochastic Processes, Optimization, and Control Theory: Applications in Financial Engineering, Queueing Networks, and Manufacturing Systems
This book presents stochastic processes, control theory, differential games, optimization, and their applications in finance, ...
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Stock Market Anomalies
Interest in the Latin American emerging markets (LAEM) has increased considerably in recent years. It is often claimed that ...
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Storytelling
As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Yet, companies ...
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Strategic Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management
Closed loops depict supply chains for which Original Equipement Manufacturer reintegrate their returned products into their ...
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Strategic Competition in Oligopolies with Fluctuating Demand
Dynamic oligopolistic competition has implications both for the strategic management of firms and for the design of an effective ...
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Strategic IT Management
Growth, mergers, restructuring, innovation - all these important topics of today’s companies cannot be implemented without ...
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Strategic Management in Islamic Finance
The framework integrates insights into the current practices of Islamic finance, a variety of theories – namely the market-based ...
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Strategic Management — New Rules for Old Europe
The European market presents numerous opportunities and challenges for business enterprises. In this anthology, lecturers ...
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