All ebooks in the collection "Contributions to Management Science" - Physica

Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains

Hans-Joachim Schramm

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations.In such contexts, the freight forwarder is...

Contemporary Leadership Theories

Ingo Winkler

The Dynamics of Emerging Stock Markets

Mohamed El Hedi Arouri , Fredj Jawadi , Duc Khuong Nguyen

Emerging markets have received a particular attention of academic researchers and practitioners since they decided to open their domestic capital markets to foreign participants about three decades ago. At the same time, we remark that theoretical and empirical research...

Vertical Software Industry Evolution

Oleksiy Mazhelis , Pasi Tyrväinen

Seldom has any business been in such turmoil as the Communication Service Providers (CSP) business is today. Telecom operators providing communication services constructed the infrastructure of the global information society with their trillion investments on various...

Performance Management for Different Employee Groups

Achim Krausert

Manage managers based on competencies and informal networks – Set task-based output goals for professional specialists – Control temporary workers at the agency level – Ensure that contractors are managed effectively as part of boundary-crossing networks. This book...

Facility Location

Masoud Hekmatfar , Reza Zanjirani Farahani

Sustainable Human Resource Management

Ina Ehnert

Predictions are that sustainability becomes the next big topic for Human Resource Management after internationalization and globalization. This book gives new answers to these questions: - How can HRM contribute to attracting, developing and retaining highly...

Managing Diversified Portfolios

Daniel O. Klier

There has been a long tradition of research on the relation between diversification and performance of public corporations in the strategy and finance fields. As for private equity portfolios, research on this matter is rather scarce. From a theoretical as well as from...