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Tilling the Soil—And Wait and See How the Next Generation Develops
How does the family, as a system, establish, develop, promote, support, and teach entrepreneurship as a behavior, belief, or value across...
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Prepositioning Emergency Inventories Under Uncertainties of Time, Location, and Quantity
An emergency incident will occur in the coming years, somewhere. It will be an earthquake, a landslide, a volcanic eruption, an epidemic of...
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Multi-stage scenario-based stochastic programming for managing lot sizing and workforce scheduling at Vestel
This study proposes a multi-stage stochastic production planning approach for a joint lot sizing and workforce scheduling problem under demand...
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Design of sustainable perishable food supply chain network under uncertainty
Managing a perishable food supply chain is a challenging task because of the short lifetime of the product and the uncertainty of demand. Perishable...
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Sustainable Value Creation An Inevitable Challenge to Business and Society
Sustainability sheds a whole new light on economic value creation. Sustainable value creation means looking critically at both revenues and costs....
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Business Implications of Sustainability Practices in Supply Chains
This chapter explores the various ways in which supply chains are or could approach sustainability by answering three questions all managers will...
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Climate Change Risk Management and Firms’ Adaptive Responses: Evidence from the Livestock Industry
Building on the existing literature on corporate risk management and emerging risks, this study investigates livestock firms’ identification,...
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Introduction
This book is dedicated to corporate sustainability in the context of sustainable value creation for society. It goes into what it means to...
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Optimierungsansätze bei Unsicherheit
In diesem Kapitel werden die gängigen Ansätze zur Berücksichtigung von Unsicherheit in der Literatur evaluiert und anhand von zwei Fallstudien...
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Wait-and-see strategy: Risk management in the internationalization process model
We interpret the wait-and-see strategy as a decision to maintain unchanged the firm’s commitments to its business network relationships. To explain...
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Examining chronic kidney disease screening frequency among diabetics: a POMDP approach
Forty percent of diabetics will develop chronic kidney disease (CKD) in their lifetimes. However, as many as 50% of these CKD cases may go...
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Surgical scheduling via optimization and machine learning with long-tailed data
Using data from cardiovascular surgery patients with long and highly variable post-surgical lengths of stay (LOS), we develop a modeling framework to...
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Evaluation and implementation of a Just-In-Time bed-assignment strategy to reduce wait times for surgical inpatients
Early bed assignments of elective surgical patients can be a useful planning tool for hospital staff; they provide certainty in patient placement and...
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The Value of Shared Information for allocation of drivers in ride-hailing: a proof-of-concept study
For drivers in ride-hailing companies, allocation within the city is paramount to get matched with rides. This decision depends on many factors,...
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Decision support system for appointment scheduling and overbooking under patient no-show behavior
Data availability enables clinics to use predictive analytics to improve appointment scheduling and overbooking decisions based on the predicted...
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Have a Nice Flight! Understanding the Interplay Between Topics and Emotions in Reviews of Luxury Airlines in the Pre- and Post-Covid-19 Periods
Few studies assessed the impact of Covid-19 on the aviation industry from the passengers’ perspective. This study examined how airline passengers’...
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Improving Patient Flow in a Primary Care Clinic
When patients visit primary care clinics, they can be subject to long wait times due to operational inefficiencies and bottlenecks, decreasing...
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A production queueing-inventory system with two-customer and a server subject to breakdown
A queueing-inventory system where the server is subject to breakdown is examined. The products in inventory are provided by production. Two different...
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Silently killing your panelists one email at a time: The true cost of email solicitations
Marketing firms routinely interact with their panelists via email. While sending an invitation to respond to a survey may seem virtually costless,...
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Reaching Luxury Shoppers, Travel Retail, and the Sense of Time
In this chapter, we explore the sense of time, looking at Rémy Cointreau and Roberto Cavalli’s success stories. In the Jaguar case, we use the Wait...