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Entwurf betrieblicher Datenelemente: Ein Weg zur Integration von Informationssystemen (Betriebs- und Wirtschaftsinformatik #28)

In der Integration von Informatikapplikationen wird in Zukunft ein großes Potential für Unternehmen liegen. Dabei steht die Datenintegration, d.h. die gemeinsame Nutzung derselben Daten durch verschiedene Programme, im Vordergrund. Ein Hindernis bei der Realisierung dieses Zieles stellt ungeplante Redundanz in Form synonymer und homonymer Datenelemente dar. Traditionelle Datenbankentwurfsmethoden bieten zur Lösung dieses Problems nur in geringem Ausmaß Lösungen an. Dieses Buch beschreibt eine Methode und ein computerunterstütztes Werkzeug zur Vermeidung ungeplanter Redundanz. Zentraler Bestandteil ist ein Verfahren zur inhaltlichen Beschreibung von Datenelementen mit Hilfe von Deskriptoren. Durch diese Vorgehensweise wird es möglich, auch große Mengen an Datenelementen inhaltlich zu vergleichen. Die Methode ist so konzipiert, daß sie ohne große Mühe in bestehende Softwareentwurfswerkzeuge, z.B. Data Dictionaries, eingebaut werden kann. Die gute Verständlichkeit des Verfahrens hat dazu geführt, daß zur Zeit verschiedene Unternehmen, Behörden und Unternehmensberatungen dabei sind, das Konzept praktisch zu realisieren. Die methodische und empirische Fundierung macht das Konzept nicht nur für Praktiker der Softwareentwicklung, sondern auch für Studenten der Wirtschaftsinformatik interessant.

Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics: Essays in Honor of John V. Krutilla (Routledge Revivals)

This book, first published in 1988, provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla, one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics, and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems and theoretical issues and resource policies and the practice of applied welfare economics. This title will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies.

Environmental Resources and Applied Welfare Economics: Essays in Honor of John V. Krutilla (Routledge Revivals)

This book, first published in 1988, provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla, one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics, and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems and theoretical issues and resource policies and the practice of applied welfare economics. This title will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies.

Erfolgreiche Anzeigen: Kriterien und Beispiele zur Beurteilung und Gestaltung

Essays on Production Theory and Planning

The thirteen essays of this book deal with various aspects of production manage­ ment which have shown a growing importance in research, teaching and practice within the last years and are partly neglected in the literature. The contents range from theoretical issues to case studies. Significant relations among different essays (chapters) give rise to group them into four major parts dealing with separate themes of production management: - fundamental organizational aspects of the production process, - general problems and modern concepts of materials management, - joint production with surplus, waste and hazardous byproducts, - production aspects of cutting stock and trim loss problems. Moreover, there is a strong material connection between the contributions to this volume because they all are based on a common conceptual framework emphasizing the production theoretic foundation. The collection of papers in this book is also designed to provide a fairly comprehensive picture of scientific work in the field of production management done during the last years at the Institute of Production Economics of the Fern­ universiUit in Hagen, partly in cooperation with other scientists. Since all but two articles have not been published in English before, the reader gets quite a new view on the results of this recent research.

Estimation of Simultaneous Equation Models with Error Components Structure (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #312)

Economists can rarely perform controlled experiments to generate data. Existing information in the form of real-life observations simply has to be utilized in the best possible way. Given this, it is advantageous to make use of the increasing availability and accessibility of combinations of time-series and cross-sectional data in the estimation of economic models. But such data call for a new methodology of estimation and hence for the development of new econometric models. This book proposes one such new model which introduces error components in a system of simultaneous equations to take into account the temporal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of panel data. After a substantial survey of panel data models, the newly proposed model is presented in detail and indirect estimations, full information and limited information estimations, and estimations with and without the assumption of normal distribution errors. These estimation methods are then applied using a computer to estimate a model of residential electricity demand using data on American households. The results are analysed both from an economic and from a statistical point of view.

Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as "…a unique teaching tool."

Ethik und Unternehmensführung (Management Forum)

Die Unternehmung ist in weiten Kreisen der öffentlichen Meinung in eine zwielichtige Lage geraten. Sie wird für viele der Schädi­ gungen des menschlichen Lebensfeldes, die in den letzten vier Jahrzehnten eingetreten sind, verantwortlich gemacht. Der früher ausschliesslich an sie angelegte Bewährungsmassstab ihrer wirt­ schaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit genügt nicht mehr. Im Gegensatz zur Zeit vor dem zweiten weltkrieg wird in ihr nicht mehr ein ausschliesslich ökonomisches, sondern ein sozio-ökonomisches Gebilde gesehen, dem Pflichten der Gesellschaft gegenüber auf - legt sind. Eine Eingliederung in diese zu finden, die auf Grund der Wahrneh­ mung ihres Wertes für die menschliche Gemeinschaft zur erneuten Erlangung einer anerkannten Stellung in ihr führt, erscheint für sie stets wichtiger. In ihr ist ein Kreis von Massnahmen entstan­ den, welche von diesem Ziel bestimmt werden. Sie bemüht sich, das über sie in der Oeffentlichkeit bestehende Meinungsbild durch die Gestaltung ihrer öffentlichen Beziehungen zu pflegen. Vor allem hat sich in ihr eine stets stärker zusammenhängende normative Leitungsfunktion herausgebildet, welche ihr Handlungsgefüge über­ lagert und es einem Rahmen von ihr selbst gesetzter Anforderungen unterstellt. Diese schlagen sich in Leitbildern nieder, in denen sich die Unternehmung zu bestimmten Verpflichtungen dem Staat, der Gesellschaft und ihren Mitarbeitern gegenüber bekennt, in damit übereinstimmenden Politiken, welche ihre Geschäftstätigkeit regeln, in Führungsrichtlinien, in denen die Stellung der für sie arbeitenden Menschen in ihrem Aufgabenfeld umschrieben wird und ihnen bestimmte Rechte zuerkannt werden.

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Euronotes und Euro Commercial Paper als Finanzinnovationen: Vom RUF zum ECP (Schriftenreihe für Kreditwirtschaft und Finanzierung #4)

The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation: (pdf)

The Evolution of Public Pension Schemes (Microeconomic Studies)

1. 1 An introduction to the problem This book deals with the development of public pension schemes. The operation of public pension schemes has drawn a great deal of attention recently due to ageing of the population which has become apparent since the 19 70s. This would probably have been less of a problem if these schemes had been financed by a Capital Reserve (abbreviated from now on as CR) system. As is well-known, in a pure CR-system individuals (or generations) save for their own retirement. The (average) rate of return on the premiums paid in this system equals the real rate of interest and, in principle, changes in the rate of population growth do not affect the premium rate or the benefit rate of the system. Most public pension schemes, however, are financed by a Pay-As-You-Go (abbreviated from now on as PAYG) system. In this system current pension payments are financed by current premium payments. In contrast to the CR-system intergenerational transfers occur in this system. If the number of retired people increases relative to the number of workers the premium rate will increase under PAYG. In itself this increase does not have to imply any concern for the premium paying population. What counts is whether the rate of return under a PAYG-system will fall (too far) below the rate of return the CR-system is offering.

Evolutionary Economics: Institutional Theory and Policy

This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume II considers basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Evolutionary Economics

This two-volume work is intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume I, "Foundations of Institutional Thought", identifies the origins of institutional economics and explores the primary analytical tools in its development. The papers included in Volume II, "Institutional Theory and Policy", consider basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Evolutionary Economics: Institutional Theory and Policy

This is part of a two-volume work intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume II considers basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Evolutionary Economics: Institutional Theory And Policy

This two-volume work is intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume I, "Foundations of Institutional Thought", identifies the origins of institutional economics and explores the primary analytical tools in its development. The papers included in Volume II, "Institutional Theory and Policy", consider basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Expertensysteme: Neue Automatisierungspotentiale im Büro- und Verwaltungsbereich? (neue betriebswirtschaftliche forschung (nbf) #47)

Explaining Metals Prices: Economic Analysis of Metals Markets in the 1980s and 1990s (Rochester Studies in Managerial Economics and Policy #5)

Work on this book began in the Spring of 1983, not long­ after an Amax Corporation annual budget meeting. As a member of the Amax board of directors since 1979, I had been present at such meetings in which the molybdenum price had been forecast to move higher than $7.00 per pound. The actual annual average prices were $9.70 in 1980, $8.50 in 1981, and $4.00 in 1982. The forecast for 1983 called for prices to return to higher levels, but as both dealer and producer prices declined further, my research began in earnest. Initially, the research was to address the question of why the molybdenum price had declined by more than half in a short period. More fundamental, as other metals prices also declined, was an impelling need to know the causes of the abrupt and sustained reduction in metals price levels that year. As prices stayed at low levels, while those of other materials recovered over the 1983-1986 period, the question became that of why metals prices had remained at startlingly low levels for over five years.

Explorative Daten-Analyse: EDA; Einführung in die deskriptive Statistik (Heidelberger Lehrtexte Wirtschaftswissenschaften)

In diesem Buch wird die deskriptive Statistik im weitesten Sinne behandelt. Explorative Datenanalyse (EDA), deskriptive Statistik und graphische Darstellungstechnik werden unter einem gemeinsamen Aspekt beschrieben. Das Buch versucht, erstmals in deutscher Sprache, die Datenaufbereitung im Stile Tukey (1977) und Mosteller und Tukey (1977) mit Beispielen aus dem sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich dem Studenten nahezubringen. Dabei wird vollständig auf den Gebrauch von Wahrscheinlichkeiten verzichtet, dafür aber der Begriff der empirischen Verteilung zentral behandelt. Darüberhinaus wird eine Brücke zwischen der traditionellen (deutschsprachigen) deskriptiven Statistik und dem neuen explorativen Zugang des angelsächsischen Raumes geschlagen. Schließlich wird in jedem Kapital die Verfügbarkeit der Methoden in Programmpaketen kurz diskutiert.

External Constraints on Economic Policy in Brazil, 1889–1930: (pdf) (Latin American Ser.)

Factors Determining External Debt: An Intertemporal Study (Studies in Contemporary Economics)

Against the background of the international debt problem which originated with the oil shocks of the seventies, this book undertakes a theoretical analysis of the factors determining aggregate external debt, using the example of a raw material importing country. Instead of the usual static definition of the trade balance as the difference between the value of exports and imports in a single period, here an intertemporal approach is used with a country's current account balance determined as the difference between aggregate saving and aggregate net investment, variables which are primarily dependent on expectations about the future. The analysis is based on microeconomic optimization models which enables individual causal relationships to be presented in a detailed way, the "optimal" size of external debt to be determined and the desirability of an immediate adjustment in the level of debt following an external disturbance to be shown from a welfare point of view.

The Fashion Conspiracy: The Dazzling Inside Story Of The Glamorous World Of International High Fashion

From the catwalks of Paris to the sweatshops of South Korea; from Seventh Avenue glitz to Tokyo new-wave… The sophisticated brokings of the fashion conspiracy have generated a powerful new force in the world economy; designer money.Nicholas Coleridge presents a fascinating portrait of the jet-setting matrons who are the gurus and tyrants of the fashion press; of fashion legends like Paloma Picasso and Tina Chow; of the top store buyers who command $700 million a season. He probes the incredible world of the designer billionaires like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Yves St Laurent whose fashion empires are richer than entire Third World countries.Here are the jealousies, the glamour, the buccaneering, the espionage and the razzmatazz in a witty and penetrating guide to an extraordinary world.

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek #1)

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes." "The achievement of The Fatal Conceit is that it freshly shows why socialism must be refuted rather than merely dismissed—then refutes it again."—David R. Henderson, Fortune. "Fascinating. . . . The energy and precision with which Mr. Hayek sweeps away his opposition is impressive."—Edward H. Crane, Wall Street Journal F. A. Hayek is considered a pioneer in monetary theory, the preeminent proponent of the libertarian philosophy, and the ideological mentor of the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions."

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek #1)

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes." "The achievement of The Fatal Conceit is that it freshly shows why socialism must be refuted rather than merely dismissed—then refutes it again."—David R. Henderson, Fortune. "Fascinating. . . . The energy and precision with which Mr. Hayek sweeps away his opposition is impressive."—Edward H. Crane, Wall Street Journal F. A. Hayek is considered a pioneer in monetary theory, the preeminent proponent of the libertarian philosophy, and the ideological mentor of the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions."

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek #1)

Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors. He labels as the "fatal conceit" the idea that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes." "The achievement of The Fatal Conceit is that it freshly shows why socialism must be refuted rather than merely dismissed—then refutes it again."—David R. Henderson, Fortune. "Fascinating. . . . The energy and precision with which Mr. Hayek sweeps away his opposition is impressive."—Edward H. Crane, Wall Street Journal F. A. Hayek is considered a pioneer in monetary theory, the preeminent proponent of the libertarian philosophy, and the ideological mentor of the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions."