Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Author: Günter Fandel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 3642591329

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The organizers of the 12th International Conference on Multiple Cri teria Decision Making (MCDM) held June 19-23, 1995 in Hagen received the second time the opportunity to prepare an international conference on MCDM in Germany; the first opportunity has been the 3rd International Conference on MCDM in Konigswinter, 1979. Quite a time ellapsed since then and therefore it might be interesting to compare some indicators of the development of the International Society on MCDM, which has been founded in Konigswinter. Stanley Zionts has been elected first president and all 44 participants of that Conference became founding members. Today our Society has over 1200 members and its own Journal (MCDM World Scan). In Hagen, 1996, we had 152 participants from 34 countries. It is interesting to mention that also other Groups established their organi zation, like the European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aid, the German Working Group on Decision Theory and Applications, the Multi Objective Programming and Goal Programming Group, ESIGMA, and some others. It is also interesting to note that the intersection of members of all these Groups and Societies is not empty and there is quite a cooperation among them.

Effective Risk Management
Effective Risk Management

Author: Edmund H. Conrow

Publisher: AIAA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781563475818

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This important new text defines the steps to effective risk management and helps readers create a viable risk management process and implement it on their specific project. It will also allow them to better evaluate an existing risk management process, find some of the shortfalls, and develop and implement needed enhancements.

Managing Buyer-Supplier Relations
Managing Buyer-Supplier Relations

Author: Rajesh Nellore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-08-08

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1134526644

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Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews with representatives from the automotive, aircraft and white goods industries, in order to describe the tools and techniques needed to better manag

Social Capital Versus Social Theory
Social Capital Versus Social Theory

Author: Ben Fine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-05-03

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1134578318

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This volume traces the origins of social capital through the work of Becker, Bourdieu and Coleman, and comprehensively reviews the literature across the social sciences.

Service Industries Marketing
Service Industries Marketing

Author: Mark Gabbott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1135228906

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This book covers a wide spectrum of topics, service contexts and methodologies and reflects the broad range of current services research. Its aim is to provide an eclectic overview of services marketing by including papers that demonstrate the breadth and depth of research in this area, and it reflects the international scope and the strength of the discipline as we enter the new millennium.

Handbook of Politics
Handbook of Politics

Author: Kevin T. Leicht

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-28

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 0387689303

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Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces. Political sociologists increasingly use a wide variety of relatively new quantitative and qualitative methodologies and incorporate theories and research from other social science cognate disciplines. The contributors focus on the current controversies and disagreements surrounding the use of different methodologies for the study of politics and society, and discussions of specific applications found in the widely scattered literature where substantive research in the field is published. This approach will solidly place the handbook in a market niche that is not occupied by the current volumes while also covering many of the same theoretical and historical developments that the other volumes cover. The purpose of this handbook is to summarize state-of-the-art theory, research, and methods used in the study of politics and society. This area of research encompasses a wide variety of perspectives and methods that span social science disciplines. The handbook is designed to reflect that diversity in content, method and focus. In addition, it will cover developments in the developed and underdeveloped worlds.