Wissenschaftliche Literatur Methods

Mirjam Bon Klanjšček / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Darjo Felda

Statistical Literacy Among Secondary School Students

Achieving a Higher Level of Statistical Literacy

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The statistical education should be in step with modern didactic trends, which recommend the use of statistics in relation to everyday life and thus develop and improve statistical literacy. But as statistics is made part of mathematics instruction, solving statistical problems tends to be dominated by mathematical thinking, emphasizing mathematical models, methods and procedures, with the techniques being more important than the statistical problem itself. There is not…

Sebastian Zurheide

Revenue Management in Liner Shipping

Logistik-Management in Forschung und Praxis

In the recent past, the liner shipping industry has taken many steps to create a more suitable environment for the use of revenue management methods. More reliable services, daily services, or loading protection fees improve the service for the customer and offer segmentation options for the carriers. Hence, different booking classes can be created with different service values for the customers, and revenue management methods can be used as decision support for the…

Tobias Wickern

Multiple Testing Problems in the Context of Modern Portfolio Theory

Finanzmanagement

A multiple testing problem occurs when two or more related null hypotheses are tested simultaneously. The classical significance level, which refers to the type I error of an individual test problem, is not suitable for testing a family of hypotheses. This is due to the fact that more than one true null hypothesis may erroneously be rejected. Several approaches to error control taking account of the multiplicity problem have been proposed. The focus of the present work is…

Benjamin Albrecht

Decision-Making Under Risk and Ambiguity

An Investigation of Risk Behavior in Different Financial Situations and a Search for Relevant Personality Traits

Schriften zur differenziellen Psychologie

In our daily life, we have many things to decide. These decisions include more or less risk. Many situations where we have to decide between different options are financial decisions. Such financial decisions include the risk to lose or the possibility to win money. But what are the psychological factors which influence decisions in such financial situations Are there personality traits which make people take greater risks? Can we detect critical neuronal patterns which…

Sandra Hake

Sprachliche Gestaltung interaktiver Kundenkommunikation

Eine empirische Analyse am Beispiel der Mobilfunkbranche

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

Die Kommunikation zwischen Unternehmen und Kunde ist für die Bildung und die Aufrechterhaltung von Geschäftsbeziehungen von essentieller Bedeutung. Zur individuellen und personalisierten Kommunikation sind Dialogmedien sehr gut geeignet, da sie die bei massenmedialer Ansprache auftretende Informationsüberfrachtung der Kunden gezielt umgehen.

Hier haben insbesondere Call-Center in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. In dieser Branche waren im Jahr 2011 in…

Dominik Böhnlein

Multi-Agent-Based Vehicle Routing in the Newspaper Industry

Concept, Solution Methods and Implementation

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Auf Grund der aktuellen Entwicklungen im Transportsektor sehen sich Unternehmen neuen Herausforderungen gegenübergestellt. Hauptaspekte dieser Entwicklung sind steigende Kosten, steigende Anforderungen seitens der Kunden und der Bedarf ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit. Die steigenden Kosten begründen sich auf dem steigenden Ölpreis, den Mautgebühren und den Strafkosten für Lieferverspätungen. Letzteres steht in direktem Zusammenhang zu steigenden Kundenanforderungen: Der…

David Yakubu Anambam

Added Value of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Non-Traditional Export Products in the Agricultural Sector of Ghana

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Ghana just like most developing countries is facing the challenge of how to deal with high poverty rates coupled with declining prices of traditional export products. The export of non-traditional export products in the agricultural sector is considered as one of the strategies to address poverty. However, concerns are been raised about the free trade policy, stating that free trade may not necessarily be benefiting all participants equally. In other words, other nations,…

Mathias Kube

The Economics of Open Innovation

Essays on Private and Public Actors in Systems of Innovation

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

In today‘s globalized world innovation plays a major role. For states, the generation of new knowledge through innovations impacts the economic development and the standard of living. For companies, innovation is crucial to achieve competitive advantage. Specifically the concept of Open Innovation has been advocated to improve innovative performance. This book explores the economics of Open Innovation in ‘Systems of Innovation‘ and related opportunities with a focus on…

Henrik Heitmann

Selected Scheduling Applications

QM – Quantitative Methoden in Forschung und Praxis

The first chapter is dedicated to a general introduction into scheduling. Among the basic concepts in scheduling, machine scheduling, general methodologies for solving scheduling problems, scheduling formulations and definitions in computational complexity are illustrated. The first chapter ends with a brief synopsis.

In chapter 2, the yard crane scheduling and routing problem is addressed. More precisely, it is focussed on the job scheduling and crane routing…

Christof Wiechers

Optimization and Diversification of Risky Portfolios under Uncertainty

Finanzmanagement

This work presents various extensions in the field of portfolio optimization from the statistical point of view. An investor wants to allocate his wealth among different risky assets and has historic price information about these assets as the only source of information. This historic information is only partially reliable as indicator for the future development of the assets’ return characteristics, as both economic fluctuation and return parameters may change over time.…