Managing in Uncertainty: Theory and Practice

This book provides a new point of view on the subject of the management of uncertainty. It covers a wide variety of both theoretical and practical issues involving the analysis and management of uncertainty in the fields of finance, management and marketing. Audience: Researchers and professionals f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zopounidis, Constantin, Pardalos, Panos M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Applied Optimization
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Implementation of a performance measurement framework in Greek manufacture: An empirical research
  • Dialectic approach of risks’ perception (the case of prefecture of Thessaloniki)
  • Investigation of the urban risk system of Thessaloniki’s city complex
  • Manager motivation facing the imponderable of uncertainty
  • Application of multivariate techniques to assess the relationship between organizational culture and innovation process
  • The establishment of cooperative agreements among SMEs: An appropriate way to reduce uncertainty
  • Firms facing uncertainty: The cooperation option
  • Social economy organizations in a world in transition
  • Total quality management in action: Implementing ways in Spanish companies
  • Budgetary control based on activities cost, total quality and ISO 9000 norms
  • Causes of changes in top management
  • Part-time work in Europe: A review of major trends
  • Unknown loss in Spain: Concern about the distribution sector
  • Author Index
  • A review of country risk assessment approaches: New empirical evidence
  • Political risk and stock market development
  • Construction of a simplified index of country risk: The case of Europe
  • The importance of order for the decision in uncertainty
  • Business and economic education — criteria for choice of studies and student expectations
  • Chaotic oscillations in real economic time series data: Evaluation of logistic model fit and forecasting performance
  • Evaluation of a neuro-fuzzy scheme forecasting exchange rates
  • Economics of energy and treatment of uncertainty to incorporate environmental considerations in investment decisions
  • Mergers in the Spanish savings banks and their presence in the market: A cause-effect analysis on an autonomous scale
  • On distributions for stock returns: A survey of empirical investigations
  • A case study of use of artificial options in the Athens Stock Exchange
  • Multicriteria decision aid in credit cards assessment
  • Memory-based advertising effectiveness techniques: Recall versus recognition
  • Controlling uncertainty in a Spanish national and European setting faced with illicit advertising
  • Theory and practice about risk in the incorrect management associations between store image and private label products in Spanish supermarkets
  • The effectiveness of the shopwindow and its relationship with the types of consumer purchase. An empirical study
  • Identifying consumer’s preferences using artificial neural network techniques
  • Market simulations via rule induction: A machine learning approach
  • Artificial neural networks systems for multiple criteria decision making
  • Study of determinant factors in the associationism of the franchisors in Spain
  • Franchising: All around the world
  • Forecasting in marketing planning. Forecastingperformance of the logistic model and applications of S-4 model