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- Pricing of Convertible Bonds With Hard Call Features
- This paper discusses the development of a valuation model for convertible bonds with hard call features. It defines a hard call feature as the possibility for the issuer to redeem a convertible bond before maturity by paying the call price to the bondholder. It uses the binomial approach to model...
- White papers 2003-03-12
- Productivity Differentials In The U.S. And EU Distributive Trade Sector: Statistical Myth Or Reality?
- This paper assesses whether productivity growth differentials between the U.S. and Europe in the distributive trade sector are real or mainly a statistical myth. New estimates of retail trade productivity are constructed, taking into account purchase prices of goods sold. U.S. wholesale productivity growth was also adjusted for the upward...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment And Trade In China
- MultiNational Enterprises MNEs play a dominant role in the International Business IB literature. Traditionally, by far the majority of IB studies deal with issues at the micro level of the individual MNE, or at the meso level of a sample of individual MNEs. This paper focuses on a macro-level issue:...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- The Role Of Critical Incidents In Managing Supplier Relations
- Purchasing managers do things different from the text books we claim they should follow or even they claim to follow. Critical incidents play a role in changing their set of recipes applied in certain situations. In order to understand the role of critical incidents, this paper looks at the cause...
- White papers 2004-04-03
- A Simulation Environment for the Redesign of Food Supply Chain Networks: Modeling Quality Controlled Logistics
- Many industries are confronted with intensified global competition as well as advances in information and process technology. They create both the need and opportunity for a coordinated approach of industrial partners to establish effective and efficient supply chains. Simulation tools are often used for supporting decision-making on supply chain redesign,...
- White papers 2005-11-08
- A Unified Theory of Market Partitioning: An Integration of Resource-Partitioning and Sunk Cost Theories
- This paper's objective is to integrate sociology's and economics' theories of market partitioning into a unifying framework: Glenn Carroll's resource-partitioning and John Sutton's sunk cost theories, respectively. In so doing, two important theory fragments from organizational ecology and industrial organization are integrated in an attempt to understand the antecedents and...
- White papers 2003-06-26
- Concept of Total Quality Management
- This report focuses on the identification of the concept of TQM on the basis of the literature review. It presents the concept of TQM from quality gurus. The report also describes the three well recognized quality award models. The paper discusses the TQM concept from a number of researchers in...
- White papers 2001-02-19
- IPO-Related Organizational Change and Long-Term Performance
- This article presents the idea that in many companies the preparation for the IPO and the IPO itself may bring organizational change. The research shows that an IPO primarily changes financial management and financial reporting, but that other types of organizational change may also be relevant. Moreover, long-term stock market...
- White papers 2000-07-18
- Reporting on Intellectual Capital
- The paper analyses the various reporting models recently being developed and used in practice. Moreover, the existing reporting models have been discussed in-depth with the management of three Dutch companies with a high degree of IC and with four financial analysts as external users of the information. The paper describes...
- White papers 2001-11-09
- Economic and Accounting Rates of Return
- The rate of return on invested capital is a central concept in financial analysis. Financial statement users make regular use of the accounting rate of return ARR rather than the economic rate of return IRR to assess the performance of corporations and public-sector enterprises, to evaluate capital investment projects, and...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Modeling the Marketing Strategy-Performance Relationship: Towards an Hierarchical Marketing Performance Framework
- Accurate measurement of marketing performance is an important topic for both marketing academics and marketing managers. Many researchers have recognized that marketing performance measurement should go beyond financial measurement. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that models marketing performance as a sequence of intermediate performance measures ultimately leading to financial...
- White papers 2002-03-07
- Market-Oriented Product Development as an Organizational Learning Capability: Findings From Two Cases
- Conceptualizing market orientation at the level of the product development process is relevant, because market orientation is a highly critical factor for new product success and this conceptualization can be used as a starting-point to transform the whole organization into a more market oriented one. Market-oriented product development appears to...
- White papers 2002-04-09
- Asset Liability Management Modeling Using Multistage Mixed-Integer Stochastic Programming
- A pension fund has to match the portfolio of long-term liabilities with the portfolio of assets. Key instruments in strategic Asset Liability Management ALM are the adjustments of the contribution rate of the sponsor and the reallocation of the investments in several asset classes at various points of time. This...
- White papers 2000-09-01
- ICT And Productivity In Europe And The United States Where Do The Differences Come From?
- The surge in labour productivity growth in the United States in the late 1990s has prompted much speculation about the capacity of Information and Communication Technologies ICT to structurally increase growth. The simultaneous slowdown in productivity growth in the EU suggests the European countries are falling behind. In this paper...
- White papers 2003-05-01
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- Philips, Dutch University Claim Breakthrough in Plastic Electronics (Electronic News)
- Scientists from Philips Research and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands say they have for the first time fabricated arrays of molecular diodes on standard substrates with high yields that could be a promising next step in plastic electro Scientists from Philips Research and...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Vanderjagt, Arjo and Klass van Berkel , The Book of Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Vanderjagt, Arjo and Klass van Berkel ed, The Book of Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 16: Leuven, Paris and Dudley MA, Peeters, 2005) hardback; xiii-188 pages; RRP 45 [euro]; ISBN 9789042916227 This volume of 12 papers arises from the...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Echelon and Hanze University Project Wins European Utility Award
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON), a leading provider of networking technology that is used to manage and reduce energy consumption, announced that its energy management project with Hanze University of Groningen in the Netherlands won the Business Performance Category of the European Utility Award at last week's Metering,...
- Research articles 2007-10-12
- Molecular electronics gel in a jar.
- by Matthew Miller Researchers from Philips Research and the University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands) have developed a molecular self-assembly process that reliably produces arrays of 1.5-nm-thick molecular diodes on standard substra by Matthew Miller ...
- Research articles 2006-07-20
- Wijers, Hans 1951–
- Hans Wijers 1951– Chairman of the board, Akzo Nobel Nationality: Dutch.Born: January 11, 1951, in Oostburg, Netherlands.Education: University of Groningen, MA, 1976; Erasmus University of Rotterdam, PhD, 1982.Career: Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1976–1982, assistant professor of economics; Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, 1982–1984, worked for think tanks; Bakkenist,...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Proposed new member of Royal DSM N.V. Supervisory Board
- DSM proposes appointing Mrs Louise Gunning-Schepers as a member of its Supervisory Board. Mrs Gunning (56, Dutch nationality) is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam and Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. She studied medicine and...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
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