infonet-economy

We compare the performance of a specifically designed feedforward artificial neural network with one layer of hidden units to the K-means clustering technique in solving the problem of cluster-based market segmentation. The data set analyzed consists of usages of brands (product category: household cleaners) in different usage situations. The proposed feedforward neural network model…

An artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm is proposed that incorporates both market segmentation and discriminant (regression) analysis of the segments. The method simultaneously estimates the models relating consumer characteristics to market segments, i.e., subjects are assigned to (unique) segments so that subjects within a class show similar purchase behavior and share the…

Das Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz wird die Aufarbeitung, Reparatur, Instandsetzung und Modernisierung von Investitionsgütern (Remanufacturing) vorantreiben und die
Strukturen des Gebrauchtmaschinenmarktes verändern. Unternehmen können auf diesem Markt nur dann erfolgreich sein, wenn sie ihre Strategie an diesen Veränderungen ausrichten.

This groundbreaking book discusses the significance of a microeconomic approach to the transformation process in Eastern Europe from a theoretical and empirical perspective. It reveals that microeconomic conditions constitute the framework for the successful restructuring and recovery of the post-socialist countries in Europe.

Die Antrittsvorlesung von PD Dr. Andrea Schenker-Wicki an der Hochschule St. Gallen ist auch für die Studierenden von aktueller Brisanz. Werden sie doch laufend gemessen, während die Leistung des Bildungsinstituts als ganzes oder gar einzelner Professoren im Bereich oft haltloser Einschätzung verbleibt. Neben studentischen Anliegen gibt es aber natürlich vorallem eine Reihe von…

Economic literature has proposed several incentive mechanisms in order to induce agents in divisionalized organizations to reveal their private information. Among these mechanisms the class of Groves mechanisms has the distinguishing property of implementing truthful reporting as an equilibrium in dominant strategies. However, critiques maintain that agents may collude and transmit…

This paper proposes a `re-construction' of organization studies in order to deal with the chronic incommensurability that characterizes the discipline. The paper begins by discussing the issue of incommensurability between organization studies schools of thought, arguing that it represents a significant problem with which the field must cope. Ambiguity of the key constructs that…