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Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players
In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situation of conflict and non-participation of the players in the network design process. The supply chain players’ non-participation or...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2017
Y a-t-il assez de réserves forestières en Suisse ?: : une évaluation contingente
Les auteurs mènent une évaluation contingente sur un échantillon représentatif de la population pour estimer la disponibilité à payer (DAP) pour un programme de création de nouvelles réserves forestières en Suisse. Le scénario prévoit des restrictions d’accès aux zones forestières en question, raison pour laquelle l’analyse porte essentiellement sur les valeurs de non-usage, en...
Institution partenaire
Français / 12/06/2017
Y a-t-il assez de réserves forestières en Suisse ? ::une évaluation contingente
Les auteurs mènent une évaluation contingente sur un échantillon représentatif de la population pour estimer la disponibilité à payer (DAP) pour un programme de création de nouvelles réserves forestières en Suisse. Le scénario prévoit des restrictions d’accès aux zones forestières en question, raison pour laquelle l’analyse porte essentiellement sur les valeurs de non-usage, en...
Institution partenaire
Français / 12/06/2017
A live-case lite approach as formative assessment
Written case studies have been widely used in marketing. This method presents some shortcomings. We have suggested an approach employing a version of live case studies involving managers of a local company as formative evaluators contributing to an iterative and formalized formative assessment process. This approach may add some interesting features such as presenting a more...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/06/2017
Management et culture du risque de crédit dans les banques tunisiennes
Institution partenaire
Français / 02/06/2017
Taming the beast: : a scientific definition of fintech
There is currently no consensus about what the term Fintech means. This paper explores the complexity of Fintech, and attempts a definition, drawn from a process of reviewing more than 200 scholarly articles referencing the term Fintech and covering a period of more than 40 years. The objective of this study is to offer a definition which is distinct as well as succinct in its...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/06/2017
The geo-economics of global cities: exploring new avenues for expanding business internationalization
This chapter explores new advances and possible added value to the geo-economic study of global cities from an international business and corporate management perspective. First, this chapter reviews existing literature and knowledge, which reveals that the economic intermediation role of global cities has been mainly studied in terms of localization of transnational corporations (...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/06/2017
Meeting real world demands of the global economy: : an employer’s perspective
Educational programs prepare students theoretically for the workplace, but many programs are still lacking in the real-world skills that the workplace requires. This is especially evident in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education where today’s graduates hold a fundamental role in advancing science, medicine, sustainability, national security, and the economy, yet...
Institution partenaire
English / 12/05/2017
Green taxes in a post-Paris world: : are millions of nays inevitable?
Turning the Paris Agreement’s greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
Green taxes in a post-Paris world ::are millions of nays inevitable?
Turning the Paris Agreement’s greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
Carbon pricing in climate policy: : seven reasons, complementary instruments, and political economy considerations
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years. As there is still much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers. Here, we present the main arguments for carbon pricing,...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
Carbon pricing in climate policy ::seven reasons, complementary instruments, and political economy considerations
Carbon pricing is a recurrent theme in debates on climate policy. Discarded at the 2009 COP in Copenhagen, it remained part of deliberations for a climate agreement in subsequent years. As there is still much misunderstanding about the many reasons to implement a global carbon price, ideological resistance against it prospers. Here, we present the main arguments for carbon pricing,...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/05/2017
Moving up the learning curve: preparing next generation educators for the next generation higher education classroom
The research presented in this paper reports on making change happen and the challenge of tuming educators into change agents. The project is being carried out at the University of Applied Sciences & Arts Wester Switzerland, where there are over 20'000 students. lt is an action research project related to the inclusion of technology in the higher education classroom to add...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/05/2017
Evolving paradigms: methods of delivery and teaching philosophies for a digital age
Education and the way it is delivered is undergoing profound change. The advent of digital technologies and their increasingly ubiquitous nature has not only educators, but students and administrators alike, on the shifting sands of paradigms in transition. In addition to this, there is a certain amount of conjecture about what is actually happening on the ground. This paper presents...
Institution partenaire
English / 05/05/2017
New performance indicators for restaurant revenue management: : proPASH and proPASM
Institution partenaire
English / 28/04/2017
McHealthy: : how marketing incentives influence healthy food choices
Food choices are often habitual, which can perpetuate unhealthy behaviors; i.e., selection of foods high in sodium, saturated fat, and calories. This paper extends previous research by examining how marketing incentives can encourage healthy food choices. Building on research examining marketing incentives, temporal goals, and habitual behavior, this research shows that certain...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/04/2017
Building brand relationship quality among hotel loyalty program members
Institution partenaire
English / 28/04/2017
Art and design as linked data ::the LODZ project (Linked Open Data Zurich)
The project LODZ (Linked Open Data Zurich) adopts an experimental approach to merge data and develop a semantic web infrastructure to enable its discovery. For this purpose, three institutions in the field of art and design provided their metadata. The project cycle followed six steps: team building, gathering and cleaning of the original data, modelling, transforming, interlinking...
Institution partenaire
English / 24/04/2017
The Swiss market for construction wood: : estimating elasticities with time series simultaneous equations
Nous estimons les élasticités-prix et élasticités croisées de l’offre et de la demande sur le marché suisse pour le bois brut de construction entre 1949 et 2013. Grâce au modèle à correction d’erreurs, nous considérons les relations de long terme et de court terme et utilisons un système d’équation offre-demande pour tenir compte de l’endogénéité du prix. L’importance de la...
Institution partenaire
English / 18/04/2017
Should I stay or should I switch ?: an analysis of transitions between modes of vocational education and training
How established is the horizontal permeability between modes of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland? Formally encouraged by the Swiss law on VET, horizontal permeability refers to transitions across VET modes, i.e. between dual and school-based VET. This paper first discusses why horizontal permeability is indeed relevant and then empirically examines the...
Institution partenaire
English / 13/04/2017
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