infonet-economy

Bereits zum fünften Mal wird im Rahmen der Logistikmarktstudie Schweiz das wertmässige Volumen des Schweizerischen Marktes für Intralogistiklösungen bestimmt. Gegenstand der Erhebungen ist dabei das Volumen der in der Schweiz nachgefragten und angebotenen klassischen Investitionsprodukte der Intralogistik. Im Jahr 2014 beläuft sich das wertmässige Volumen des Schweizer...

Der Nutzen von E-Learning für die Weiterbildung im Rahmen der Management-Entwicklung wird zumeist nur aus Anbietersicht und im Bezug auf den materiellen oder immateriellen Leistungsgegenstand betrachtet. Aus einer Customer Value-Perspektive, die nach dem Wert der Kundenbeziehung aus Sicht des Leistungsempfängers fragt, erschliessen sich über den Sachwert hinaus Beiträge eines...

Selecting the right people for the right place the right way is vital to companies in the context of a fiercer war for talent nowadays. Many studies have shown that structured interviews have better predictive validity than unstructured interviews. Despite these repeated findings, most of the recruiters still prefer to use unstructured interviews notably because they allow more...

This article proposes a macroeconomic-oriented method to forecast hotel room demand in Switzerland for the period stretching from the third quarter of 1974 to the fourth quarter of 2013. The method increases accuracy by weighting characteristics of the inbound tourists’ economies for their relative contribution. It adopts the VECM technique, which produces reliable forecasts in both...

The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of airline passengers’ perception of service recovery on their satisfaction and loyalty. A questionnaire was distributed to airline passengers who had a problem during their last airline flight. As we had several latent variables, we used partial least squares (PLS), a variance-based structural equation modeling method. As...

Compared to the disputed rise of China in Africa, the emergence of India has been rather neglected. Facing a quasi-absence of reliable data and literature, this article makes an attempt to explore the expanding presence of India in Africa’s agro-food sector. Based on a preliminary collection of information in Eastern and Western Africa, the analysis suggests that India’s corporate...

This book is a compilation of recent articles written by leading academics and practitioners in the area of risk-based and factor investing (RBFI). The articles are intended to introduce readers to some of the latest, cutting edge research encountered by academics and professionals dealing with RBFI solutions. Together the authors detail both alternative non-return based portfolio...

Organisational control systems are a central phenomenon, yet despite their significance, top-down command-and-control approaches often dominate research. This surmise creates no problem in hierarchical organisations where everyone knows their work duties and what is expected of them. However, it becomes troublesome in knowledge work, where the sets of tasks carried out by any two...