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Active Business Objects (ABOs): A novel paradigm for building (and using!) Business Information System

The ABO project aims in the design and development an agent platform where mobile agents represent business processes. These agents encapsulate the policies, business practices and models of different business activities (like order management, payroll, warehouse and stock control). The aim of ABO is to provide a new paradigm of Business Information System design and use.

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/1999

Moderne Prüfverfahren für komplexe Probleme. Evaluation und Performance Audits im Vergleich

Systeme im politischen, ökonomischen und ökologischen Bereich sind zunehmend vernetzt und dynamisch, häufig jedoch intransparent. Herkömmliche Prüfverfahren und klassische Instrumente wie die Betriebs- und Erfolgsrechnung genügen den neuen Anforderungen nicht. Andrea Schenker-Wicki stellt neben bekannten Prüfungsverfahren - wie Revision, Controlling und Benchmarking - Verfahren der...

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Deutsch / 01/01/1999

The impact of capacity costs on bidding strategies in procurement auctions

This paper analyzes the impact of capacity costs on bidding strategies of firms participating in procurement auctions. More efficient firms will invest in advance due to their high probability of winning the auction while less efficient bidders prefer to wait with their investments until the outcome of the auction is known. However, in equilibrium both types of firms include a...

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English / 01/01/1999

A performance comparison of strategic transfer pricing and tidy cost allocation in presence of product market competition and congestion costs

This paper compares the performance of transfer pricing and tidy cost allocations in a multiproduct firm in presence of output market competition and production externalities. In absence of competition, tidy cost allocations are creating inefficient allocations within the firm while transfer prices can always be adjusted to replicate the first best solution of the centralized firm....

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English / 01/01/1999

A performance comparison of strategic transfer pricing and tidy cost allocation in presence of product market competition and congestion costs

This paper compares the performance of transfer pricing and tidy cost allocations in a multiproduct firm in presence of output market competition and production externalities. In absence of competition, tidy cost allocations are creating inefficient allocations within the firm while transfer prices can always be adjusted to replicate the first best solution of the centralized firm....

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English / 01/01/1999

Economies Of Scale In The Swiss Nursing Home Industry

This paper examines costs in the Swiss nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosion of elderly care costs and the aging of the population. The paper considers estimation of a translog cost function employing panel data for a sample of 36 nonprofit nursing homes operating in Ticino, a canton of Switzerland, over the period 1993-1995. Using...

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English / 01/01/1999

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