This paper focuses on product portfolio management in a large multinational medical device organisation. The contribution of this research is to provide insights into the nature, composition and decision making processes of product portfolios in a real world setting. The research is important because portfolio management decisions have a significant impact and influence the performance at each ...

Most of the existing multiple criteria decision-making methods handle one kind of the information imperfections at the same time. Stochastic methods and fuzzy methods constitute typical examples of these methods. However, several multiple criteria modelizations include simultaneously many kinds of the information imperfections. In this work, we propose a multiple criteria aggregation procedure ...

Mit dem Urteil vom 3. März 2009 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die bislang in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland eingesetzten Wahlgeräte für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Grund für dieses Urteil war die fehlende Umsetzung des Prinzips der Öffentlichkeit der Wahl. Mit dem Urteil erklärte das Gericht jedoch nicht grundsätzlich den Einsatz elektronischer Wahlgeräte für verfassungswidrig. Im Rahmen des ...

In a recent review paper, Adriaenssens et al. (2015) cluded that about 26% of emergency nurses (EN) suffer burnout and described their results as alarming. ile we applaud Adriaenssens et al.’s efforts to provide a rer picture of ill-health in EN, we think that these hors’ conclusions are weakened by a fundamental fact, ely, the absence of consensual, clinically valid gnostic criteria for burnou...