The competitiveness of retail stores depends heavily on the ability to handle the challenges of reducing control costs and increasing customer service levels. One element that affects cost significantly is labour costs. This paper addresses proposing a procedure of finding the optimal solutions of personnel planning, especially by making use of the actual Point of Sales (POS) data and consideri...

This paper presents a model that complements the research stream of transaction cost economics with the dynamic capabilities approach. The paper shows that, even though technological alliances involving specific assets deployed in emerging industries are exposed to high transaction costs, they possess attributes that make them attractive. First, they facilitate the creation of tacit competencie...

BE N T DA L U M a , KE L D LA U R S E N b and BA R T VE R S P A G E N c , d (aThe IKE Group, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 4, 9220 Aalborg O, bDRUID, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School, Nansensgade 19.6, 1366 Copenhagen, Denmark, cEindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, PO Box 513, 5600 M...

This paper presents a new scheme for subdivision surfaces that is based on four-directional meshes. It combines geometry-sensitive refinement with convolution smoothing. The scheme has a simple, efficient implementation and generates well-shaped meshes which converge to smooth surfaces. keywords: subdivision schemes, four-directional meshes, quincunx lattice, refinenement, smoothing.