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A Theoretical and Practical Contribution to Supply Chain Robustness

Developing a Schema for Robustness in Dyads

By: Durach, Christian F.

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A Theoretical and Practical Contribution to Supply Chain Robustness

Developing a Schema for Robustness in Dyads

By: Durach, Christian F.

In dieser Doktorarbeit werden vier individuelle Untersuchungen im Bereich der Supply Chain Robustheit durchgeführt. Das übergeordnete Ziel dieser ist die Entwicklung eines konzeptionellen Rahmens der Supply Chain Robustheit. Dafür wird aktuelle Literatur in diesem Forschungsfeld zusammengeführt und ein Schema mit Bestimmungsfaktoren zur Erhöhung von Robustheit in Käufer-Lieferantenbeziehungen entwickelt. Motivation für diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit ist ein beobachteter Anstieg von Unterbrechungen in Supply Chains sowie eine weiterhin anhaltende Outsourcing-Tendenz und die dadurch wachsende Bedeutung von Beziehungen in Supply Chains. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei Literaturstudien sowie zwei empirische Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Erstens wird die Methode der ‚Systematic Literature Reviews‘ für das Forschungsgebiet des Supply Chain Managements überarbeitet. Zweitens erfolgt die Entwicklung eines konzeptionellen Rahmens sowie eine Definition des Konstruktes Supply Chain Robustheit. Drittens werden Bestimmungsfaktoren zur Schaffungen von Robustheit in Käufer-Lieferantenbeziehungen identifiziert und in einem vierten Schritt validiert. This doctoral thesis develops four individual research studies on supply chain robustness. The overall goal of these studies is to develop a conceptual framework of supply chain robustness by consolidating current literature in the field, and, drawing on that framework, to construct a schema of determinants that facilitate robustness in buyer-supplier relationships. This research is motivated by an observed increase of supply chain disruptions, as well as an increasing trend towards outsourcing and a subsequent rise in the importance of supply chain relationships. It methodologically builds on two literature studies and two empirical studies. The thesis develops refined methodology guidelines for conducting literature reviews in supply chain management, proposes a conceptual framework for supply chain robustness putting forward a formal definition of the construct, and identifies and validates four relational determinants that facilitate robustness against disruptions in buyer-supplier relationships.

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Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin

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3798328129

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All the Water the Law Allows

Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

By: Christian S. Harrison

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All the Water the Law Allows

Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

By: Christian S. Harrison

As the population of the greater Las Vegas area grows and the climate warms, the threat of a water shortage looms over southern Nevada. But as Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that governs water allocation from the Colorado River. In this political and legal history of the Las Vegas water supply, Harrison focuses on the creation and actions of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to tell a story with profound implications and important lessons for water politics and natural resource policy in the twenty-first century. In the state with the smallest allocation of the Colorado’s water supply, Las Vegas faces the twin challenges of aridity and federal law to obtain water for its ever-expanding population. All the Water the Law Allows describes how the impending threat of shortage in the 1980s compelled the five metropolitan water agencies of greater Las Vegas to unify into a single entity. Harrison relates the circumstances of the SNWA’s evolution and reveals how the unification of local, county, and state interests allowed the compact to address regional water policy with greater force and focus than any of its peers in the Colorado River Basin. Most notably, the SNWA has mapped conservation plans that have drastically reduced local water consumption; and, in the interstate realm, it has been at the center of groundbreaking, water-sharing agreements. Yet these achievements do not challenge the fundamental primacy of the Law of the River. If current trends continue and the Basin States are compelled to reassess the river’s distribution, the SNWA will be a force and a model for the Basin as a whole.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806176881

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9780806176888

Collateral Circulation of the Heart

By: Christian Seiler

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Collateral Circulation of the Heart

By: Christian Seiler

The sober explanation for this book is a call by the Springer-Verlag, London, to edit a publication on ‘The functional relevance of the collateral circulation’ of the heart. Alternatively, it could be ‘sold’ as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of the coronary circulation, which was itself meant to diminish the amount of ‘useless’ energy. Such a process of reducing disarray in a system with the aim of grasping it better is related to simplification, which carries the risk of introducing error. This can be exemplified by the historic view of angina pectoris, which used to be simplified as being always fatal, thus obscuring for nearly two centuries the view of a ‘self-healing’ mechanism such as the collateral circulation of the heart. It would be na? ̈ve, to assume the present work to be free of erroneous oversimplification, because the very nature of scientific work is related to generating (simple) hypotheses with their subsequent falsification. In that context and bluntly, my primary interest in the field of the collateral circulation was not initiated with a vision of eradicating the consequences of coronary artery disease (CAD) by promoting the growth of natural bypasses. The time for such sizeable ideas had passed in the 1970s with the start of the work by Wolfgang Schaper.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1848823428

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Preposterous Virgil

Reading through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

By: Juan Christian Pellicer

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Preposterous Virgil

Reading through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney

By: Juan Christian Pellicer

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil's texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil's works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil's texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350198234

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Video in Qualitative Research

By: Christian Heath,Jon Hindmarsh,Paul Luff

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Video in Qualitative Research

By: Christian Heath,Jon Hindmarsh,Paul Luff

Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. Video in Qualitative Research provides practical guidance for students and academics on how to use video in qualitative research, how to address the problems and issues that arise in undertaking video-based field studies and how to subject video recordings to detailed scrutiny and analysis. Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff consider the ethical and practical issues that arise in recording and gathering data as well as how video enables new and distinctive ways of presenting insights, observations and findings to both academic and practitioner audiences. The book is illustrated throughout with a wide range of case material drawn from the authors own research projects, and these cases serve to situate the practical and methodological guidance offered by the book into real research scenarios. Video in Qualitative Research is an invaluable guide for students and researchers across the social sciences thinking of using video as part of their research. Christian Heath is Professor of Work and Organisation, Kings College London Jon Hindmarsh is Reader in Work Practice and Technology, Kings College London Paul Luff is Professor in Organisations and Technology, Kings College London

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SAGE

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1446246698

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Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts

Überlegungen zum Spätwerk des Horaz

By: Hans-Christian Günther

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Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts

Überlegungen zum Spätwerk des Horaz

By: Hans-Christian Günther

Starting from some central texts of Horace's late poetry this book tries to offer a general picture of Horace's poetry, his political poetry and his relationship with his patrons in particular. It offers a large variety of comparative material from modern literature and is aimed not only at classicists, but at students of literature and history in general. All quotations from Greek and Latin texts are translated.

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BRILL

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9047444108

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Defining Magic

A Reader

By: Bernd-Christian Otto,Michael Stausberg

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Defining Magic

A Reader

By: Bernd-Christian Otto,Michael Stausberg

Magic has been an important term in Western history and continues to be an essential topic in the modern academic study of religion, anthropology, sociology, and cultural history. Defining Magic is the first volume to assemble key texts that aim at determining the nature of magic, establish its boundaries and key features, and explain its working. The reader brings together seminal writings from antiquity to today. The texts have been selected on the strength of their success in defining magic as a category, their impact on future scholarship, and their originality. The writings are divided into chronological sections and each essay is separately introduced for student readers. Together, these texts - from Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, and Anthropology - reveal the breadth of critical approaches and responses to defining what is magic. CONTRIBUTORS: Aquinas, Augustine, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Dennis Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Edward Evans-Pritchard, James Frazer, Susan Greenwood, Robin Horton, Edmund Leach, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Christopher Lehrich, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Mauss, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Plato, Pliny, Plotin, Isidore of Sevilla, Jesper Sorensen, Kimberley Stratton, Randall Styers, Edward Tylor

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Routledge

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1317545036

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9781317545033

All the Water the Law Allows

Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

By: Christian S. Harrison

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Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

By: Christian S. Harrison

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0806176903

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Book's by Christian S. Harrison

A Theoretical and Practical Contribution to Supply Chain Robustness

A Theoretical and Practical Contribution to Supply Chain Robustness

All the Water the Law Allows

All the Water the Law Allows

Collateral Circulation of the Heart

Collateral Circulation of the Heart

Preposterous Virgil

Preposterous Virgil

Video in Qualitative Research

Video in Qualitative Research

Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts

Die Ästhetik der augusteischen Dichtung: Eine Ästhetik des Verzichts

Defining Magic

Defining Magic

All the Water the Law Allows

All the Water the Law Allows

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