Bøger af Peter Bogetoft

Including detailed instructions for using the latest data envelopment and stochastic frontier methods of analysis in benchmarking, this book by the leading expert in the field brings his expertise to bear in an accessible treatment of leading-edge techniques.

Planning in a general sense is concerned with the design of communication and decision making mechanisms in organizations where information and choice are decentralized.

This book covers recent advances in efficiency evaluations, particularly data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) methods. It introduces the underlying theories, demonstrates the necessary calculations and discusses applications.

A practical perspective on tackling the complex planning problems characterized by multiple criteria or measures of performance. It introduces basic notions of how and why we plan, both as individuals and within organizations, and provides guidelines for choosing between alternative actions.

Cooperatives and cooperative payment schemes, cost and profit sharing rules, are found in all sectors of society - including law and consultancy, insurance and finance, health, housing, utility, and, of course, in agriculture. The book develops an economic framework for assessing different cooperative payment schemes. First, a number of relevant criteria (properties) are defined, then the book analyses how well different schemes fulfil these criteria under alternative production and market conditions. The book is aimed at professionals involved in the design and use of payment schemes as well as students and researchers at universities. The book includes a number of practical examples from the agro-industrial sector. The criteria and schemes are also illustrated with simple numerical examples and graphics. For the more technically minded, there are specially highlighted sections containing formalised mathematical presentations.

In this book, the authors allow theory and practice to interact. They develop a holistic theoretical framework for contract analysis based on coordination theory, transaction cost theory and principal agent theory. This framework is used to analyze existing contracts. Actual contracts can be just as advanced as recent progress in contract theory. The ingenuity varies considerably between contracts, however, and contracts typically evolve through costly trial-and-error processes. Hence, learning from best practices and a theory-based approach, can improve contract design. The book is aimed at decision-makers, students and researchers. Decision-makers can use the analytical framework and the synthesis of contracting practices to evaluate contracts. Students can use the book as an introduction to applied contract theory. Researchers will be inspired by the interaction between contract theory and contracting.