Publications des institutions partenaires
Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises as Private Actors in Global Governance – Evidence from the Textile Industry
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Downsizing, ideology and contracts: A Chinese perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The production of entrepreneurial opportunity: A constructivist perspective
This article presents a conceptual model of entrepreneurial opportunity production from a constructivist perspective. The model assumes that opportunity production proceeds through several stages, including conceptualization of an opportunity idea by an entrepreneur, objectification of that idea, and enactment of the opportunity into a new venture. However, not all opportunity ideas…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Unmastered Risks: From Crisis to Catastrophe. An Economic and Management Insight
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Discussion of decentralized capacity management and internal pricing
Dutta and Reichelstein (2010) study the role of transfer pricing and organizational choice in providing incentives for efficient decisions on the acquisition and subsequent reallocation of capacity within decentralized firms. Their analysis suggests that transfer prices based on the historical cost of capacity facilitate the efficient allocation of resources. They also find that…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Discussion of decentralized capacity management and internal pricing
Dutta and Reichelstein (2010) study the role of transfer pricing and organizational choice in providing incentives for efficient decisions on the acquisition and subsequent reallocation of capacity within decentralized firms. Their analysis suggests that transfer prices based on the historical cost of capacity facilitate the efficient allocation of resources. They also find that…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Optimal precision of accounting information in debt financing
This paper studies qualitative characteristics of accounting systems that are used in debt financing. We consider a financially constrained firm that provides to lenders information on the value of assets that serve as collateral in a financing contract for a risky investment project. We find that the investor prefers an accounting system that provides biased signals about the value…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Optimal precision of accounting information in debt financing
This paper studies qualitative characteristics of accounting systems that are used in debt financing. We consider a financially constrained firm that provides to lenders information on the value of assets that serve as collateral in a financing contract for a risky investment project. We find that the investor prefers an accounting system that provides biased signals about the value…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Managerial applicability of graphical formats to support positioning decisions
Issues of segmentation and positioning have always been at the heart of marketing management. In recent years, much methodological progress has been made in order to carry out these two tasks simultaneously, that is, to combine certain types of clustering algorithms with appropriate multidimensional scaling or unfolding procedures. When trying to provide managers with a tool to…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Geographical Information Systems–based marketing decisions: effects of alternative visualizations on decision quality
Data visualization aids have become popular tools to assist managerial decision making in marketing. For example, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are often used to identify suitable retail locations, regional distributions for advertising campaigns, or targeting of direct marketing activities. GIS-based visualizations facilitate the assessment of store locations and help…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
New metrics for evaluating preference maps
Preference maps provide a visual representation of market structure, usually depicting brand or product alternatives, product attributes, and customers in a single graphic. Using measures of consideration and attribute sets to establish criterion validity, we develop a set of metrics that can be interpreted by managers and that allow managers to evaluate maps based on their ability…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Kish - where customers pay as THEY wish
New restaurants often do not manage to succeed within a reasonable amount of time. Exotic restaurants especially face the problem that price promotions may not attract new customers because prospective customers might associate very low prices for unfamiliar food with a high
functional risk. This paper describes how Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW), a new pricing mechanism, was…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
How storefront displays influence retail store image
The image of retail stores offers an important means for differentiation in highly competitive retail markets. Storefront displays generally function to increase attention to the store or generate unplanned store visits, whereas their impact on store image remains unknown. This study therefore investigates perceived image differences between commonly used types of storefront displays…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations: A Micro-Econometric Analysis of their Determinants
Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of R&D activities,…
Institution partenaire
English / 11/09/2009
Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations: An Empirical Analysis for German Firms
Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of R&D activities,…
Institution partenaire
English / 02/07/2009
A model of corporate sustainability
The discussion of corporate sustainability (CS) is hindered by a lack of definitional clarity of the concept of CS and neighboring concepts. Therefore in this paper a framework of corporate sustainability is construdted from information derived from guidelines concerning corporate sustainability. Within this framework, a differentiation between sustainability performance and its…
Institution partenaire
English / 02/07/2009
The unrecognized future dimension of corporate sustainability assessment
Companies play a central role on the way towards sustainable development. Over the last years, many approaches have emerged that attempt to measure companies’ contribution to sustainable development, i.e. corporate sustainability. Our analysis of existing approaches reveals two major shortcomings. First, value creation as a core condition for sustainability as well as for further…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/06/2009
Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship
Within the discussion of voluntary proactive approaches to environmental protection, former microeconometric studies analyze the causal effect of the adoption of environmental management systems (EMS) on technological environmental innovations and find some positive impacts. Based on empirical studies which consider the effect of general innovativeness on the adoption of voluntary…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2009
Entwicklungsländer bergen für Unternehmen Wachstumspotential
Auch in Schwellenländern kann Wachstum erzielt werden. Vorausgesetzt Firmen binden die Menschen in ihre Projekte ein und sind bereit, ihre Produkte und Prozesse anzupassen.
Institution partenaire
English / 20/05/2009
Consolidated financial statements: an integrated approach in compliance with national and international accounting standards
«Consolidated Financial Statements» is intended for accountants, auditors and university, polytechnic and executive students as well as other practitioners who are interested in gaining and understanding the subject.
This textbook concentrates on the theoretical and practical treatment of problems concerning consolidated financial statements, using an integrated and logical…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
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