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Une étude relative à l'évolution des comités d'audit en Suisse a été menée conjointement par l'Institut für Accounting, Controlling und Auditing de l'Université de Saint-Gall et PwC. Plus de 500 entreprises ont été interrogées dans le cadre de cette étude. L'objectif des chercheurs de l'Université de Saint-Gall, professeur Thomas Berndt et Christian…

This paper uses a panel data set containing universities across eight European countries to model an output distance function and analyze the impact of three competitive funding types on the production frontier and the university effciency. We find little evidence for an effect of the budget share financed by tuition fees or private funds on the production frontier, but a…

When predicting the next outcome in a sequence of events, people often appear to expect streaky patterns, such as that sport players can develop a “hot hand,” even if the sequence is actually random. This expectation, referred to as positive recency, can be adaptive in environments characterized by resources that are clustered across space or time (e.g., expecting to find multiple…

In immer mehr Unternehmen gibt es einen Chief Strategy Officer. Die erste systematische Studie für den deutschsprachigen Raum zeigt, auf welche Kompetenzen es in diesem Job ankommt und wie Unternehmen die Rolle definieren.

We provide evidence that firms fail to properly adjust for risk in their valuation of investment projects, and that this behavior leads to value-destroying investment decisions. If managers tend to use a single discount rate within firms, we expect conglomerates to underinvest in relatively safe divisions, and to overinvest in risky ones. We measure division relative risk as the…

Operations Research Letters is a publication for literature on all aspects of operations research and the management and decision sciences. The features distinguishing it from other journals in the field are
* concise articles, generally limited to 6 journal pages
* rapid review and fast publication
* broad coverage of the literature.
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According to standard human capital theory, firm-financed training cannot be explained if the skills obtained are general in nature. Nevertheless, in German-speaking countries, firms invest heavily in apprenticeship training although the skills are assumed to be general. In our paper, we study the extent to which apprenticeship training is general at all and how specificity of…