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The authors analyse the New Economy from a scientific point of view. The success and the failure of enterprises of the new economy form a challenge to the modern business management and to the theory of the firm. This conference transcript answers the question in which way well-established concepts of the theory of the firm should be modified or new approaches should be created, in...

How firms build new capabilities to adapt to changing environments is at the core of strategic management. However, research has addressed this question only recently. In this paper, I propose a model that describes how firms develop a capability to create and develop ventures through corporate venture capital, alliances, and acquisitions. The model is based on two longitudinal case...

In this paper we analyze strategic transfer pricing with risk- and effort-averse divisional managers. In contrast to earlier literature, we find that the existence of a standard agency problem allows transfer pricing to serve as a commitment device even if the transfer prices are not mutually observable. The reason is that transfer prices are set above marginal cost to solve the...

Handelsleistungen werden immer komplexer und austauschbar. Die Angebotsfülle verwirrt und überfordert die Käufer. ""Consumer Confusion"" macht sich breit. Die Folge: sinkender Umsatz bei den Anbietern. Die Autoren beschreiben, wie sich mit dem von ihnen entwickelten Consumer Confusion Radar konkrete Ursachen dieser "Käuferverwirrung" identifizieren...