This article offers reflections and insights on Management Communication Quarterly from a younger scholar in the field of organizational communication. After providing a brief history of the journal, topics of internationality, interdisciplinarity, and identity are explored. This is followed by a discussion among other “emerging scholars” in the field of organizational communication about these topics. The article concludes with a discussion about the role and format of Management Communication Quarterly in the digital age.
Innovations are rarely generated in complete isolation. Due to the inherent uncertainty, the manifold underlying knowledge base and high financial investments, firms seek to integrate external partners for the generation of new products and processes. However there is an ongoing debate whether firms, which develop their innovations in close cooperation with external partners, such as suppliers, customers and governmental research institutions, can benefit with respect to innovation performance in contrast to firms which cooperate less. This paper aims at investigating how diversity in cooperation partners effects the firms' output innovation performance in terms of generated sales with innovative products. To address this question the authors analyze a large-scale sample of microdata from Swiss firms derived from four waves (1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008) of the Swiss innovation survey data according to the European Community Innovation Survey, applying a panel data analysis. The findings suggest, that firms with a higher diversity in cooperation partners could benefit in generating new product innovations.
This is a well-written compendium of both classical and recent results on qualitative and quantitative stability of linear optimization problems, where the case of infinitely many constraints is intrinsically included. The author presents basic theoretical approaches and outcomes of this area in a concise, competent and informative manner. Since this survey is almost complete, we cannot add much in our note. So, we will restrict ourselves to a discussion of two special subjects which are related to our own research, complementing thereby single aspects of the author’s presentation of Lipschitz stability analysis.
Die Finanzkrise hat auch die Welt der Rechnungslegung erschüttert. Grundlegende Prinzipien sollen anstelle zu vieler detaillierter Einzelregeln in den Vordergrund treten.
Die Interpretation der finanziellen Messgrössen von Konzernen ist anspruchsvoll. Offengelegt werden das Nettoeinkommen, das sogenannte Other Comprehensive Income und teilweise auch das Gesamteinkommen. An welchen Grössen sollen sich die Anspruchsgruppen orientieren? Der Beitrag zeigt, wie die Wertkonzepte zu beurteilen sind.
