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Gregor Gossy develops a stakeholder rationale for risk management arguing that firms which are more dependent on implicit claims from their non-financial stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, and employees, prefer conservative financial policies.
Through the use of statistical and qualitative analyses, this text explores the relationship between politics, history and the business organization from a global perspective. The book is divided into seven sections: "Political Conflict and the Corporation"; "Social Conflict and the Institutions of Corporate Governance"; "Left-Right Politics and Ownership Separation: Data"; "Nation by Nation"; "The Direction of Causality"; "The Quality of Corporate Law Argument and its Limits"; and "Unifying the Political Theories".
This title represents an ambitious undertaking, namely a broad view on the nature of intelligent decision making, which is characterized by the use of models and methods in the framework of decision support for management. With this title we want to reflect the scope of our field, but, at the same time, honor our colleague th Paul Stahly on the occasion of his 65 birthday. Paul Stahly has over decades invested his energy in developing the area of Operations Research from such a broad point of view. He has done this not only at his chairs at the HSG / University of St. Gallen and the University of Linz, but also on a broad international level as editor of ITOR and as influential member of all...
This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the 24th Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling held in Valencia, Spain, on April 8-10, 1.999. The Meeting took place in the Bancaja Cultural Center, a nice palace of the XIX century, located in the center of the city. Traditionally, members of the Euro Working Group on Financial Mod elling meet twice a year, hosted by different active groups in successions. The year 1999 was very special for us because the University of Valencia celebrates its fifth century. The Meeting was very well attended and of high quality. More than 90 participants, coming from 20 different countries debated 46 communications in regular sessi...
Based on a unique database of German firms, the Deutsche Bundesbank's Corporate Balance Sheet Statistics, Andreas Behr explores the link between financial factors and a firm's investment decision within the framework of the Q-theory of investment.
Provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries.
This proceedings volume contains extended abstracts of talks presented at the 18th Symposium on Operations Research held at the University of Cologne, September 1-3, 1993. The Symposia on Operations Research are the annual meetings of the Gesellschaft fiir Mathematik, Okonometrie und Operations Research (GMOOR), a scientific society providing a link between research and applications in the areas of applied mathematics, economics and operations research. The broad range of interests and scientific activities covered by GMOOR and its members was demonstrated by about 250 talks presented at the 18th Symposium. As in l'ecent years, emphasis was placed on optimization and stochastics, this year w...
A fundamental challenge that management faces in the twenty-first century is how to exercise adequate control, i. e. how to guide and direct the behaviour of their subordinates. With increasing globalisation firms witness a cross-cultural impact too. Of particular interest is the question of whether to use the standardized form of control similar to the home base of firms or whether to adapt their control practices to the local specificities. Given the meagre state of the literature in management control with a cross-cultural emphasis, this study addresses a real world problem, namely the question whether management control practices are configured similarly or differently across cultures. R...
Auf Basis einer kostentheoretischen Modellierung und Optimierung von unternehmensübergreifenden Logistiksystemen (Metalogistiksystemen) unterbreitet Udo Buscher Vorschläge zur effizienten Gestaltung des Güterflusses. Anhand unterschiedlich abgegrenzter Metalogistiksysteme untersucht er alternative Koordinationsformen, vergleicht sie miteinander und leitet Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis ab.
Rainer Sibbel analysiert das betriebswirtschaftliche Kernproblem der Kapazitätsplanung in seiner Struktur für interaktive Dienstleistungen. Er untersucht alternative Planungsansätze des Kapazitätsmanagements und der Organisationsgestaltung und zeigt mögliche Ansatzpunkte zur Weiterentwicklung auf.