Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remain considerable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Strategy workshops represent one obvious and explicit research site since organizations often use such events as a...

Vorliegende Arbeit sucht die Ursachen des Wandels der traditionellen Geschäftsstrategie von Kreditinstituten zu einem aktiven Steuerungsansatz unter dem Gesichtspunkt des Einflusses aufsichtsrechtlicher Anforderungen genauer zu analysieren. Es wird gezeigt, dass nicht nur ökonomische Faktoren,...

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...

Among the most prominent theoretical frameworks dealing with the economic underlyings of firms’ make-or-buy decisions are Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the Resourced Based View (RBV). Relying on panel data covering 107 European firms over eight years I test predictions from both TCE and...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die Auswirkungen einer nicht-residualen Ausschüttungspolitik auf die Modigliani/Miller-Anpassungsformeln in einer Welt differenzierter, Dividenden, Zinsen und Kursgewinne unterschiedlich behandelnder persönlicher Steuern. Entsprechende Einflüsse auf den Zusammenhang...

As mixture regression models increasingly receive attention from both theory and practice, the question of selecting the correct number of segments gains urgency. A misspecification can lead to an under- or oversegmentation, thus resulting in flawed management decisions on customer targeting or...

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor is away from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive...

Gleichlauf-Effekte in Preisen sollen anhand von Indexumstellungen des HDAX bzw. vormals DAX100 überprüft werden. Konsistent mit dem Modell von Barberis u.a. (2005) kann für Indexaufnahmen und -entnahmen nicht fundamentalbasiertes Comovement aufgedeckt werden. Im Vergleich zu US-amerikanischen...

This paper analyzes the numerical impact of different surplus distribution mechanisms on the risk exposure of a life insurance company selling with profit life insurance policies with a cliquet-style interest rate guarantee. Three representative companies are considered, each using a different...