Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Technology, R&D Management

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Keyword(s): private equity

What effects has the so-called subprime crisis had on private equity transactions? What exactly is recapitalization and how can it be put in practice? Is private equity economically useful? The current debate provides plenty of questions about this industry, which is still in its infancy in Germany. The Private Equity Lexicon seeks to answer these questions and is also meant to be a comprehensive reference book for practitioners. Economic issues are therefore looked at from a legal and a fiscal perspective. The Private Equity Lexicon has been written to enable easy access to the wide range of pertinent topics and it also provides the reader with recommendations for further reading.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior, Keyword(s): coaching, leadership development, leadership coaching, coach, difficult cases, helping profession

Bringing together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world, this project explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices. By analysing and reflecting on the real life case studies the authors show how to deal with these situations in daily life.

Subject(s): Marketing, Ethics & Social Responsibility, Keyword(s): CR, CSR, sustainability, stakeholders, direct route, indirect route

The corporate social and environmental responsibility movement, known more generally as corporate responsibility (CR), shows little sign of waning. Almost all large corporations now run some form of corporate responsibility program. Despite this widespread belief that CR can simultaneously improve societal welfare and corporate performance, most companies are largely in the dark when it comes to understanding how their stakeholders think and feel about these programs. This book argues that all companies must understand how and why stakeholders react to such information about companies and their actions. It examines the two most important stakeholder groups to companies – consumers and employees – to comprehend why, when and how they react to CR. Armed with this insight, it shows how companies can maximize the value of their CR initiatives by fostering strong stakeholder relationships to develop, implement and evaluate compelling social responsibility programs that generate value for both the company and its stakeholders.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior, Keyword(s): leadership development, leadership, academic writings on leadership development

This authoritative volume brings together a critical selection of important academic articles and practitioner-oriented papers that reflect current thinking and practices in the growing field of leadership development. It offers a solid foundation for theoretical approaches to leadership development and covers the key methodologies applicable to leadership development research and practice. This indispensible collection is edited by two leading authorities in the field and features an original introduction. It will be an essential source of reference for scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of leadership, leadership development, human resource management and education. 36 articles, dating from 1952 to 2009.

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Keyword(s): managerial accounting, cost center accounting, contribution margins

Chinese version of the book "Kosten- und Erlösrechnung".

Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): multivariate analysis

Mit der 12. Auflage des vorliegenden Buches hatten wir erstmalig die behandelten multivariaten Verfahren in zwei Gruppen untergliedert: grundlegende und komplexe Verfahren. Diese Zweiteilung wurden auch von unseren Lesern in der Mehrheit begrüßt, so dass wir uns nun entschieden haben, die sieben von uns in der 12. Auflage als "komplexer" definierten Verfahren in einem zweiten Band unter dem Titel "Fortgeschrittene Multivariate Analysemethoden" herauszubringen.

Um die Verbindung beider Werke deutlich zu machen, haben wir aber auch in der 13. Auflage das relativ kurze Kapitel III beibehalten, in dem die komplexeren Verfahren, die wir nun in "Fortgeschrittene Verfahren" umbenannt haben, einführend beschrieben sind. Durch die Trennung der beiden Verfahrensgruppen wollen wir insbesondere unseren Zielgruppen besser gerecht werden: Während die 13. Auflage des Buches "Multivariate Analysemethoden" primär auf das Bachelor-Studium gerichtet ist, zielen die "Fortgeschrittene Multivariate Analysemethoden" auf die Verwendung in Master- und PhD-Programmen ab. Mit der Trennung der beiden Bücher folgen wir somit auch der Neuorganisation des universitären Studiums in Bachelor- und spezialisierte Master- sowie Doktoranden-Programme.

Subject(s): Technology, R&D Management Keyword(s): open innovation; communities; value creation

The advent of Internet marked a significant change in how users and customers can be involved in the innovative process. History is rife with examples of how users innovate, but Internet and its associated communication technologies brought radically new means for individuals to interact rapidly and at little cost in communities that spur new innovations. These communities are initiated and governed by people that differ in their motivations for taking part and participate to varying degrees. Such communities are outside the immediate control of companies seeking to develop open innovation strategies aimed at harnessing their work. This book brings together distinguished scholars from different disciplines: economics, organization theory, innovation studies and marketing in order to provide an improved understanding of how technological as well as symbolic value is created and appropriated at the intersection between online communities and firms. Empirical examples are presented from different industries, including software, services and manufacturing. The book offers food for thought for academics and managers to an important phenomenon that challenges many conventional wisdoms for how business can be done. This book was published as a special issue of Industry and Innovation.

Reprint of Industry and Innovation 15(2).

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): institutions, economic development, microeconomic perspectives

The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutions-or other factors altogether (geography, culture, or religion)-are central to development. In this volume, leading scholars in development economics view institutions from a microeconomic perspective, offering both theoretical overviews and empirical analyses spanning three continents.

After substantial introductory chapters by Pranab Bardhan and Marcel Fafchamps, two scholars who have published important work on this topic, each of the remaining chapters examines a particular set of institutions in a unique setting. These chapters treat the effects of Angola's violent conflict on that country's development; institutional accountability in Uganda; the effect of Indonesia's ethnic diversity on the distribution of public goods; the impact of trade liberalization on India's investment climate; extended family networks in Mexico; and a microeconomic perspective on land rights in Ethiopia.

The chapters demonstrate the remarkable heterogeneity of institutions-policy change is mediated through local market institutions, government institutions, and families-as well as the empirical and methodological ingenuity of current research into this crucial topic.

Subject(s): Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior, Keyword(s): executive coaching, leadership development, executive education, psychology of leadership, clinical paradigm

This book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team, and organizational levels. As a result, coaching interventions serve to create more reflective people, who in turn, create better organizations. The group coaching methodology, used by the INSEAD Global Leadership Center (IGLC) and adopted by the Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR) at the European School of Technology and Management (ESMT), Berlin, is the basis for developing the theoretical assumptions behind the chapters. Through sharing research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in the leadership development and education of executive coaches, the book sheds light on how the 'magic' of coaching works, what coaches actually do, and how their clients respond. This book is a joint project between the IGLC and the CLDR. In compiling it, we have involved academics who conduct research, teach, and consult; leadership development coaches; change consultants; and executives who adopted IGLC methods for reflection on leadership development opportunities and challenges. We have also included people who have experienced IGLC methods in the process of their developmental journeys. They have collaborated, consulted their research and practice notes, analyzed data from inquiry projects, and shared their personal experiences in individual essays.

Subject(s): Marketing, Ethics & Social Responsibility, Keyword(s): CR, CSR, sustainability, stakeholders

Corporate responsibility has gone global. It has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. Increasingly, it is argued that business must play a constructive role in addressing massive global challenges. Business is not responsible for causing most of the problems associated with, for example, extreme poverty and hunger, child mortality and HIV/AIDS. However, it is often claimed that business has a responsibility to help ameliorate many of these problems and, indeed, it may be the only institution capable of effectively addressing some of them. Global Challenges in Responsible Business addresses the implications for business of corporate responsibility in the context of globalization and the social and environmental problems we face today. Featuring research from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, it focuses on three major themes: embedding corporate responsibility, corporate responsibility and marketing, and corporate responsibility in developing countries.

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Keyword(s): managerial accounting, cost center accounting, contribution margins

Die Kosten- und Erlösrechnung ist ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil des betrieblichen Rechnungswesens und stellt - neben dem externen Rechnungswesen - eine wesentliche Grundlage zur Planung und Kontrolle der Geschäftstätigkeit dar. Kenntnisse zur Erfassung und zum Management von Kosten und Erlösen gehören somit zum Kernbereich betriebswirtschaftlichen Wissens. Das Buch bietet eine anwendungsorientierte, lehr- und lernfreundliche Einführung sowohl für Studierende wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fächer als auch für Praktikerinnen und Praktiker, die ihre Kenntnisse in diesem Bereich erweitern wollen. Aufgaben, Ziele und Ablauf der Konzepte der Kosten- und Erlösrechnung werden in den Kapiteln schrittweise erläutert und anhand von Fallbeispielen und Rechenaufgaben verdeutlicht. Kernsätze fassen die Inhalte der Kapitel zusammen, und Interviews mit Managern geben Einblicke in die Praxis. Dadurch vermittelt das Buch konsequent, wofür die Ergebnisse der Kosten- und Erlösrechnung in der Praxis benötigt werden.

Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): multivariate analysis

Chinese version of the book "Multivariate Analysemethoden: Eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung".

Subject(s): Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior, Keyword(s): Executive coaching, leadership development, executive education, psychology of leadership, clinical paradigm, talent management, HR management, executive coaching

The INSEAD Gloabl Leadership Centre (IGLC) was founded and is directed by Professor Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries. IGLC has helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations. This book is a volume of essays contributed by IGLC faculty and coaches on topics relevant to leadership development. Drawing upon substantial research, this book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): supply chain management, cooperation, partnership, purchasing management JEL Classification: M10, M13

Leveraged Innovation reveals that a dramatically different approach to the supplier - client relationship is being developed by leading companies around the world. It documents the benefits of Early Supplier Involvement (ESI), a radically new approach to inter-company relations which is providing a powerful impetus for increased creativity. Based on the findings of a European Research team, the text clearly shows how, why and to what effect suppliers the world over are becoming increasingly involved in the innovation process itself. Leveraged Innovation demonstrates and documents the process through which increased co-operation can lead to real competitive advantage. Leveraged Innovation is both an introduction to Early Supplier Involvement and a dynamic overview of best practise around the world. It provides important practical insights for enterprising companies, enabling the development and maintainence of ESI programmes of their own. Readers will discover for themselves that while this approach is an option for excellence in the present, it looks set to become a necessity for profitable business in the Twenty First century.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Technology, R&D Management Keyword(s): patent systems, intellectual property, dissertation

The European Patent System is facing major challenges resulting from an extension of patentable subject matter leading to an increasing number of patent applications. The European Patent Office has responded with admirable flexibility, but continuing technological change and greater importance ascribed to patents are leading to lengthened examination periods, rising opposition figures and changing behaviour of patent applicants.

Stefan M. Wagner analyses problems associated with institutional changes (duration of patent examination and opposition mechanisms), the expansion of the patentable subject matter and organizational challenges for industrial patentees. The study is based on the empirical analysis of large scale datasets on European patents and employs advanced multivariate methods such as semi-parametric and panel-data regression methods.

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Keyword(s): Auftragserfolgsrechnung, Bereichserfolgsrechnung, Betriebserfolgsrechnung, Deckungsbeitragsrechnung, Kalkulation, Kostenartenrechnung, Kostenbegriff, Kostenstellenrechnung, Kostenträgerstückrechnung, Leistungsrechnung, Planauftragserfolgsrechnung, Plankalkulation, Plankostenstellenrechnung, Prozesskostenrechnung, Rechnungsprinzipien, Stückdeckungsbeitragsrechnung, Stückerfolgsrechnung

Kostenbewusstes Denken und Handeln ist im Zeichen steigender Wettbewerbsintensität eine selbstverständliche Anforderung an alle Führungskräfte in der Praxis. Kaufmännische und technische Führungskräfte, ob sie nun in der Konstruktion, der Produktion oder im Vertrieb tätig sind, müssen beurteilen können, welche Kosteninformationen für Entscheidungen benötigt werden, wie die Daten zu interpretieren und welche Konsequenzen für das betriebliche Handeln daraus zu ziehen sind. Wer außerhalb aufwändiger Informationssysteme mit einfachen Mitteln seine Kosten nachrechnen möchte, aber auch wer die heutigen ERP-Systeme mit ihren Informationen besser verstehen will, findet in diesem Buch die richtige Methodik und geeignete Beispiele.

Industrielle Kostenrechnung bietet eine sichere Einführung in die Grundlagen der Industriellen Kostenrechnung. Deren Verfahren werden klar systematisiert und die anschaulichen Beispiele dienen als hinreichender Leitfaden für die Praxis.

In die bearbeitete Neuauflage wurde das Verfahren Prozesskostenrechnung zusätzlich aufgenommen; viele Aufgaben und Beispiele sind neu.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management,

Mit der Etablierung von Wahlbörsen zur Prognose späterer Wahlergebnisse entstand eine Vielzahl von Anwendungsfeldern für virtuelle Informationsbörsen als neues Instrument der Marktforschung. Die besonders betonte prognostische Qualität des Verfahrens und die entgegengebrachte wissenschaftliche Beachtung legen es nahe, sich ebenfalls mit der Eignung von Börsen für die Planung von Investitionen zu befassen.

In dem vorliegenden Buch überprüfen die Autoren sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch, inwiefern sich der Börsenmechanismus als integrativer Lösungsansatz zur Gewinnung von Informationen über die Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit einer Investition und zugleich als Möglichkeit der Absicherung von Investitionsrisiken eignet.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Human Resources Management/Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship, Keyword(s): leadership, Russia, BRIC, transition economies, Russian leadership styles

This important series is designed to make a significant contribution to the development of leadership studies. This field has expanded dramatically in recent years and the series provides an invaluable forum for the publication of high quality works of scholarship and shows the diversity of leadership issues and practices around the world.

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Product & Operations Management, Ethics & Social Responsibility, Health & Environment, Keyword(s): Umweltmanagement, EMAS, operations research

Können ökologische Risiken gemanaget werden? Wie können Aspekte einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung in unternehmerischen Entscheidungen berücksichtigt werden? Welche Möglichkeiten zur Schaffung von Transparenz bietet ein umweltorientiertes Kostenmanagement und wie beeinflusst der ordnungspolitische Rahmen Entscheidungen in Unternehmen? Diese und eine Vielzahl weiterer, sowohl für Wissenschaftler als auch für Praktiker aktueller Fragestellungen haben Günter Beuermann während seiner wissenschaftlichen Laufbahn beschäftigt. Die vorliegende Festschrift beinhaltet daher in Anlehnung an seinen wissenschaftlichen Werdegang Beiträge zu quantitativen Modellen der Unternehmungsführung, zum Umweltschutz und Umweltmanagement sowie zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften.

Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): Geschäftsbeziehungen, Marketing, Relationship Marketing

Das Management enger Geschäftsbeziehungen zwischen Unternehmen oder Unternehmen und Konsumenten wird oft als Erfolgsfaktor propagiert. Als eigenständiges Forschungsgebiet hierzu hat sich das Relationship Marketing in den letzten Jahren fest etabliert. In dem vorliegenden Buch wird ein Fazit der bisherigen Diskussion gezogen und werden denkbare Weiterentwicklungen aufgezeigt. Das Buch analysiert Ursachen und Erfolgswirkungen des Relationship Marketing und ordnet diese Managementfunktion in den Kontext anderer betriebswirtschaftlicher Disziplinen und Funktionen ein. Darüber hinaus werden exemplarisch branchenspezifische Besonderheiten herausgestellt.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): Business Plan, Bewertungskriterien, Vermarktung

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Ethics & Social Responsibility, Keyword(s): Kooperation, Strategie, Umweltmanagement, NGO

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): competition policy

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): oligopolistic markets, information spillover, collusion JEL Classification: D43, D82, D83, C72, L1, L4

Dissertation

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management,

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): industrial policy

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): corporate structure

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment,

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): network industries

The regulation of network industries has emerged as a key issue on the European policy agenda. Yet there has been very little high-quality economic analysis capable of guiding European policy-makers. This Report, the first in a new series on Monitoring European Deregulation, rises to that challenge, offering new policy-oriented research on the key questions surrounding the liberalization of Europe's major network industries: telecommunications, energy, transport and water.

The first part of the Report explores ten conflicting priorities that European policy-makers face in defining an appropriate competition and regulatory policy framework for the network industries: short-term versus longer term objectives; efficiency versus equity objectives; competition versus monopoly; slow versus fast liberalization; public versus private ownership; sector-specific regulations versus general competition law; rules versus discretion; permanent versus temporary regulation; centralized versus decentralized regulation; and light-handed versus heavy-handed regulation.

The second part of the Report focuses specifically on the telecommunications industry, a sector where shifting patterns of ownership and market structure in combination with extraordinary technological change are creating enormous challenges for regulators at both the EU and national level. The Report examines the risk that new national or Europe-wide regulation will tilt the playing field in favour of some competitors with potentially detrimental consequences both for consumers and for the long-term development of the industry.

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): corporate governance, strategic management, privatization, organizational politics, Hungary JEL Classification: C78, D21, D23, G34, G38, L33, M10

Why do some privatisations apparently fail to produce expected positive results? Economic theory tells us that privatization should improve efficiency, but this book suggests that political bargaining in the process of privatisation works against the results we expect to achieve. To gain a more adequate understanding of what privatisation is really about, one also needs to look at the issue of power at the level of organisations undergoing privatisation. Privatisation is a gradually unfolding, evolutionary process, often with defective corporate governance. Politicking can take priority over performance, attention is diverted from efficency, and the firm drifts.
This is the first and only book on privatisation which focuses on micro-level behavioral issues and it uses exceptionally rich case evidence to illustrate that privatisation is more about politics than performance.

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment,

Die Studie enthält eine umfassende aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Raumfahrtaktivitäten und diskutiert aus volkswirtschaftlicher Sicht geeignete ordnungspolitische Rahmenbedingungen, die zu einer Stärkung der deutschen Raumfahrtindustrie beitragen können. Eine solche Stärkung wird allerdings nur im Rahmen eines ordnungspolitischen Gesamtkonzepts auf europäischer Ebene möglich sein. Die Autoren skizzieren deshalb auch einen Stufenplan für die Entwicklung einer gesamteuropäischen Raumfahrtpolitik. Ein wesentlicher Teil der Studie ist der Diskussion um den "volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen" der Raumfahrt gewidmet. Die einschlägige Literatur zu dieser Frage wird kritisch erörtert. Es wird darüber hinaus klargestellt, daß mit der Existenz eines solchen Nutzens noch nicht die Existenz einer deutschen oder europäischen Raumfahrtindustrie begründet werden kann. Raumfahrtdienstleistungen könnten auch von anderen Nationen eingekauft werden. Die Autoren diskutieren, ob industrieökonomische Besonderheiten (Größenvorteile, Pfadabhängigkeiten, der Aspekt der Schlüsselindustrie u. a.) einem solchen Fremdbezug entgegenstehen. Gestützt auf diese Analyse wird der oben erwähnte Grundriß eines ordnungspolitischen Gesamtkonzepts für die europäische Raumfahrtindustrie entworfen.

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): trust, corporate culture, transaction JEL Classification: M10, M13

Trust in management and managing trust is an essential key to a company's success. Trust is central to the concept of power and authority and also requires a respect for ethics. The wide-ranging implications of this theory form the central focus of this collection of essays, originally published in France, which were written in honour of Dr Roger Delay Termoz. This book will be of interest to both managers and employees as well as advanced students of management.

Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): business-to-business marketing, turn-key projects, pricing for capital goods

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): corporate strategy, competitive strategy, international strategy, strategic management, mergers and acquisitions, strategy implementation, organizational structure JEL Classification: M10, M16, Y20

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Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): business-to-business marketing

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Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): strategy types, strategy and structure JEL Classification: M10, M16, Y20

Subject(s): Marketing, Keyword(s): Kaufentscheidungen auf industriellen Märkten, wahrgenommenes Risiko des Kunden, Vertrauen und Kontrolle, Institutionenökonomie

Der Autor entwickelt ein innovatives und eigenständiges Modell des Vertrauensaufbaus, in das neben Erkenntnissen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre auch Forschungsergebnisse der Psychologie und Soziologie einfließen.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Ethics & Social Responsibility, Keyword(s): trust, corporate culture, transaction JEL Classification: M10

Parce que les entreprises sont non seulement des machines - produire et - vendre mais aussi des machines de création ou de dissipation de la confiance, toutes ses fonctions (ressources humaines, financieres, marketing, production...) sont examinées, dans la société européenne comme dans la société japonaise.

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management,

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Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): technology, pricing, licensing, technology transfer JEL Classification: M16

Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): industry analysis, competition analysis, business strategy JEL Classification: M00

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): industrial organization, methodology, history of economic thought JEL Classification: B40, L00, B21

Subject(s): Economics, Politics & Business Environment, Keyword(s): economic rent, industrial economics, energy, oil & gas JEL Classification: L13, L71

Subject(s): Marketing,

Subject(s): Finance, Accounting & Control [Finance, Accounting & Corporate Governance], Keyword(s): transfer pricing, decentralization, banking

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