Healthcare costs continue to increase dramatically, while quality remains a significant problem. Reform measures initiated by the government will drive expansion of these costs, further stressing taxpayers and employers, and forcing hospitals to adopt fundamental changes as they try to adjust to...

The question for the determinants and effects of the ownership concentration of firms is of central concern in the corporate governance literature. It has attracted significant attention in the last decades and has been frequently addressed by renown scholars in the corporate governance area....

VHB-JOURQUAL represents the official journal ranking of the German Academic Association for Business Research. Since its introduction in 2003, the ranking has become the most influential journal evaluation approach in German-speaking countries, impacting several key managerial decisions of...

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisionsabout the use of scarce resources in an explicit and rational manner, yeteconomic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of socialwelfare. This paper looks at the reasons for this, focusing on whateconomists could do...

This paper about “Management Education and Research in Germany” has beensubmitted and accepted for publication as part of a European book projectabout future scenarios for business schools in Europe by Thomas Durand andStephanie Dameron*. ‘Business School’, however, is not a common term...

The emerge and increasing performance of new information and communicationtechnologies (ICT) has enabled new organisational models of coordination andcooperation. Since the early nineties Virtual Organisations (VOs) as one of these newmodels have been in the focus of scientific research. Among...