In 339 interviews we identified 449 time related and culturally determined critical incidents. We can clearly distinguish time behaviour of Anglo-German managers from that of managers from France and Italy and East Central Europe. These incidents with East Central European Managers can be...

Das Konzept des individuellen Kulturschocks ist bekannt. Es beschreibt psychische und mitunter auch physische Belastungen während des Aufenthalts in einer fremden Kultur, die durch die Konfrontation zwischen eigener und fremder Kultur ausgelöst werden. Nach der Meinung der Autoren gibt es...

This paper presents an analysis of the effects that Austria's accession to the EU had on several key financial ratios of small business firms in the retail and wholesale trade sectors. These two industries were selected because before 1995 they were protected in many respects, thus vulnerable to...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht zum ersten Mal sowohl die Beziehung der Nettoemissionsvolumina der aggregierten Anleihen als auch der einzelnen Anleihensektoren separat zum Wirtschaftswachstum. Des Weiteren werden erstmals Quartalsdaten verwendet. Granger-Kausalitäten werden für Zeitreihen...

1) Financing Firms in East European Countries: An Asymmetric Information and Agency Costs Approach, by Debora Revoltella 2) Seven Years of Financial Market Reform in Central Europe, by Peter H. Haiss and Gerhard Fink.

The paper focuses on the question whether banks and capital markets in Central Europe are capable of exerting a positive influence on enterprise performance at the present stage of the economic transformation. These markets are characterised by privileged, collaborative interfirm/interbank...

After seven years of transformation it is getting more and more difficult to blame the communist heritage for the state of the financial markets in the ten Central European countries which are candidates for EU membership. Only Hungary and Estonia have made sufficient progress in financial...

Purpose: We address the 'economics/cross-cultural management interface,' showing that bi-polar value perceptions fit into an agency model of an economy. Design: Modern views of economic processes have moved away from the traditional view of closed systems, with a tendency to cite them as open...