Unternehmen sind historisch gewachsene Bausteine der modernen Welt. Ihre Leistungskraft entscheidet über die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Ländern und den Lebensstandard ihrer Bürger. Unternehmen sind zugleich politische Akteure, die auch soziale und kulturelle Zusammenhänge stiften. Diese...

This book investigates how development institutions created and promoted marketized development financial instruments to increase the speed and scope of assistance by leveraging private financial markets for development objectives. To attract private investors, donor governments agreed to bear...

Maximilian Lantelme examines the historical growth and decline developments of large German family and non-family businesses between 1971 and 2011. Based on a sample of the 143 largest German companies in 1971 and in 2011, the author investigates the long-term development of each company and...