This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation...

This book describes how non-profit organisations (NPOs) communicate what they constitute, signal success and display sustainability in order to convince stakeholders to provide essential resources. Reports on intellectual capital offer a worthwhile approach. Based on empirical research, the book...

This book investigates how social identity relates to financial investment behavior of the German-Turkish diaspora. The author approaches this study using qualitative research and multiple semi-structured in-depth interviews with a strong philosophical and methodological basis. Taking a...

Introduction -- Background: Cost-of-Capital in the Finance Literature -- Previous Results on Cost-of-Capital Practices -- Research Philosophy and Ethics -- Empirical Research Approach and Methods -- Primary Research: Expert Interviews -- Primary Research: Company Survey -- Conclusion and...

Introduction -- Product Innovation, Credit Constraints, and Trade Credit: Evidence from a Cross-Country Study -- Product Innovation and Trade Credit Demand and Supply: Evidence from European Countries -- Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German manufacturing firms --...

This book contributes to the never-ending search for higher firm rents. Firms can be defined as a set or resources and skills. Traditional theory on strategic management hardly examines the unique and invaluable character of management competence as the key resource of the firm. Management...

This collection of fifteen original articles results from a cooperative intensive program of research on the German capital market. The program objectives included the development of expertise in modern empirical methods in financial economics and the derivation of results that might be specific...