Topics in corporate governance have been around in the literature almost for a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on the large and public company. While this research has improved our understanding of how large corporations are governed, corporate governance in small...

This study examines the impact of regional competitiveness on the innovative activity of entrepreneurial firms. Based on a unique and hand collected data set of publicly listed high technology start-ups and university regions, this paper tests how regional competitiveness and university...

The benefits of family ownership and control of firms are at the center of the family firm debate. Previous studies have used either family ownership or management as proxies for control. Both indicators are off the mark, as they do not measure "decision control" as intended by the theory of the...

Dem Phänomen "Corporate Governance" nähern sich Juristen und Ökonomen bisher weitgehend aus einem diametralen Blickwinkel heraus. Betrachten wir die zwei Enden des Intervalls von Austauschprozessen, so erfolgt(e) der Blickwinkel der Ökonomen weitgehend aus Richtung des Marktes, während...

Dieser Dieser Beitrag stellt zur Diskussion, welchen Beitrag die "Compliance" im Rahmen der Corporate Governance-Forschung einnehmen kann, wie sich diese Einordnung aus einer öko-nomischen Sichtweise heraus begründen lässt und welche Auswirkungen zu erwarten sind. Mag auf den ersten Blick der...

Corporate governance is a recent concept that encompasses the costs caused by managerial misbehavior. Corporate governance is concerned with how organizations in general, and corporations in particular, produce value and how that value is distributed among the members of the corporation, its...

After WWII, the German Economy increased rapidly, often described as the "Deutsche Wirtschaftswunder". Within a short period, Germany reached the status of unemployment and human capital gets the critical factor and resource in shaping economic growth. While the bottle neck with blue collar...

We conduct an event study to assess the stock market evaluation of public takeover announcements. Unlike the majority of previous research, we specifically focus on acquisitions targeted at newly public IPO-firms and show that the stock market positively evaluates these M&As as R&D. However,...

Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als "Hidden Champions" der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...

The rate and magnitude of university-to-industry-technology-transfer (UITT) is a function not only of university characteristics but also of regional factors. A university's embeddedness in an innovative regional milieu moderates UITT. This necessary balance of the supply side ("technology...