Until recently “deceleration” has been little recognized as a technical term, or as an idea. However, it seems to begetting more attention now. For example the German magazine STERN dedicated a cover story to deceleration, in theAnglo-American world the “Quiet Life Hypothesis” is gaining...

The management of the value of a firm requires the identification of important value drivers. The main objective of the paper is to find out whether value based management (e.g. shareholder value oriented management) has to take into account environmental aspects. In order to answer this...