Thomas S. Konrad analyzes the management control design and reveals critical success factors of strategically oriented public-private partnerships for development between international governmental actors and the private sector. He builds a sound basis for the identification of a research gap...

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test...

This edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain, its drivers and barriers, business modelling and...

This book presents a study of cooperatives as a two-layer entrepreneurial model, and analyzes cooperative enterprises. Above all, it explores how inducements (from the firm) and contributions (from its members, in their respective roles) are aligned, and seeks to answer the question of what this...

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm...

1. Is Transaction Cost Economics Behavioral? -- 2. Clarifying Key Terms and Philosophical Foundations of Transaction Cost Economics -- 3. Opportunism and Bounded Rationality in Transaction Cost Economics: Values, Attitudes, or Behaviors? -- 4. Modeling Bounded Rationality: Mediation or...

Einleitung -- Das europäische Kartengeschäft - „The Two-Sided-Market“ -- Das Kartengeschäft - Grundlage innovativer Geschäftsmodelle -- Fallbeispiel EPI – European Payment Initiative.-Zusammenfassung der Erkenntnisse.

Problemstellung -- Digitalisierung im Controlling-Kontext -- Umsetzbarkeit der Digitalisierung in Controlling-Prozessen -- Erfolgsfaktoren der Digitalisierung von Controlling-Prozessen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen praxisorientierten Überblick über die notwendigen Voraussetzungen, die Funktionsweise sowie die einzelnen Schritte für die erfolgreiche Einführung von Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Neben theoretischen Grundlagen verdeutlichen Umsetzungsbeispiele aus der...

Datensicherheit und Risiko -- Rationalität bewerten, Handeln definieren und Bereitschaft für Veränderungen schaffen -- Digitalisierung, Algorithmen und Agilität im Controlling -- Progonosen, Strategien und Prozesse -- Operative Entwicklungen und Innovationen.