As ‘disruption’ is currently becoming the new buzzword in boardrooms, this book advocates that the most striking opportunity for business today is making itself relevant to its stakeholders. By presenting a new route via innovative business models, a transformational corporate approach to...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems. A strong correlation exists between varieties of political regimes and varieties of capitalism: majoritarian political regimes are correlated with liberal market economies (LMEs)...

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership....

Industrie 4.0 and the Internet of Things have been positioned on the international stage as important initiatives of a promising future: Who is dealing in data from the digital factory? Germany has its “Plattform Industrie 4.0”, China “Made in China 2025” and the USA the “Industrial...

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

Die Beitragsautoren diskutieren ein breites Spektrum betriebs- und volkswirtschaftlich relevanter Aspekte der Service-Ökonomie. Untersucht werden die Integration von Kunden in den Prozess der Leistungserstellung sowie die Wirkungen der Informatisierung auf den Arbeitsmarkt, das...

Einführung und institutionelle Grundlagen -- Informationsfunktion -- Rechnungslegung und Kapitalmarkt -- Bilanzierungs- und Bewertungsgrundsätze -- Ausschüttungsbemessung -- Bilanzpolitik -- Publizität -- Wirtschaftsprüfung -- Prüferhaftung und Prüfungspolitik -- Unabhängigkeit des Prüfers.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die grundlegenden Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen der marktorientierten Führung von Handelsbetrieben ein. Die Autoren veranschaulichen diese anhand von Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung sowie Beispielen aus der Unternehmenspraxis. Leser und Leserinnen können sich so...