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....

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the response of output to fiscal consolidations and expansions in the small Euro-area open economies...

Julian Gulden untersucht Determinanten und Kontextfaktoren der Akzeptanz und Nutzung von Investment Management FinTechs. Auf Basis eines Modells mit theoretisch und praktisch hergeleiteten Einflussfaktoren werden Konsumentenbedürfnisse und Konsumentenverhalten analysiert. Es lässt sich...

Basierend auf der Erkenntnis, dass Einwohner eine bedeutende Zielgruppe im Rahmen der Markenführung von Städten sind, entwickelt Ayla Rößler ein Modell zur internen, identitätsbasierten Markenführung von Städten. Es wird untersucht, wie Einwohner als wichtige interne Zielgruppe einer...

For selected target groups, such as unemployed and disadvantaged youth, Christoph Ehlert demonstrates that flexible and well-targeted programmes significantly improve employment chances. To be effective, these programmes must combine individual coaching, classroom training and temporary work....