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....

Managed Care Managed Care ist keine in sich geschlossene Theorie, sondern vielmehr ein Bündel ganz unterschiedlicher Organisationsmodelle und Management-Instrumente, die in vielfältigen Kombinationen eingesetzt werden. Genau aus diesem Grund ist es auch nicht möglich, „für“ oder...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- F.-X. Kaufmann: Variations of the Welfare State - Great Britain, France and Germany Between Capitalism and Socialism: Preliminary Methodological Remarks -- Theoretical Foundations -- Welfare State Development Between Capitalism and Socialism -- Variations on the...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3 National Intellectual Capital Development of Four Large European Countries -- Chapter 4 Beyond the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5 Future Perspectives and Policy Implications.

Multi-Channel Retailing hat sich als Distributionsstrategie fest im Handel etabliert. Auf Grund der zunehmenden Verbreitung des Multi-Channel Retailing in der Handelspraxis ist eine Differenzierung allein auf Grundlage des Geschäftsmodells heute nicht mehr erfolgversprechend. Vielmehr muss das...

Bei allen langlebigen Investitionsgütern – von Maschinen und Anlagen bis zu Rüstungsgütern – stellt die Sicherstellung der Wirtschaftlichkeit in Anschaffung und Betrieb über längere Nutzungszeiten eine wesentliche Herausforderung dar. Angesichts der angespannten Finanzlage öffentlicher...