As business processes are crucial success factors for companies, software-based Business Process Management (BPM) is becoming more and more important. In this area SAP, the market leader for enterprise application software, has already gathered substantial experience. For the characterization,...

Describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. This book provides a picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing. It assesses whether antitrust enforcement by the European Union, the United States, and other countries...

This book is the revised version of a doctoral thesis written at the Graduiertenkolleg Law and Economics at Hamburg University. It addresses the market failure with respect to R&D for medicines for tropical diseases and the lack of access to affordable medicines in poor countries. Tropical...

Bilanzielle Behandlung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungskosten nach IFRS -- Kapitalmarkt und Informationseffizienz -- Grundlagen der Kapitalmarktrelevanzforschung -- Stand der empirischen Forschung zu Forschungs- und Entwicklungskosten.

This publication examines how drug originator manufacturers manage to shield their products from competition. It characterizes the pharmaceutical industry in detail and analyzes actions that violate antitrust laws in the USA and/or the European Union. The publication examines, for example,...

This book explores technological innovation in family firms, seeking to reconstruct the links between the heterogeneous dimensions of family businesses and their innovative behaviour. Building on and examining the traditional view of family firms as conservative, this book contributes to...