This thesis analyzes the motivation and performance of 403 acquisitions made by emerging multinational corporations (EMNCs) in Western Europe and North America between 1994 and 2013. The findings indicate that most EMNCs were motivated to acquire in order to obtain access to the upstream and...

This book highlights how employees’ work environment perceptions significantly influence individuals’ attitudes and their intention to participate in firm internal innovation contests. Furthermore, it emphasizes the aspects of an organizational encouragement for participating in such...

This book focuses on the application of revenue management in the manufacturing industry. Though previous books have extensively studied the application of revenue management in the service industry, little attention has been paid to its application in manufacturing, despite the fact that...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

This book analyzes the evolution of marketing and the ways in which marketing actions can be rendered more effective, before setting out a new approach to marketing, termed The Extra Step (TES) in recognition of the importance that it attributes to the final extra step in enhancing the...

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any...

Major theoretical approaches stress the superiority of privately-owned over state-owned companies without addressing how corporate performance should best be measured. This book investigates performance of both private and state-owned, applying factor analysis to compare the two states

Gerhard Hochreiter analysiert in normativer Hinsicht, inwieweit bestimmte Anwendungskriterien unter Berücksichtigung der Grundsätze einer ökonomischen Risikokompensation und der IFRS 9 Hedge Accounting Systematik gerechtfertigt sind. Im Mittelpunkt dabei stehen die sub-LIBOR-Vorschrift sowie...

Die Wirtschaftskrisen der vergangenen Jahre haben das Ansehen multinationaler Konzerne ins Wanken gebracht. Zu groß, zu unbeweglich, zu unsympathisch – sagen viele junge Arbeitnehmer und Entrepreneure. Diese Avantgarde eines neuen Unternehmertums verfolgt ihre Geschäftsideen lieber selbst in...

Strategic planning, including the required quantitative methods, is an essential part of bank management and control. In this book capital, risk and yield are treated comprehensively and seamlessly. And a thorough introduction to the advanced methods of risk management for all sectors of banking...