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

Step through the process of identifying and combining the right measures to gauge, narrate, and guide your organization's progress toward true success. All organizations have a common goal to be successful. All leaders want to make data-informed decisions and use measures to improve processes,...

Frank Ecker examines the performance of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) from 1980 to 2002. He links positive and negative abnormal returns to the deviation of the realized information risk from the expected information risk. The author proposes effective measures for a long-term profitable...

This updated and revised edition outlines strategies and models for how to use technology and knowledge to improve performance, create jobs and increase income. It shows what skills will be required to produce, sell and manage performance over time, and how manual jobs can contribute to reduce...

The Geography of Small Firm Innovation offers a unique look at the importance of geographic proximity to the innovative activity of high-tech small firms. The book explores the concentration of innovation across metropolitan areas in the United States during the 1990s, by introducing a novel...

Discussing the economics of entrepreneurship, this book views that it should establish a framework of analysis that integrates the understanding of the determinants and the effects of entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement mechanisms. For this...

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three...

This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world...