Presents the results of an empirical investigation of the behaviour of Hungarian firms during the transition process focusing in particular on the role of financial market imperfections for corporate capital structure and investment decisions

1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations for the emergence of TISCO in the 20th century -- 3 TISCO during the decade of the 1900s: The Formation period -- 4 Initial failure to produce competitive steel, capitalization...

This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata. Previous literature on many other countries has often been constrained by limited data availability about outsourcing, but research contained...

This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "Third Front," the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant...

This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be faced in the development of...

Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über Grundzüge und Auswirkungen der Neufassung des International Financial Accounting Standards für Versicherer. Zunächst werden dazu die wesentlichen Aspekte der Phase I beschrieben. Hier wird erkennbar, wie schon eine Fair-Value-Betrachtung der...

Jörg B. Kühnapfel entwickelt in der 2. Auflage dieses Buches eine Methodik, die eine verlässlichere Prognose des erwarteten Geschäftsverlaufs von Start-up-Unternehmen erlaubt. Der Autor vermittelt ein grundlegendes Verständnis für die besonderen Herausforderungen, die bei der Erstellung...

Multi-stakeholder partnering has become the 'new mantra' of decision-makers in business, government and civil society. Yet our understanding of what drives success and failure in these institutions remains incomplete. The book introduces a production theory which describes how the relationship...