This volume offers a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in former Yugoslavian countries. Further, it provides a wealth of theoretical and empirical evidence on the role of entrepreneurship in transition economies and emerging markets....

A collections of essays in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation from former Yugoslavia and nowadays Croatia. The essays deal with themes related to Horvat's own work, namely equality, social justice, employee participation, labour management,...

The crisis of the so-called Golden Age regime has been paralleled since the late 1960s by an increasing importance of market exchanges as opposed to vertically integrated manufacturing activity, leading to major changes in the size structure of firms. These changes have generally taken the form...

Clemens Mast analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Größe von Unternehmen und dem Erfolg einer Geschäftsmodellinnovation, dem neuen Innovationstypus, der eigenständig und komplementär zu Produkt-, Prozess- und Dienstleistungsinnovation wirkt. Basierend auf empirischen Studien verdeutlicht...

Theorie und Praxis der Abschlussprüfung -- Genese von Skalierungskriterien -- Verhältnismäßiges Prüfungsvorgehen auf Basis des risikoorientierten Ansatzes -- Anforderungen an die skalierte Prüfung.

Einleitung -- Thematische Grundlagen -- CSR als Investition im Kontext von Familienunternehmen -- Mitarbeiter oder Kunden? Adressierung der CSR-Investition in Abhängigkeit vom Umsatz -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Quantitative Hauptstudie -- Abschließende Betrachtungen.

Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

This book applies econometric techniques to test the relationship between efficiency and risk within the banking industry in China. Chapters examine how efficiency has been affected by different types of risk-taking behaviour and how risk has been an important determinant of bank efficiency in...