This paper investigates the impact of IT standardization on bank performance based on a panel of 457 German savings banks over the period from 1996 to 2006. We measure IT standardization as the fraction of IT expenses for centralized services over banks' total IT expenses. Bank efficiency, in...

The wide range and the frequently renewed formulation of strategies and organization models of corporate banking highlight a) the absence of both an established theoretical framework and a dominant model, b) the huge risk of misalignment of strategy, market policies, macro/micro and hard/soft...

The wide range and the frequently renewed formulation of strategies and organization models of corporate banking highlight a) the absence of both an established theoretical framework and a dominant model, b) the huge risk of misalignment of strategy, market policies, macro/micro and hard/soft...