Aufgrund eines sich laufend verändernden Marktumfeldes, ist ein effektives Management von Produktentstehungsprozessen ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor für Hersteller komplexer Produkte. Dabei stellt das Fehlen eines gemeinsamen Verständnisses und kollektiver Handlungen der beteiligten...

Many economists and psychologists refuse the idea that behaviour could be based on any other motives than selfish and hedonistic ones, at least in the context of economy, mainly based on a methodological premise, not so often on empirical research. The corresponding image of man that is inherent...

How can we understand the innovativeness of firms or organizations in general, and how should we assess it in terms of nontechnological innovation? My paper deals with these two questions. The "ability" of companies to adapt to new circumstances, to create new products, processes and new...

This essay addresses the role of transaction cost economics (TCE) in advancing the resource-based view. In particular, it is argued that TCE has the potential to remedy a number of weak spots in the RBV, such as the absence of attention in the RBV to the interaction between value creation and...