Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 WGP Congress, June 27-28, 2012, Berlin, Germany. The 39 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Light Weight Construction, Chapter 2: Enabling Mass Production, Chapter 3: Medical and Micro Technology, Chapter 4: E-Mobility, Chapter 5:...

(Abstract) Although the application of capital market theory is questionable in real estate investment, many institutional investors still perform asset allocation with historic real estate data. Entrepreneurial investment analysis relies on a different information setting. To date it is unclear...

(Abstract) In the market for German real estate finance at the end of 2001 a phenomenon could be identified that shows significant parallels to the shortening of credit supply in the US market in the early nineties, called the credit crunch. There are two basic reasons that explain the...

Guided by the theory of organizational path dependence, this paper explores whether transport subcontracting might be a barrier to modal shift from road transport to combined transport if access to combined transport is enabled by horizontal transshipment technologies. In this paper, we attempt...