This paper is concerned with the question when to preannounce the introduction of a future product when a company whishes to maximize profits across product life cy-cles. Based on a model proposed by Lilly and Walters (1997) an extended framework is developed to identify the determinants of new...

In the field of marketing, pricing is a valuable and long-established steering tool. But inthe logistics context of co-operative strategies like supply chain management, this fieldis mainly neglected. Therefore, the author describes the basic principles and effects ofprice differentiation and...

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms productive characteristics influence managers attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...

This paper analyzes the problem of deriving predictions, regarding supply behavior of acompetitive firm, from prior consistency postulates about input-output choices made by such afirm. It extends the literature by introducing a consistency postulate for firm choice, which isweaker than...

Mit einem Ausfuhrvolumen von 526 Mrd. D M erreichte die Bundesrepublik Deutschland bei einer Exportquotevon über 30% 1986 erstmals die Spitzenposition unter den exportierenden Ländern. Auch stiegen dieDurchschnittswerte der jährlichen Nettotransferleistungen deutscher Unternehmen für...

In this paper we analyze how a firm might protect quasi-rents in an environmentof imperfect capital markets, where switching lenders is costly to the borrower, andcontracts are incomplete. As switching costs make the firm vulnerable to ex-postexploitation, it may want to diversify lending in...

In most industrialized countries electric power tariffs for residentialconsumption are higher than for industrial customers. In Russia, asin some other transition countries, this pattern is reversed, but at thesame time the overall level of tariffs is very low. Cross subsidization ofresidential...

Compared to other European countries, housing policy in Germany has been favourable towards private rented housing. As a result, the private rented housing sector in Germany is large according to international standards. It appears to be 'healthy' in terms of housing quality and social profile...

The role of Japan in China’s contemporary industrialization process is analyzed by studying five areas in which Japan might have been able to influence developments in China: Industrial Policy, Official Development Assistance, Transfer of Technology without Equity Participation, Foreign Direct...

Im betrieblichen Umweltmanagement wird heute nach den tatsächlichen Ergebnissen eines Umweltmanagementsystems sowie nach konsistenten Kriterien zur deren Messung, Bewertung und Beurteilung gefragt. Dem Ausspruch Galileo Galilei's "Messen, was messbar ist - Messbar machen, was nicht messbar ist"...