It is all very well exhorting UK business to be more innovative, more competitive andto close the productivity gap with economic rivals such as the US. The problem is,approximately 40 per cent of companies in the private sector are owned by non-UKbased companies. In these cases the parent...

Comme aujourd’hui la plupart des entreprises sont internationales, lesdirigeants sont constamment amenés à prendre des décisions concernantl’internationalisation. Cette contribution est consacré aux questions suivantes : qui prendles décisions en matière d’internationalisation ? Que...

In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individuallyasked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize thatconfronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behaviorcontributes to the formation of...

The interdependence of technical and financial considerations poses a majorproblem for the development of appropriate decision support systems in businesspractice. In this paper, an application - with strategic importance for outsourcingproviders in information technology - is described...

The rise of the Internet economy can be attributed to the worldwide spread of Internetaccess points and the rapid pace of ICT development (information and communicationtechnology), which together induced cross-border networking between privatehouseholds, enterprises and entire markets [Wirt01,...

Investors need performance measures particularly as a means for funds selection in the process of exanteportfolio optimization. Unfortunately, there are various performance measures recommended for differentdecision situations. Since an investor may be uncertain which kind of decision problem is...

This paper provides an analysis of individual and social decision criteria foralternatives that are composed of several attributes. We derive additive and multiplicativecriteria for individual decision-making with new axioms and apply these criteria toobtain new justications of known social...

Kovarianzstrukturanalytische Erklärung studentischen Gründungsverhaltens anhand der Persönlichkeitskonstrukte "Risikopräferenz" und "Unabhängigkeitsstreben" sowie der subjektiven Wahrnehmung der Umfeldbedingungen [Nikolaus Franke, Christian Lüthje]<p>Dieses Arbeitspapier ist ebenfalls als...</p>

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier vergleicht und bewertet den entscheidungsunterstützenden Informationsgehaltes deutscher und US-amerikanischer Hochschul-Ranking-Studien. Die vergleichende Bewertung soll anhand einer präskriptiven Entscheidungstheorie abgeleiten allgemeine Methodik zur Erstellung von...

Many decisions in economics and finance have to be made under severe time pressure. Furthermore, payoffs frequently depend on the speed of decision-making, like, for instance, when buying and selling stocks. In this paper, we examine the influence of time pressure and time-dependent incentive...