Using data on 157 large companies in Poland and Hungary this paper employs Bayesianstructural equation modeling to examine interrelationships between corporategovernance, managers’ independence from owners in terms of strategic decision-making,exporting and performance. It is found that...

Nachdem das Thema "Management der Unternehmnesarchitektur" (engl. Enterprise Architecture Management, EAM) seit einiger Zeit in Wissenschaft und Praxis bearbeitet wird, werden Modelle der Unternehmensarchitektur in öffentlichen Einrichtungen und Unternehmen neben der Dokumentation von...

This paper investigates empirically the strategic alignment between innovation andproduction strategies in a sample of service firms in Spain. It employs the integratedarchetypes approach to analyse a dataset of unique, manually collected, firm responses....

The paper shows how traditional organizational structures within the productionsector, such as quality circles, learning groups (“Lernstatt”) and projectteams reflect the constructivist and postmodern concepts of strategic managementwith their wide ignorance of purely plan deterministic...

Insurance Industry will create a more efficient, customer centric, collaborative and innovative marketplace. Embrace extended/networked business models that include innovation across value chain through capabilities of strategic partners, best practices, expertise, and capital...

This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

This paper presents some consequences of economic theory for the regulation of corporate accounting and disclosure under Geman accounting legislation (de lege lata) and in an international context. The following implications are discussed: (i) It is argued that the economic income conception...

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...