Die Notwendigkeit zur Nutzung eines Controllings für deutsche mittelständische Unternehmen durch unternehmensinterne und -externe Impulse ist in der Vergangenheit weiter angestiegen. Trotz der großen Bedeutung mittelständischer Unternehmen für die deutsche Wirtschaft ist der Erkenntnisstand...

We investigate the recently advanced theory that high-technology workers are drawn to high amenity locations and then the high-technology jobs follow the workers. Using a novel data set that tracks high-technology job growth by U.S. county, we estimate spatial parameters of the response of job...

Competitive and high-risk environments require complex high technology systems, which need to be supported and maintained over their respective life cycles. These systems often have a significant consequence of failure, and require complex management systems to achieve their operational...

In today?s global economy innovation is presented as the key to economic development and sustainability. Only through innovation can companies ensure their progress and their place in the market and can become strong enough to survive and prosper. By creating a favourable environment for...

Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....

This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude oncompetitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approachconsiders contractors as individual entities competing with each other for common jobopportunities, and competition as an...

This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy the item at a fixed BINprice set by the seller...