Faster developing cycles and economic developments created many emerging economies in the 20th century. For sustainable economic growth, however, the construction and constant preservation of a profound knowledge base and technological pool is crucial. Brazil, China, India and Russia,...

This thesis deals with three selected dimensions of strategic behavior, namely investment in R&D, mergers and acquisitions, and inventory decisions in dynamic oligopolies.The question the first essay addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of...

Eine hohe Informationsverfügbarkeit und sich schnell wandelnde Produkt- und Produktionstechnologien dominieren die Wettbewerbsumgebung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Neben der Senkung von Kosten entwickelt sich insbesondere die schnelle und individuelle Umsetzung von Kundenanforderungen in neue Produkte...

Maximizing potential revenue and profitability performance continues to be a key objective for Direct Checks as the company’s core product - personal checks - moves through the decline stage of the product life cycle; and, the department with the most potential to positively impact the...

Environmental costs of products are closely related to their environmental impacts incurred at all life cycle stages of a product. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) methods are often used to estimate these environmental costs and impacts. However, LCA analysis is known to...

Bereits Schumpeter (1934, 1942) beschreibt, wie technologischer Fortschritt die neuartige und wertschaffende Kombination von Ressourcen ermöglicht. Das dadurch entstehende Ungleichgewicht im Markt ermöglicht es Unternehmern, diese „Chancen“ zu verfolgen und neue Technologien in...