This paper aims at assessing the relationship between ownership structure, performance and investmentactivity. In particular it studies how behavioural differences between farms related to ownership structureinfluence farms' investment activity and thus their further development potential...

This dissertation explores the ways in which institutional organizational theory can enhance our understanding of how organizational structures that shape social inequality emerge, diffuse, and persist over time. More specifically, in three distinct papers, I examine the institutionalization of...

In this paper we use rich panel data for a representative sample of Estonian enterprises to analyse diverse issues related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation. A key focus is to determine whether ownership changes are related to economic...

Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...

This paper examines the issues relating to the most appropriate form of corporation ownership including organizational and cultural systems that will maximize the firm's value to society whilst maintaining a more sustainable market value. The paper argues that the maximization of firm value to...

This dissertation presents a behavioral model of employee ownership and an experimental examination of the model. Chapter 1 reviews literature on employee ownership, gift-exchange, social preferences in experimental economics, and in-group bias. The model of employee ownership, presented in...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) mandated the expensing of stock options with FAS 123 (R). As of March 2006, 749 companies had accelerated the vesting of their employee stock options and avoided a reduction in their reported profits that otherwise would have occurred under the new...

Nicht handelbare reale Aktienoptionen sind ein beliebtes Instrument, um die variable Vergütung von Mitarbeitern mit dem Unternehmenswert zu verbinden. Für die Unternehmensseite existieren unterschiedliche Auffassungen, wie die Verpflichtung aus der Option zu bilanzieren ist. Der individuelle...

Variabel verzinsliche Kundengeschäfte repräsentieren einen bedeutenden Teil der Aktiva und Passiva von Banken. Ihre Bewertung und Risikoanalyse ist sowohl für Banken als auch für die Bankenaufsicht anspruchsvoll, da insbesondere das Zusammenspiel zwischen Markt- und Produktzinsen sich als...