Dazu soll im weiteren Verlauf zunächst auf die Grundlagen, also den Förderauftrag und das Bestehen am Markt, eingegangen werden. Darauf aufbauend stellt sich die Frage, wie der Erfolg einer Genossenschaft gemessen werden kann und welche möglichen Kriterien zum Einsatz kommen können. Danach...

While some of the modern performance measures used in managerial accounting rely on cash flow based figures others try to take advantage of the information content of accounting figures. However, whether the additional information content in the accrual components of earnings improves the...

Mit vorliegender Arbeit stellten sich die Verfasser die Aufgabe, eine Ex-Post-Analyse von ausgewählten börsennotierten und nicht-börsennotierten Verkehrsflughäfen für den Zeitraum 1995 – 1999 anhand von Produktivitäts- und Finanzkennzahlen sowie wertorientierten Performance-Maßen...

We use a dynamic framework and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a firms' time-varying capital structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002. If capital structure adjustment is costly, firms may...

This paper investigates the impact of individual bank fundamental variables on stock market returns using data from a panel of 235 European banks from 1991 to 2005. The sample period marks a significant transition in the European banking sector, characterized by higher competition, lower profit...

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between pay and performance. Economic and psychological theories predict that the design and implementation of a performance measurement and compensation system affect the motivation of employees. Our survey results demonstrate a positive...

This work explores a number of properties investigated in the empirical literature on firm size and growth dynamics: (i) the distribution and the autoregressive structure of firm size; (ii) the existence of size-growth scaling relationships; (iii) the distribution and the autoregressive structure...

In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms' structure and dynamics, that is profitability and productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non parametric exercises performed on an...