Kunden zählen zu den wichtigsten Quellen für Liquidität und letztlich Unternehmenserfolg in Technologieunternehmen; das ist unbestritten und darüber herrscht Einklang in Theorie und Praxis. Doch die zunehmende technologische, soziale und ökonomisch-rechtliche Dynamik im Lichte des...

Die herausragende Bedeutung eines nicht 'nur' effizienten sondern auch effektiven Kundenbeziehungs-managements wurde in der Praxis von vielen Industrieunternehmen in Technologiebranchen als 'die' Voraussetzung für nachhaltigen Geschäftserfolg erkannt. Empirische Untersuchungen bestätigen dies...

Recently, various environmental problems have been generated with the rapid economic development in China. That's because China currently over-emphasized economic development beyond environmental issues; therefore, now it is important to enforce optimal environmental policies in order to achieve...

Increasing scarcity of freshwater resources and growing environmental awareness give rise to the use of reclaimed wastewater as an additional source of water supply. However, the amount of wastewater that can be reclaimed for reuse is subject to many factors, ranging from technical possibility...

The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of government directors' impact on firm performance. This study strives to answer whether government directors have different effects on accounting- and market-based performance. To correct for the endogeneity of government directors...

We build a dynamic capital structure model to study the link between systematic risk exposure and debt maturity, as well as their joint impact on the term structure of credit spreads. Our model allows for time variation and lumpiness in the maturity structure. Relative to short-term debt,...