contribution to improvements in implementation issues and a stronger focus on public goods like protection of natural resources and …

While in the US stock-based incentives are commonly used since the 50s of the last century, in Germany they were … incentives. In the meantime the legal environment has changed significantly and today even the German Corporate Governance Code … encourages firms to grant stock-based long-term incentives. However, examining a hand-collected unique data-set we find that even …

conditions. It summarizes the track record of program implementation and discusses the evidence of factors determining … implementation. Whether proponents or critics of conditionality can be supported by existing data analysis is also investigated, as …

buying companies. Yet, due to the lack of pre-financing capacities for the costly implementation of certification schemes … implementation of certification schemes compared to their transnational counterparts and therefore face a strong tendency of losing … enlarges the sustainability debate by including structural transformations of the industry linked to the implementation of …

common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …