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Der Transport von Gütern hat einen signifikanten und weiter steigenden Anteil an den globalen Treibhausgasemissionen. Zur Reduzierung dieser Emissionen ist aufgrund des hohen Fremdvergabeanteils im Transport eine zielgerichtete Zusammenarbeit zwischen den ausführenden Logistikdienstleistern...
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The pressure on companies towards sustainable development is changing the way they are dealing with their supply chain network. Practices are not limited to the company level. They are involving suppliers, customers, government, society and other stakeholders that impact and are impacted by the...
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Zulieferbeziehungen. Demgegenüber gilt das Lieferantenmanagement von Toyota als vorbildlich. Darauf kommt es an, denn Outsourcing und …
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particularly aiming on a steel pipe manufacturing firm in Gujarat, India. Design/Methodology/approach: The conceptual research … engineers of a steel pipe manufacturing company in Gujarat, India. Data was collected using in-depth interview. The …/implications: The study has been made specifically for ABC steel pipe manufacturing industry in Gujarat, India and may not be …
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We examine the implementation of efficient decisions about accepting a special order with asymmetric information by means of a dual transfer pricing mechanism based on Ronen and McKinney (1970). The model is designed in a simple fashion, two vertically related divisions within a firm...
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This paper investigates the wealth effects of private equity (PE) investor purchases of shares in German quoted companies. It is the first study to analyze these effects for the German market which is particularly interesting due to its distinct characteristics with regard to the ownership...
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Goal structures in family firms seems of particular interest to the field as the overall orientation and the objectives of family firms are determined in an area of potential conflict between the two subsystems of firm and family. We asked shareholders of German family firms to rate the...
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This paper outlines the foundations of corporate governance. The discussion includes a review on the modern corporation, transaction costs theory, agency costs theory, legal investor protection, investor protection by corporate governance and its various mechanisms, as well as an overview of the...
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Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure. In contrast,...
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This paper reports the results of an individual real effort laboratory experiment where subjects are paid for measured performance. Measured performance equals actual performance plus noise. We compare a stable environment where the noise is small with a volatile environment where the noise is...
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