O'Hara G. (2005) A journey without maps: the regional policies of the 1964-70 British Labour Government, Regional Studies 39 , 1183-1195. This paper examines four influences on British regional policy in the late 1960s: party politics in the context of the economic environment; the structure of...

Literature reviews summarizing empirical planning studies often state that results of these studies are not comparable and not capable of being integrated. Hence, the progress of knowledge accumulation in this important field of management accounting research is constrained and some questions...

While the relevance of services increased over the last decades, planning and calculation for services is often disregarded. Instead of following a theoretically clear process services are often offered to the customer unsystematically. In this paper a theoretical based concept for...

Despite all planning efforts improvisation is a necessary, planning supplementing form of decision making, which finds nearly none attention in the literature. In the paper nature and influence factors of improvisations in companies are examined based on literature investigations of musical and...

The following paper analyzes the results of empirical controlling research in German-speaking countries from 1990 to 2007 with focus on how far the characteristics of the planning system have an impact on business success. We identify fifteen empirical studies on this subject from which we...

Das Geschäftsklima bei den freischaffenden Architekten in Deutschland hat sich zu Beginn des zweiten Quartals 2013 spürbar verbessert. Das ergab die vierteljährliche Architektenumfrage des ifo Instituts. Es ist so gut wie zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre – also der Zeit des...

Obwohl wenige große Unternehmen Ein-Produkt Organisationen sind, widmet die wissenschaftliche Forschung dem Management von Mehr-Produkt Portfolien erstaunlich wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Trotz einer Vielzahl von Arbeiten im Umfeld der Diversifikations- und M&A-Forschung wird dem Corporate Portfolio...