The paper tries to put forward a hypothesis for the changing fortunes of old industrial areas. A regionalized version of the product cycle hypothesis is used as a link for various aspects of the lost dynamics of this type of region, as interpreted by different models of regional growth. It...

Strategic partnering has become a common place when introducing innovations to systems markets. In standards battles, network affiliation has been used as a market signal to create confidence in a format's success. This paper's authors thus develop and test a model aimed at finding the right...

Eliminating unacceptable attribute levels when measuring consumer preferences represents an important problem, both academically and managerially, since including unacceptable attribute levels in preference measurement may cause distorted parameter estimates and result in inaccurate estimation...

The definition of an attribute-set for preference measurement is still a unsolved problem since all common methods only concentrate on the attributes but are not applicable to reveal the relevant attribute-levels. We therefore propose a new method called "EVAS" (Evoked-set Based Attribute...

Within empirical preference measurement, conjoint analysis (CA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) are common methods with CA dominating marketing research and practice and AHP becoming more and more relevant as a tool of decision analysis. Both methods mainly differ with respect to their...

Innerhalb von Studien zur Pr�ferenzmessung k�nnen verschiedene Eigenschaftsarten genutzt werden, die unterschiedliche Assoziationen bei den Entscheidungstr�gern hervorrufen und somit auch zu unterschiedlichen Pr�ferenzen f�hren k�nnen. Bei den Eigenschaftsarten...

In diesem Arbeitspapier werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zur Zusammensetzung und Verg�tung des Aufsichtsrats kleiner und mittelst�ndischer Aktiengesellschaften vorgelegt. Befragt wurden mittels eines im Internet verf�gbaren Fragebogens die Vorst�nde...

Clusters and networks have received renewed attention in recent years not only as a tool for regional development in general but as an institution of knowledge creation and diffusion between the knowledge infrastructure of a region and the firms within the clusters. They are therefore often...

Nowadays, it is widely accepted that knowledge and learning are the core of competitiveness, international division of labour and agglomeration and exclusion phenomena. Yet we are still in need of a better understanding of the processes which allow access by individual regions both to codified...

The paper gives a socio-economic analysis of the 89 regions of the Russian Federation. This analysis is implemented in four steps: 1) elaboration of a set of indicators defining the socio-economic situation in all 89 regions of the Russian Federation plus procedures to replace groups of...