Relevant costing is a management accounting term that relates to focusing on only the costs relevant to a specific decision being made. It simplifies the decision-making process as it ignores cost data that is irrelevant, or will not have an impact on the specific decision being made. This study...

The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study investigates the extent of such outsourcing and examines inter-industry variation in the use of in-house rather than independent...

This paper explores approaches to measure the performance of the internal audit function. Based upon three proposed dimensions of formal internal audit performance - material performance, cost and risk - it uses competence research methodology to characterize and structure internal audit...

The main rescource of each football club is its squad. In this context, clubs can apply two main recruiting mechanisms: Either they promote their own youth, or they recruit external (well-)trained players. Current globalisation processes in sports have fundamentally changed the general terms for...

Based on data from Chilean construction projects, we evaluate how the boundary choice of a focal activity is affected by the number of activities integrated elsewhere in a project and by the level of “between complexity” and “within complexity” of those activities. Our results show that...

In this paper, we argue that capabilities serve as shift parameters that result in a change in the critical value of asset specificity at which firms switch from in-sourcing to outsourcing. Capabilities have two effects: they result in a change in firm production costs and in firm governance...

Die Frage nach Eigenfertigung oder Fremdbezug von IT-Servicedienstleistungen ist häufiger Bestandteil unternehmerischer Entscheidungen. Neben bekannten Outsourcingvarianten wie z. B. Application-Service-Provisioning, steht neuerdings eine weitere Alternative zur Verfügung: Cloud-Computing. In...

In the last two decades, outward foreign direct investment from developing and transition economies has been growing rapidly, and new multinational enterprises from these economies have started to compete on the world stage. However, these firms are facing formidable challenges due to their...