Das Geschäftsklima im sächsischen verarbeitenden Gewerbe hat sich im März nach einer Besserung im Februar wieder eingetrübt. Das ist vor allem auf eine wieder skeptischere Einschätzung der Entwicklung in den kommenden Monaten zurückzuführen. Auch hinsichtlich der künftigen...

We use a unique rich newly built data set for German manufacturing enterprises to investigate the relationship between product diversification and the stability of sales and employment. We find that contrary to portfolio theoretic considerations more diversified firms exhibit a higher...

The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary...

Sales surprise (SS) is a significant factor in a firm's inventory turnover (ITO). In order to estimate SS, it is necessary to select an appropriate approach of sales forecasting. The current study's main purpose is to examine the effects of SS on ITO. The data was gained from the Albertina...