The quest for enduring success -- What--a framework for enduring success -- How--strategies to implement the framework -- Who--a commentary on leadership -- So what?--a comparison with prior studies -- Epilogue : learning from the history of outstanding corporations

Enduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies, targeting nine...

Pension accounting is anything but conservative since earnings can be protected from actuarial gains and losses. This paper shows that therefore conservatism measures based on models of the asymmetric relationship between earnings and positive versus negative stock returns are biased downwards....