The aim of this article is to discuss the dilemmas over the integration of accounting in EU member states. The dilemma could be divided into the following main groups. Dilemma of the user of financial statements. This dilemma consists in determining for whom the integration of accounting in EU...

Der Beitrag zeichnet mit Hilfe einer Zitations- und Kozitationsanalyse die Struktur und Entwicklungder deutschsprachigen Controllingforschung nach. Die Untersuchung beruht aufeiner Analyse der Zitations- und Kozitationsstrukturen in 643 Beiträgen zu Controllingthemen,die im Zeitraum von 1970...

Numerous empirical studies reveal that accounting numbers – equity as well as earnings’ measures - have lost value relevance, i.e. explanatory power for stock market capitalisation and/or abnormal returns, during the last decades. This effect is of particular significance after the rise of the...

The Great Recession renewed calls for a return of state activism in support of the European economy. The widespread nationalization of ailing companies and the growing activism of national development banks led many to celebrate the reappearance of industrial policy. By reviewing the evolution...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

The article analyzes the integration of Central and Eastern European (CEE) trade unions in European policy-making. With reference to transnational cooperation in two fields of European-level decision making (issues concerning freedom of services and a European minimum wage), it investigates the...