This book is focused on the concept and functions of corporate charitable donations. Charitable giving practices have always been a feature of society and will continue to be so in the future. In any case, the current and more widespread understanding of what corporate charitable donations are...

Cover -- IBFD Doctoral Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- Note to Readers -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Conundrum -- 1.1. Gifts and donations as a pre-regulatory reality -- 1.2. The subjective benefits of giving -- 1.3....

"There is one thing that every business owner has in common --the pains and heartaches of running a business. If luck most avoid major pitfalls and eventually become successful. Most entrepreneurs are too busy starting their busy to pay attention to the numerous legal details that are involved...

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...

German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in tariff regime which has characterised Germany...

In dieser Studie werden zunächst die konzeptionellen Grundlagen des Customer Relationship Managements und der sog. CRM-Systeme dargestellt sowie die Einbettung von Data Warehouse und Data Mining Technologie in diesem Kontext erörtert. Danach erfolgt eine Literatur gestützte Diskussion...

It is well documented that a large share of new products does not survive their first year in the market. Research reported in this paper examined the relationship between product quality and innovation success. In contrast to existing product innovation literature that focused on industrial...