This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...

In this paper we account for observed management practice in the estimation of aproduction function. In our model management practice is observable and we allow it toaffect output directly (neutral shift) and indirectly by affecting input productivity. Thisformulation gives us a semiparametric...

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog productionfunction. Time and management induced...

Die Veränderung der Welt durch die digitale Revolution hat gerade erst begonnen. Nicht mehr nur überlegene Produkte und Produktionsprozesse entscheiden im Wettbewerb: Mit innovativen Geschäftsmodellen werden bestehende Branchen umgewälzt und neue entstehen. Der Artikel gibt einen kurzen...

Given their central role in economic decisionmaking at the firm-level, one might be inclined to assume that the role of Managers and of Management, would occupy a central place in the field of Economic Geography. In existing literature from the field, however, the ‘Manager’ remains a...

This paper investigates the determination and consequences of organizational changes (OC) in a panel of British and French establishments. Organizational changes include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions, and increased multitasking. We argue that OC and skills...

Face aux évolutions des périodes récentes, qu’adviendra-t-il du contrôle de gestion. Alors que, dans ses fondements, la discipline fait le lien entre une approche financière et opérationnelle et une orientation organisationnelle et managériale, elle devient de plus en plus technique...

A l’aide d’une recherche empirique de trois ans, cet article souligne la difficulté, pour un chercheur en sciences de gestion, d’étudier des « sujets sensibles »(Renzetti et al., 1993). Le thème choisi pour illustrer notre propos est celui de l’échec en entreprise, abordé ici sous...

Business agents are today facing with a dynamic economic environment transformed by the direct effects of the economic crisis. In these circumstances the managers of the entities are forced to adapt to the economic activities by various types of decisions. A special attention is paid to...

Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network or distributed architectures. This migration as well as...