In times of global markets, increasing competition and short product life cycles the effective and efficient management of industrial research and development (R&D) activities is of central importance for companies as well as for the whole economy. The efficient allocation of scarce R&D...

Im Ringen um Marktanteile und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit hängt der langfristige Erfolg eines Unternehmens maßgeblich von dessen Leistungen in Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E) ab. Die effiziente Allokation von F&E-Ressourcen stellt somit eine der zentralen Herausforderungen für Unternehmen dar....

Traditionally resources for R and D projects are allocated via planning and budgeting procedures, evaluation methods and hierarchical decision-committees. This book presents resource allocation via internal markets as an alternative to such hierarchical decision procedures. Internal R and D...

We examine the implementation of efficient decisions about accepting a special order with asymmetric information by means of a dual transfer pricing mechanism based on Ronen and McKinney (1970). The model is designed in a simple fashion, two vertically related divisions within a firm...