We conduct an experiment with professional internal auditors and evaluate their performance and objectivity, measured as the extent to which they truthfully report the performance of other participants in a real-effort task. It has been suggested in the literature that incentive-based...

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) have become a central instrument of organizational development. Consequently, research on M&A has developed into a complex research area of management science in recent years. However, the different perspectives are so heterogeneous that a holistic view is often...

Entwicklungsgeschichte des strategischen Denkens -- Begriffliche Abgrenzungen -- Theoretische Perspektiven des Strategischen Managements -- Die empirische Strategieprozessforschung im Überblick -- Die Phase der strategischen Zielplanung -- Die Phase der strategischen Analyse und Prognose -- Die...