Family firms are an important phenomenon of the German capital market. We analyse the broadest market segment of the German Stock Exchange, the CDAX, for the years 1998 to 2008. According to a founding-family definition almost half of all CDAX-listed non-financial firms in Germany can be...

Börsennotierte Familienunternehmen wirtschaften nachhaltiger und erfolgreicher als Nicht-Familienunternehmen. Dies zeigt sich an einem annähernd doppelt so hohen jährlichen Beschäftigungszuwachs und einem höheren Umsatz bei familiengeführten Unternehmen. Dabei gilt: Je höher der...

We empirically study the use of value–based management systems in listed German firms and examineimplications for firms’ stock market performance. Using a novel, hand–collected data set covering1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value–based management systems become...

While some of the modern performance measures used in managerial accounting rely on cash flow based figuresothers try to take advantage of the information content of accounting figures. However, whether the additionalinformation content in the accrual components of earnings improves the internal...