This paper explores the dynamics in strategic alliances between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations (corporates). Despite the volumes written on this subject, few studies take into account this context of interorganisational relationships. The dynamics in strategic...

The issue of precarious employment has gained increasing currency over recent years, as OECD countries have shifted away from traditional standard employment models. Nevertheless, there has been little empirical research on the experiences of nonstandard workers and the links that can be...

The research analyses two perspectives of pricing methods - the accounting and the marketing one. The research purpose is to analyse both ways and find out how reasonable price is formed - meaning fairly for both the company and the customer. The literature is analysed and the most important is...

This master thesis examines the question of how financial planning and cost accounting instruments are implemented in startups depending on their development stages. For this purpose, eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with executives of startups in different development stages and...

Im Vergleich zur weit in die Geschichte zurückreichenden Tradition der Banken, steckt deren internes Rechnungswesen noch immer in den Kinderschuhen. Erst in den 1920er Jahren begann eine intensive, Theorie und Praxis erfassende Auseinandersetzung mit den drängenden Fragen der Bankkalkulation....

Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...

Urban pride is an individual and collective response to living in a given city. Unlike other emotions such as life satisfaction or happiness with which it is weakly positively correlated, pride involves stake holding; to be proud of something requires having an investment in its success...