Over the last years, the banking sector in Vietnam has been going through the restructuring period, in order to cope with non-performing loans and build up mergers and acquisitions. This paper applies the non-parametric method proposed by Bogetoft and Wang in 2005 to evaluate the bank merger...

This study uses MFIs as a unit of analysis to examine the factors of human, financial and social capital that increase the financing of microenterprises' identification of opportunities and exploitation in Cameroon .To attain this objective, a questionnaire was used to collect data from 207 MFIs...

For successful operation, banks are constantly implementing changes in their organizational structure. These changes are due to various internal and external factors. Organizational structures within the banks are complex and specific for the banking sector, as well as for each bank. In this...

Zur Vorteilhaftigkeit des Hedgings für Banken In einem einfach gehaltenen Bankmodell untersucht unser Beitrag das Futures-Hedging einer kompetitiven Bank, die sich Risiken im Aktivgeschäft ausgesetzt sieht. Folgende Aspekte werden herausgearbeitet: Zunächst erfolgt die Analyse der...

While asset markets are traditionally left to economic inquiry, the paper shows that there is both a legal possibility and an incentive for organizing within such markets and for exercising market share-based strategic maneuvering. It proposes, based on sensemaking theory, Implicit Organizations...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of previous experience and learning capabilities on survival in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D...

This paper analyzes the formation of networks in which each agent is assumed to possess some information of value to the other agents in the network. Agents derive payoff from having access to the information of others through communication or spillovers via the links between them. Linking...

The question of whether firms gain competitiveness through local networks and clusters becomes more relevant than ever as globalization proceeds. This is particularly true for traditional and craft-based clusters, districts and business networks. A central question emerging for these types of...

In the 1990s, a number of municipalities started privatizing their energy utilities; in recent years, there has been an intensive debate about whether a paradigm shift has taken place since then. Cities and municipalities have considered putting the energy, water, gas and heat supply back into...

Mit mehr als 6 000 Versorgungsunternehmen ist die Trinkwasserversorgung in Deutschland stark fragmentiert. Hierdurch stellen sich Fragen nach möglichen Kostenvorteilen einer Konsolidierung des Sektors und daraus resultierenden Preissenkungsmöglichkeiten für die VerbraucherInnen. In diesem...