We analyze the evolution of the innovation process in the US defence industry. We show that, in spite of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, its economical and social characteristics are in the continuity with those of the Cold War period. Plus, the shareholder value creation confirms and...

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

La lecture des rapports annuels 1998 et 1999 des sociétés du CAC 40, guidée par un dictionnaire des thèmes en rapport avec le gouvernement d’entreprise et la création de valeur, montre l’évolution considérable de la communication financière. Cinq catégories de sociétés supportant...

We suggest a joint optimization model for a firm’s hedging and leverage decisions that helps to establish an integrated framework for value creation. Rather than artificially separating the two interrelated parts of the firm’s financial policy, we treat both corporate decision variables as...

In preparing to comply with the new International Financial Reporting Standards and the Basel II Accord's capital adequacy standards, leading banks are leveraging investments in these regulations by applying risk management and capital allocation best practices to adjust pricing decisions. Among...

Firm value is influenced in many direct and indirect ways by financial risks, which consist of unexpected changes of foreign exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. The fact that a significant number of corporations are committing resources to risk management activi-ties is,...

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value ist in den letzten Jahren Thema einer Vielzahl von Publikationen gewesen. Dass gutes Umweltmanagement grundsätzlich auch Shareholder Value schaffen kann, ist heute weitgehend unbestritten. Es wird allerdings auch deutlich, dass...

Die Studie zeigt, was unter Stakeholder Value verstanden werden kann, wie Shareholder Value und Stakeholder Value gemessen werden können und welche Verbindung zwischen beiden Konzepten besteht. In dieser Studie wird erstmals die Wertbeitragsanalyse von Stakeholderbeziehungen vorgestellt. Anhand...

Finance theory does not provide a comprehensive framework for explaining risk management within the imperfect financial environment in which firms operate. Corporate managers, however, rank risk management as one of their most important objectives. Therefore, it is not surprising that papers on...