Demand is growing for a better understanding of how assets are priced in countries outside of the U.S.While financial data are available for many firms world-wide, it is important to have a reliable andreplicable method of constructing high-quality systematic risk factors from these data. This...

The paper addresses the business value discussion of IT focussing on Business ProcessManagement (BPM), where BPM is understood as an integrated management concept withIT as a critical enabling technology. To answer the question if there could be any financialbenefit effects due to implementation...

The discipline of strategic management has the goal to better understand why companiessucceed based on a holistic, overarching perspective. However, until now the strategicmanagement literature has not provided a conceptually unifying framework that explicitlyintegrates the different dimensions...