Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefe in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrument der Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyse über die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- und Funktionalstrategie...

The effect of a general school choice reform on student performance is studied in a Swedish institutional setting. A rich set of individual level data allows estimation of a value added specification, mitigating problems with omission of relevant variables. Increased school competition is shown...

Wegen fehlender amtlicher Statistiken schätzt das IfM Bonn seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre die Anzahl der vor der Übergabe stehenden Unternehmen in Deutschland. Die vorliegende Schätzung für den Zeitraum 2014 bis 2018 kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass etwa 135.000 Unternehmen zur Übergabe anstehen,...

A network market is a market in which the benefit each consumer derives from a good is an increasing function of the number of consumers who own the same or similar goods. A major obstacle that plagues the introduction of a network good is the ability to reach critical mass, namely, the minimum...

This paper incorporates publication uncertainty in a game between researchers and journal editors and examines its effects on quantity and quality of published research. A stylized differential Stackelberg game between journal editors and academic authors is considered, where authors seek to...

Um den Klimawandel zu begrenzen, sind Anstrengungen auf globaler Ebene notwendig. Um sich an die Folgen des Klimawandels anzupassen, sind jedoch auch individuelle Strategien zur Risikovorsorge effektiv. Allerdings stehen frühzeitigen Anpassungsaktivitäten entgegen, dass die möglichen...

This paper considers the optimal design of dynamic research contests when the buyer can set time-dependent prizes. We derive the buyer-optimal contest and show that it entails an increasing prize schedule. Remarkably, this allows the buyer to implement a global stopping rule. In particular, the...

The current article is aimed at surveying the strategic moves of high performing local industrial organizations that officially shared some aspects of their business achievements with local communities, participating in the surveys of leading periodicals in Bulgaria. It reveals that business...

The current article unveils and analyzes some important factors, influencing diversity in strategic decision-making approaches in local companies. Researcher’s attention is oriented to survey important characteristics of the strategic moves, undertaken by leading companies in Bulgaria.