IT-Compliance bezeichnet einen Zustand, in dem alle die IT des Unternehmens betreffenden und verbindlich vorgegebenen bzw. als verbindlich akzeptierten Vorgaben nachweislich eingehalten werden. Damit stellt IT-Compliance einen auf den IT-Einsatz im Unternehmen spezialisierten Teilbereich der...

This paper deals with the impact of voluntary strategy disclosure in management reports on the cost of equity capital. Such an impact is not obvious, as investors might consider strategy information as “cheap talk” and therefore ignore it. We analyze a sample of 100 German listed firms from...

"Die traditionelle Budgetsteuerung ist überholt und verursacht mehr Schaden als Nutzen. Die klassische Budgetsteuerung ist zu zeitaufwändig, zu unflexibel, zu bürokratisch und verhindert heute die Nutzung des vollen Potentials eines Unternehmens". [Daum, H./2006]. Trotz dieser These findet...

The present article presents the empirical findings of a questionnaire survey carried out in Greece, exploring the effects of the recent financial crisis on organizational behavior in the country's public sector. The study focuses on the impact of the financial crisis on organizational...

Die traditionelle Budgetsteuerung ist überholt und verursacht mehr Schaden als Nutzen. Die klassische Budgetsteuerung ist zu zeitaufwändig, zu unflexibel, zu bürokratisch und verhindert heute die Nutzung des vollen Potentials eines Unternehmens. [Daum, H./2006]. Trotz dieser These findet man...

Risk-return association is one of the major concerns for economics and business disciplines. While the standard economics and finance theory assume that the sign of the relationship should be positive (individuals are assumed to be risk adverse), since Bowman (1980) many researchers have found...

In the literature for strategic management a number of authors have explained in which ways information and communication technology (ICT) is being deployed in the strategy of the firm. In management books and articles in management journals a variety of cases have been described how specific...

This paper examines the use of the Integrated ABC-and-EVA Information System for the management of new technology projects. The advantages of integrating the Activity-Based Costing system with the Economic Value Added financial performance measure and the positive impacts of this integration on...

The entry of new actors is an important, but not sufficiently examined aspect of research about regional clusters. This paper contributes to the existing literature about cluster entry by extending prior research. It incorporates the possibilities of negative and positive selection of entrants...

This paper proposes a performance and cost measurement system that integrates the Economic Value Added criteria (EVA) with Process Based Costing (PBC). The EVA-PBC methodology allows us to implement the EVA management logic non only at the firm level, but also at lower levels of the...