Blockchain technology, which became known for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, enables the digital representation of ownership without trusted parties and sets the foundation for new kinds of collaboration in business networks. Current research still focuses primarily on the technical aspects of...

Since its emergence in the 1970s, transaction cost economics (TCE) has become a leading approach in the research on contracts, firm organization and strategy, antitrust, marketing, inter-firm collaboration and entrepreneurship. With contributions by leading scholars in economics, law and...

There is a lovely apocryphal story, generally told about Dwight D. Eisenhower during his time as president of Columbia University: The school was growing, necessitating an expansion of the campus, which produced a very hot dispute between two groups of planners and architects about where the...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Strukturwandels im Finanzdienstleistungssektor sowie aktueller Ertragsschwierigkeiten in der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft diskutieren die Autoren Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten bei der Verbundkooperation in der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. Schwerpunkte bilden einerseits...