Communication is at the center of any business transaction. Unfortunately until recently, communication has rarely been assigned its proper relevance in traditional business studies at German universities. This paper attempts to demonstrate why communication science can and should be an integral...

Das Äquivalenzprinzip der Finanzmathematik vergleicht und bewertet Zahlungsströme. Dazu ist eine Bewertung von Zeit und von Unsicherheit notwendig. Aus einem mathematischen Blickwinkel gesehen ist die Bewertung eine Äquivalenzrelation. Diese Darstellungsweise gibt einen einheitlichen formalen...

The economics of the Croatian war differ considerably from what is often thought of as typical features of a war economy. Most strikingly, while wars are often perceived as generating a tendency towards repressed inflation and a command economy the Croatian economy actually moved in the opposite...

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency...

The evaluation of consulting services is a widely, but controversially discussed issue. While there is obviously an increasing need for appropriate evaluation, there are critics questioning the applicability of evaluation methods as well as the motivation to assess. We provide a framework that...

Um dem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck standhalten und den veränderten Kundenwünschen nachkommen zu können, wandeln sich viele Industrieunternehmen vom klassischen Produkt zum umfassenden Lösungsanbieter, d.h. zum Erzeuger und Vermarkter so genannter hybrider Produkte. In diesem Arbeitspapier...

Die Informationsflut, die dem Entscheidungsträger im Internet aber auch in internen Quellen begegnet, lässt sich nur schwer bewältigen, Daher ist die verfügbare Menge der Informationen zunächst in interessante und uninteressante Informationen zu unterteilen. Dem Entscheidungsträger sind...

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...

A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge can be transformed into products and processes and is, in this way, exploited commercially. The ability to produce, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing...