This paper focuses on analyzing the cash supply network, in which the central bank - as an institutional member - acts as a key influencing node/party. By analyzing the case study example of the Hungarian cash supply, the paper introduces the different kinds of special network patterns that can...

This paper provides an overview of the literature on dynamic pricing with strategic customers. In the past, research on dynamic pricing was mostly concerned with optimally pricing products over time in a market with myopic customers. In recent years, the consideration of strategic customers, who...

Purpose of the exploratory study in this paper is to provide a first test of the transferability of success factors known from virtual teams to an innovative virtual research team. Investigating a real R&D cooperation with two virtual (regional & national) and one local research groups permits a...

This paper presents an heuristics of economic action in South Korea which is based on a qualitative study conducted on-site. It focuses on the idea of experience-near concepts - as introduced by Clifford Geertz - and is verbalised by the terms affiliation, indebtedness and mediation. The...

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,...

As a solution for the prompt adaptation to an instable environment, organizational studies suggest promoting organizational learning and creating some organizations that are capable of learning (“learning organization”). But what does learning mean and how can it become an attribute of an...

This study contributes to an understanding of the practice of social reporting in Italian bank foundations. Specifically, the study examines the views of the preparers of social reports. In Italy, the development of social reports for non-government organizations (NGOs) is voluntary.The research...

Nowadays the quality became a strategic element in the service companies because it determines the competitivity at the highest level. In the European Charta of Quality, the quality is defined as the key to competitivity in companies, being forced to work for promoting the common objective of...

This paper examines the increased use of credit cards for debt financing among startups. Credit cards are useful for startups because of their near-universal acceptance, accessibility and anonymity. But an increasing number of startups are relying exclusively on credit card debt for financing,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether adopting OECD-prescribed corporate governance principles can solve the major corporate governance problem in an emerging economy - controlling-shareholder expropriation. We argue that none of any "good corporate governance practices" in OECD...