Talent has invaded human resource management. We are talking about the war for talents, their development or their specific management. Some go so far as to imagine that the very name of human resources management is now replaced by that of talent management. The emergence of this notion...

Using random H-1B visa lotteries as a natural experiment, we document that firms respond to shortages of high-skilled workers by acquiring firms that have such workers and own negligible amounts of tangible assets. Additional tests show that desire for the targets’ skilled labor is an...

This dissertation examines the profitability and management of public US corporations since the 1950s. I argue that a shift in their ability to turn a profit helps us understand why today’s corporations are run more as portfolios of assets than as organic wholes. Even while aggregate corporate...

Unternehmensgründungen allgemein und innovative Unternehmensgründungen im Besonderen werden oft als Hoffnungsträger der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung angesehen. Damit innovative Neugründungen jedoch erfolgreich am Markt agieren können, müssen sie typische Probleme überwinden, die sich aus...