The COVID-19 crisis and countries’ reactions led to analyses about how governance systems influenced the management of the pandemics and how COVID-19 influenced businesses. The concept of institutional resilience transcends these directions of research but we know little about what it means...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extreme case of the Icelandic banking crisis in relation to critical governance issues at governmental, industry and civil society levels. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study of the Icelandic banking collapse in 2008....

Die Digitalisierung hat neue Kanäle für Finanztransaktionen eröffnet, die sich für Banken als echte Konkurrenz erweisen können. Digitale Beratungsangebote und Crowdlending bieten den Kunden Chancen, ihr Vermögen unabhängig von Banken zu verwalten und Kredite untereinander zu vergeben....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical insight into the impact of a financial crisis on capital structure of private firms. Specifically, the authors use the example of the systemic Icelandic financial crisis from 2008 to 2010 and analyze the influence of internally...

Purpose: This paper asks the question of whether more environmental uncertainty affects the design of performance measurement systems in terms of a greater variety of performance measures and whether this leads to more management satisfaction with the performance measurement system and improved...

This study analyzes investors' perception of placebic information and its impact on stock price estimates. We initiate a questionnaire-based stock price forecast competition among 196 undergraduate students in business administration. We show that placebic information increases the perceived...

FinTech has been in the focus of discussion for quite some time. However, the market share of FinTech companies is still relatively small compared to that of more traditional financial services. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the status quo, current developments, and challenges ahead...