Substantial efforts have contributed to overcome the scarcity of hidden champions research. Nevertheless, literature has missed to compile a comprehensive review. Drawing on the insights of 94 publications, four strands of literature could be distinguished to unravel the essence of hidden...

This paper adds to the literature of external corporate venturing, especially corporate venture capitals (CVCs) and corporate accelerators (CAs) by providing an overview of the German corporate venturing market and by offering first intriguing findings based on a novel and unique hand-collected...

Corporate governance is a recent concept that encompasses the costs caused by managerial misbehavior. Corporate governance is concerned with how organizations in general, and corporations in particular, produce value and how that value is distributed among the members of the corporation, its...

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German universities in the process of transforming public funding into the multiple outputs of a university, i.e. graduating students, publishing research, and patenting activity. We do this with a particular focus on the policies...

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German university system in the process of translating public funding into the multiple outputs of a university, i.e. graduating students, publishing research, and patenting activity. We do this with a particular focus on the policies...

Dem Phänomen "Corporate Governance" nähern sich Juristen und Ökonomen bisher weitgehend aus einem diametralen Blickwinkel heraus. Betrachten wir die zwei Enden des Intervalls von Austauschprozessen, so erfolgt(e) der Blickwinkel der Ökonomen weitgehend aus Richtung des Marktes, während...

Topics in corporate governance have been around in the literature almost for a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on the large and public company. While this research has improved our understanding of how large corporations are governed, corporate governance in small...

After WWII, the German Economy increased rapidly, often described as the "Deutsche Wirtschaftswunder". Within a short period, Germany reached the status of unemployment and human capital gets the critical factor and resource in shaping economic growth. While the bottle neck with blue collar...

Dieser Dieser Beitrag stellt zur Diskussion, welchen Beitrag die "Compliance" im Rahmen der Corporate Governance-Forschung einnehmen kann, wie sich diese Einordnung aus einer öko-nomischen Sichtweise heraus begründen lässt und welche Auswirkungen zu erwarten sind. Mag auf den ersten Blick der...

We conduct an event study to assess the stock market evaluation of public takeover announcements. Unlike the majority of previous research, we specifically focus on acquisitions targeted at newly public IPO-firms and show that the stock market positively evaluates these M&As as R&D. However,...