For many years, services attracted most of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries. Recently, a distinctive type of business services, i.e., advanced business services (ABS), has become the focal point in FDI in the region. This paper is aimed at defining...

Durch die komplexe Vernetzung verschiedenster Unternehmen in der Lieferkette zeigt sich, dass heutzutage nahezu jedes industrielle Unternehmen auf die externe Beschaffung von Gütern und Dienstleistungen angewiesen ist. Dabei hat insbesondere die Dienstleistungsbeschaffung in vergangenen Jahren...

Are audit partners rewarded for the revenues they generate by selling consulting services? The question is relevant because of the concern that audit firms have focused on consulting services that are more lucrative and have higher margins than auditing, and that the profit orientation may have...

This is the Final Report of the study "SMART 2016/0032 - Switching of Cloud Services Providers "entrusted by the European Commission DG CONNECT to IDC and Arthur's Legal. The focus of the study is to gather evidence concerning the practices of cloud service providers in relation to data and...