The provision of value, as a marketing issue, is receiving increasing attention from managers and scholars. This attention, in combination with strong calls for better quantification and stronger measures in marketing, has lead to increased interest in the assessment, quantified where possible,...

We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...

Successful innovative activity is a major contribution to the intangible capital of firms. Although its importance is generally acknowledged, the contribution to companies' profits is a priori unclear. We present the results of an empirical study on the effects of the patent stock on...

Soll oder Haben? Wie man das αunsichtbare Vermögen± bewertet, organisiert und strategisch steuert. Längst ist erwiesen, dass der Erfolg eines Unternehmens und einer Nation weniger von Warenlagern, Maschinen oder Finanzkapital abhängt, als von unsichtbarem Kapital: Know-how, Talent,...