The value chain is a widely used framework for industry and firm analysis. To our knowledge, the conceptualisation of value chains is so far guided by “soft” criteria like intuition of experts rather than clearly stated methods with regard to the value chain boundaries and the granularity as...

The goal of the German Software Industry Survey is to investigate the current state of the German software industry on a yearly basis. Conclusions are made based on grounded data and empirical findings. We hope that this type of research will contribute to the work of both, practitioners and...

The value chain concept disaggregates a firm into the various activities it performs. Abstracting from the firm-level this concept has also been applied to industries as a whole. In this paper we conceptualize a software specific value chain and provide a first proof of concept. Our approach...

The cumulative dissertation of Michael Nofer examines whether Social Media platforms can be used to predict stock returns. Market-relevant information is available on various platforms on the Internet, which consist largely of user generated content. For instance, emotions can be extracted in...

Assetmanager, die das Wertsteigerungspotenzial ihrer Immobilienportfolios während der Haltephase nutzen wollen, sind auf ein professionelles Management der Liegenschaften angewiesen. Diese Immobilienmanagement-Dienstleistung wird zunehmend von einem externen Outsourcing-Partner bezogen. Anders...

Die Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen von Unternehmensübernahmen und Zusammenschlüssen in der internationalen Agrarindustrie auf die Kapitalmarktbewertung der beteiligten Unternehmen. Die Stichprobe umfasst 295 weltweite Transaktionen in einem Untersuchungszeitraum von 1994 bis 2013. Die...