Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. It also features numerical simulations of policy competition and numerical solutions to policy cooperation

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Concession Bargaining? -- Chapter 2. The World of Concession Bargaining -- Chapter 3. The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Second Wave: The Ultra-Concession Bargaining of the Past Decade -- Chapter 5. The Message Behind the New...

This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional hockey. While professional football, baseball, and basketball have been the focus of sports economists for decades, professional hockey has been left out of most economic analyses...

Dieses Buch unterstützt mittelständische Unternehmer und Führungskräfte dabei, den Prozess der Unternehmensintegration nach Unternehmenszukäufen erfolgreich zu meistern und beliebte Fallstricke zu vermeiden. Denn mit dem Abschluss des Kaufvertrags beginnt erst die eigentliche Arbeit....

This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

Wilhelm Griga explores benefits of inpatriation, issues, remediation strategies, and factors influencing inpatriate assignment effectiveness to better fulfill individual and organizational demands. The author covers inpatriation theory and presents empirical research results on inpatriates from...

Christoph Rose provides a broader differentiation of the perspective on family-owned companies. In contrast to several studies that merely discuss family-owned companies and non-family companies, his analysis is based on family influence, so the dominating heterogeneity of family-owned companies...

Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and the impact of turnaround on the family role in family firms. Based on a specifically developed integrated conceptual turnaround model, the author...

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...