Introduction -- Game Theory Models in Finance -- Game Theoretic Models in Accounting -- GT and Marketing -- Game Theoretic Models in Operations Management and Information Systems -- Incentive Contracting and Franchise Decisions -- Game Theory and the Practice of Bargaining -- GT Models of...

This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter’s important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE). It deals with the central idea, principles, and methodology of New Institutional Economics and explores its relation to sociology and law. Other chapters...

By joining the World Trade Organization China legitimizes its own brand of 'catch-up' industrialization. What has been learnt from the respective negotiations? What does China's entry mean for emerging Asia and the developing world at large? What implications will it have on the multilateral...

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major...

Reviews progress in batteries by researchers in three leading Japanese battery companies: Sony, Matsushita and Sanyo, and then states the future problems in battery development. It also examines development of solid state ionics for batteries, including lithium ion battery, metal-hydride...

Acknowlegements and Foreward -- 1.Introduction: Global perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -- Global overviews -- 2. AFRICA: Ethics and sustainability within SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling, constraining and contaminating relationships by Mollie Painter-Morland and...

Produktivität stellt eine der zentralen Herausforderungen des Dienstleistungsmanagements dar. Dabei gilt es, nicht nur bewährte Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Sachgüterbereich an die spezifischen Gegebenheiten des Dienstleistungssektors anzupassen. Es ist vielmehr auch eine vertiefte...

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Nutzungsrechte, Rechnungsabgrenzungsposten, schwebende Geschäfte — ein „magisches Dreieck“ der Bilanzierung -- Zusammensetzung des Gesamtbetrags der Einkünfte in Abhängigkeit von der Höhe des Einkommens -- IFRS auch als Grundlage für die Ausschüttungs- und Steuerbemessung -- Zur...

Personalentwicklung: Gegenstand, Prozessmodell, Erfolgsfaktoren -- Analyse des Personalentwicklungsbedarfs -- Instrumente der Personalentwicklung -- Basistechniken der Personalentwicklung -- Förderung des Lerntransfers -- Evaluation der Personalentwicklung -- Arbeitsrecht und...