After several years of practice, the question arises whether performance budgeting as one part of the New Public Management reforms has been effective. Derived from the international literature on experiences with performance budgeting Christiane Lorenz identifies five elements which constitute...

Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part I: From Economic Stabilization to Budget Stabilization: Theory and Tools -- 2. From Economic Stabilization to Budget Stabilization -- 3. Subnational Government Tools for Budget Stabilization -- Part II:...

This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public...

Anja Schwering identifiziert auf Basis einer umfassenden Analyse der bestehenden Literatur ökonomische und verhaltenswissenschaftliche Erklärungsansätze der Ehrlichkeit in der Budgetierung. Darüber hinaus gewinnt die Autorin mittels einer experimentellen Untersuchung neue Erkenntnisse zum...

Den Planungsprozess optimieren -- Bosch geht neue Wege in der Wirtschaftsplanung -- Budgetary Slack: Auf den Fokus kommt es an -- Budgetierung im Wandel -- Unsicherheiten effizient managen -- Wenn Budgetierung mehr als nur Mittel zur Planung ist -- Idee, Nutzen und Anwendung der Campus-Planung...

This book describes a system of mathematical models and methods that can be used to analyze real economic and managerial decisions and to improve their effectiveness. Application areas include: management of development and operation budgets, assessment and management of economic systems using...

Grundlagen der Planung und Budgetierung -- Planung und Budgetierung im Unternehmen -- Instrumente und Methoden der operative Planung und Budgetierung -- Stand und Probleme der Planung und Kontrolle in der Praxis -- Wie lassen sich Planung und Budgetierung verbessern? -- Verbesserte...

Traditionally resources for R and D projects are allocated via planning and budgeting procedures, evaluation methods and hierarchical decision-committees. This book presents resource allocation via internal markets as an alternative to such hierarchical decision procedures. Internal R and D...

This work analyzes the problem of delegated decision-making within firms when investment projects are characterized by the possibility to make subsequent decisions after the initial investment decision has been made. By analyzing this question, the monograph combines and unifies two important...

This book proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel...