As from time to time taxation systems are changing deeply, the following two questions arise continually for an entrepreneur: what is the optimal combination of legal form and profit appropriation for his company and what is the optimal splitting of his assets between his private and business...

The paper discusses optimal choices of legal form and of profit distribution under German tax law. We find that in general, partnerships yield higher after-tax profits than corporations. Moverover, profits should be fully distributed rather than retained.

Social networks are currently gaining increasing impact especially in the light of theongoing growth of web-based services like facebook.com. A central challenge for the socialnetwork analysis is the identification of key persons within a social network. In this context,the article aims at...

Service-orientierte Architekturen haben in den letzten Jahren invielen Branchen enorm an Bedeutung gewonnen. Unternehmenversprechen sich davon u. a. eine höhere Agilität der IT unddaraus resultierend eine einfache und kostengünstige Integrationneuer Funktionalitäten. Damit diese Vorteile...

The current financial crisis forces companies to allocate IT budgets more effectively and thusincreases the demand for suitable methods to evaluate the financial impact of IT investments. Thisespecially applies to service-orientation, a design paradigm which facilitates the standardisationand...

Successful IT outsourcing is usually for the benefit of both parties: theoutsourcing client and the service provider. With a fixed price contract, the clienttries to lower project risks and costs by transferring parts of a project to theservice provider at a previously negotiated price. In this...

In practice, it is observable that firms tend to smooth periodical earnings because periodical earnings are considered by capital markets as a proxy for firms' success, and therefore, are often operationalized by the respective compensation plans for managers. Considering financial hedging...

Social networks are currently gaining increasing impact in the light of the ongoing growth of web-based services like facebook.com. One major challenge for the economically successful implementation of selected management activities such as viral marketing is the identification of key persons...

Unternehmen m?ssen im Hinblick auf die Einbindung Web-basierter Dienste in ihre Gesch?ftsabl?ufe sehr genau abw?gen, welche Nutzungspotentiale bestehen und welche Risiken damit einhergehen. Dies gilt sowohl f?r Grundsatzentscheidungen hinsichtlich des Gesch?ftsmodells, der Gesch?ftsprozesse, der...