A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...

The application of rational choice to non-market decision making has revolutionizedcomparative economics. A fruitful methodological symmetry now prevails in theanalysis of economic systems, emphasizing how their underlying institutions affectindividual incentives. Most importantly, comparative...

Over seventy years after The Keynesian Revolution and the ascendancy of macroeconomics,a survey of the theoretical landscape shows answers in some areas and questions loomingstill in others. Within the span of the last decade, the elds of economic growth and de-velopment have undergone what...

Im Marketing konkurrieren eine Reihe von Theorien um Aufmerksamkeit, Unterstützung durch akademische Forschung und theoretische Glaubwürdigkeit. Es gibt z.B. Ansätze aus so unterschiedlichen Bereichen wie der Volkswirtschaftslehre, Psychologie und Soziologie. Alles in allem ist die...

Die seit Sommer 2007 anhaltende Krise an den weltweiten Finanzmärkten, welche mittlerweile andere Wirtschaftszweige wie etwa den Automobilsektor infiziert hat, ist auch auf die Tätigkeit zumindest der großen US-Ratingagenturen zurückzuführen. Strukturierte Forderungen wurden zu positiv...

In a recent article published in this journal, Jon Dubrow examines the acquisitions of passive minority equity interests. The focus of his article is the treatment of these transactions by the courts and the federal antitrust agencies, including their treatment of the investment-only exemption...

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...