In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

Passion – in the sense of fervent commitment to action – and compassion – understood as sensitive openness for social and ecological concerns – are not a sure formula for business success. Whether social or ecological entrepreneurs, who find themselves under pressure from market...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt auf der Basis einer umfassenden Dienstleistungsdefinition, die den Dienstleistungsprozess in den Vordergrund stellt, dass die wesentlichen Werttreiber im Dienstleistungsprozess vornehmlich im Bereich des Intellektuellen Kapitals zu suchen sind. Gleichzeitig wird die...

Keskustelualoitteessa esitellään Suomen metsäteollisuuden ja bioteollisuuden panos-tuotosrakenteita, metsäteollisuuden kansainvälistä kustannuskilpailukykyä ja mahdollisuuksia arvonluontiin soveltamalla bioteknisiä innovaatioita tuotantoprosesseissa. Yleisesti ottaen metsäteollisuus...

In this study we have collected information by interviewing all identified parties within the Finnish forest sector who might have a potential biotechnology connection : university research groups, research institutions, small and medium-sized biotechnology-companies and up to the largest forest...

Semiconductor chips and their production are foundational for future innovation, future developments of digitalization, and economic prosperity. However, the role of production when discussing who is creating and capturing value across different industrial supply chains has often been...

Public agency strategic analysis (PASA) is different from public policy analysis because public agency executives face numerous constraints that those performing "unconstrained" policy analysis do not. It is also different from private sector strategic analysis. But because of similar...

By adopting a firm-focused perspective to value creation in order to unveil the firm-specific meanings and interpretations of value creation, the paper explores how companies with a different position in a global value chain perceive the internal and external value they create. Based on...

Die jüngeren Entwicklungen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik haben zu einer mehr und mehr globalisierten Welt geführt, in der geographische Beschränkungen entfallen und sich Unternehmen ständig neuen Herausforderungen gegenübergestellt sehen. Ein solch dynamisches Umfeld...

Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation...