Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on both public choice and transaction costs theory - have not yet provided a fully comprehensive explanation for municipal contracting out decisions. Therefore, we held...

This study focuses on the experiences of ABC users and non-ABC users within the food and beverage industry in the Netherlands and in the US. Unlike other surveys we chose to study a specific sector, expecting to find more similarities between companies in terms of market and technological...

The Dutch capital market is peculiar, at least because of the three following reasons. Only a relatively small number of Dutch companies is listed at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, because most Dutch companies raise funds from retained earnings, bank- credits and long term borrowing. Furthermore,...

The Dutch capital market is peculiar, at least because of the three following reasons. Only a relatively small number of Dutch companies is listed at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, because most Dutch companies raise funds from retained earnings, bank-credits and long term borrowing. Furthermore,...

This study focuses on the experiences of ABC users and non-ABC users within the food and beverage industry in the Netherlands and in the US. Unlike other surveys we chose to study a specific sector, expecting to find more similarities between companies in terms of market and technological...

It is often argued that Anglo-Saxon corporate governance systems place more emphasis on short-term results than do corporate governance systems in continental European countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands. Empirical evidence on this is scarce and often contradictory. This paper...