Due to the rising relevance of the economy and economic questions in the 20th century, Business Administration has become an important subject in higher education. Its fast growing student numbers during the last decades show its weight within the higher education institutions, even though it is...

The higher education sector has to face competition much in the same way as other economic entities do. Much has been done to introduce reforms making use of economic terms and concepts. This paper will highlight the manner in which different models for financing higher education can contribute...

L’enseignement supérieur, tout comme l’économie, doit faire face à la concurrence. Il y a beaucoup à faire pour ouvrir la voie des réformes en utilisant les termes et les concepts de l’économie. Dans cet article, nous chercherons à voir dans quelle mesure les modèles de financement...

This paper analyses whether freedom of decision as a crucial precondition of normative deci-sion theory is questioned by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of decision as the necessary basis for handling ethical...

This paper analyzes the impact of heterogeneous (social) preferences on the weighting and combination of performance measures as well as on a firm’s profitability. We consider rivalry, egoism and altruism as extreme forms within the continuum of possible preferences and show that the principal...

Die Bestimmung planmäßiger Abschreibungen gewinnt gegenwärtig auf regulierten Märkten eine besondere Bedeutung, weil sich die Genehmigung von Preisen auch an den Kosten orientiert. Im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung stehen daher Gesichtspunkte für die ökonomische Fundierung von...

In the aftermath of 1968, there was an intensive process to change German universities towards more democracy. In the 90ies, a new process of reforms started, but in quite another direction. International competition forces German universities to reform their structures again. In contrast to...