Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage.Therefore they are fundamental to each firm’s competitive strategy. Usually, both instrumentshave been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as bothprocesses - the process of innovation...

Discrete choice experiments (DCE) have been in-creasingly applied to assess farmers' preferences for alternative designs of hypothetical agri-environmental schemes. We extend the DCE approach by asking farmers not only to choose among alternative conservation contracts but also to choose the...

This paper uses data from a discrete choice experiment to investigate the factors affecting participation in agri-environmental schemes in Eiderstedt and Südtondern, two grassland regions in Schleswig-Holstein. As expected, higher payment rates increase farmers' willingness to sign a...