In any organization, risk plays a huge role in the success or failure of any business endeavour. Measuring and managing risk is a difficult and often complicated task and the global financial crisis of the late noughties can be traced to a worldwide deficiency in risk management regimes. One of...

Corporate governance has become a global phenomenon. This book highlights, through various case studies, how corporate governance has evolved in a number of countries around the world. -- The international cast of contributors, from varying professional backgrounds including academics, lawyers...

In recent years, applied studies have shown widespread, profound and increasing heterogeneity across firms in terms of their strategy, organization arrangement and performance. This book investigates the diversity of business firms, offering a picture of the different organizational settings...

Nachdem in den vergangenen Jahren vor allem das anorganische Wachstum durch Mergers & Acquisitions im Mittelpunkt des Interesses von Wissenschaft und Praxis stand, trägt das vorliegende Werk dazu bei, das Erkenntnisdefizit zu organischem Wachstum internationaler Unternehmen zu reduzieren. Es...

Anhand unternehmensbezogener Fallstudien behandeln die Autoren des Bands die Auflösung zentraler Wesensmerkmale der deutschen Spielart des organisierten Kapitalismus. Ausgangspunkt der Beiträge ist das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen einzelwirtschaftlich-betriebswirtschaftlichen und...