Creative capitalism’, ‘inclusive business’, ‘doing well by doing good’, ‘harnessing core competencies’, ‘social enterprise’, ‘ethical trade’, delivering ‘shared value’ to stakeholders and shareholders. All of these terms and ideas have one fundamental idea in common....

Die vorliegende Arbeit diskutiert die Frage des möglichen Einflusses lokal gebundener Akteure auf Unternehmensentscheidungen bzw. in Auseinandersetzungen im Unternehmen.

This discussion paper provides an overview of conceptual arguments and empirical findings with respect to services within multinational corporations. The focus of the analysis is on the organization and managment of efficient internal services, particularly in global firms. Unfortunately, these...

Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

Im Zuge einer Konzentration auf das Kerngeschäft hat die Auslagerung von betrieblich genutzten Immobilien, das Property Outsourcing, stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Sicherstellung der sich aus dem kerngeschäft ergebnden Flexibilitätsanforderungen stellt generell eine Herausforderung dar und...

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

This chapter focuses on the role of corporate financial strategies to improve firms' market valuations, and thus lower their cost of capital. The identification of successful strategies is accomplished within an overall strategic framework and related to how the firm perceives the degree of...

This paper stresses the special role of multinational headquarters in corporate profit shifting strategies. Using a large panel of European firms, we show that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are reluctant to shift profits away from their headquarters even if these are located in high-tax...

In vielen Großunternehmen stellt sich mit der Internationalisierung zunehmend das Problem festzulegen, in welchen Sprachen die unterschiedlichen Unternehmensbereiche miteinander kommunizieren sollen. Sollen mehrere Sprachen nebeneinander existieren - mit allen Nachteilen zeitraubender und...

We examine the determinants of firm's current environmental expenditure and firm's capital investment in equipment for pollution control using a Heckman selection model. As regards current environmental expenditure, we find that larger, exporting firms and firms subject to the Integrated...