Strategic Management is a concept that concerns with making decisions and taking corrective actions to achieve long term targets and goals of an organization. The importance of strategic management in a firm can be answered by analyzing relationship between strategic management and...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...

The financial crisis drew attention to the way in which workers in certain countries had been able to sustain consumption through housing and consumer credit despite insecure labour-market positions. This indicates a need to expand the analysis of the relationship between flexibility and...

Im ifo Schnelldienst Nr. 19 vom Oktober 2004 wurde detailliert über den Messansatz der EU-Studie B2B Metrics berichtet. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Teil der Ergebnisse der Studie vorgestellt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Befunden zur Nutzung von B2B-Anwendungen in der Automobilwirtschaft und...

Die immer komplexer werdenden Rüstungsprojekte und rechtlichen Regelwerke, die zunehmenden Vorbereitungen sowie Durchführungen nationaler und internationaler Rüstungs- bzw. Beschaffungskooperationen mit Staaten und Organisationen, erfordern die zwingende Notwendigkeit des effizienteren...

We investigate equilibrium bidding in first-price auctions with asymmetric reserve prices. For example, the auctioneer may set a low reserve price for one subset of bidders and a high reserve price for others. When used to pursue a distributional objective, lowering the reserve price for some...