How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firms' price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the...

Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a fundamental driver of the business model of the bank...

Using a sample of 95 German firms, the study finds general support for the traditional fits of international strategy-structure theory. Employing an information-processing perspective, the study conceptually and empirically extends existing theory (1) to address strategy-structure fit for...

11 hypotheses from agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and Ouchi's theoretical approach on the impact of environmental, Company and salespeople characteristics on the design of salesforce control systems (outcome- vs. behavior-based) are summarized and tested on a data set of 270 German...

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Modell entwickelt, das die Wirkungen von Preis- und Nicht-Preis-Promotions auf die Markenloyalität von Konsumenten abbildet. Die Markenloyalitäts-Varia-ble von Guadagni/Little (1983) wird dabei dahingehend erweitert, daß die Änderung der Markenloyalität nach einem...

In der jüngsten Vergangenheit wird der Effizienz und Effektivität von Funktionen, die von Unternehmen selbst wahrgenommen werden, erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Während diese Diskussion bisher auf den Bereich der Beschaffung und Produktion beschränkt war, wird neuerdings im Rahmen von...

The success of health economics and its guidance for health policy heavily rests on the availability of reliable empirical evidence on the demographic, economic, and epidemiological environment, on behavioral relationships, and on the impact of policy interventions. For Sub-Saharan Africa,...