Die Automobilindustrie steht vor großen Umbrüchen. Die Kosten steigen stetig, und die großen deutschen Autokonzerne kündigen längerfristige, massive Sparprogramme an. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, CAR-Center Automotive Research an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, geht davon aus, dass die...

Die Automobilindustrie steht vor großen Umbrüchen. Die Kosten steigen stetig, und die großen deutschen Autokonzerne kündigen längerfristige, massive Sparprogramme an. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, CAR-Center Automotive Research an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, geht davon aus, dass die...

Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. The growth in trade in...

Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. The growth in trade in...

Achieving sustainability is a great challenge for most of the Indonesian manufacturing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Remanufacturing has been considered to be a key strategy to attain sustainable manufacturing by maximising the use of old components and minimising landfill size and...

Sustainability is an international issue with increasing concern and becomes a crucial driver for the industry in international competition. Sustainability encompasses the three dimensions: environment, society and economy. This paper presents the results from a sustainability assessment of a...

In order to make quantitative evaluations on the nature of capital adjustment costs, in the face of technological changes, we estimate capital adjustment cost functions, either convex, non-convex, or irreversible (Cooper and Haltiwanger, 2006). A simulated method of moments is applied to the...

Bilanzpolitik ist die zielgerichtete Gestaltung des Jahresabschlusses. Damit versucht die Geschäftsleitung das Bild der wirtschaftlichen Lage in ihrem Sinne einzufärben. Der Bilanzanalyst versucht nun seinerseits, genutzte Gestaltungsspielräume aufzudecken. Sein Ziel ist es, ein "ehrlicheres"...