Value-Based Management in Mittelstand

Value-Based Management in Mittelstand
Author: Carola Normann-Tschampel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658292288

In this book Carola Normann-Tschampel develops an enhanced understanding of the relevance of Value-Based Management (VBM) to management practice in Mittelstand. A theory-practice gap is identified based on a unique overview of the field of research. The empirical investigation focuses on three specifically identified areas of management (strategic decision-making, objectives, attitudes) and uses a specific research approach. The insights gained from taking an interpretive stance towards owner-managers’ practical experience provide a valuable basis to further address the overall research gap.

Incentives and Performance

Incentives and Performance
Author: Isabell M. Welpe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319097857

​This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-financial incentives for researchers. The expert contributions in the book deal with implementation of incentive systems at higher education institutions in order to foster innovation. On the other hand, the book also discusses the extent to which governance structures from economy can be transferred to universities and how scientific performance can be measured and evaluated. This book is essential for decision-makers in knowledge-intensive organizations and higher-educational institutions dealing with the topic of performance management.

Innovative Business Practices

Innovative Business Practices
Author: Alkis Thrassou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1443849936

This second decade of the millennium finds the world changing at a once unimaginable pace. Businesses, tangled in the interwoven threads of galloping globalization, technological advances, cultural diversity, economic recession and deep-rooted human social evolution, struggle to keep up with incessant changes; consequently and inexorably experiencing severe difficulties and disorientation. Executives, much bewildered, habitually turn to conventional, time-honoured strategies and practices, which increasingly fail to offer the much-sought answers and means to survival, competitiveness and growth. We are currently experiencing a business era of turbulence and dynamic change – an era that inherently rejects conventionality and orthodox business theory to reward businesses embracing agility, reflex-style adaptability, innovation and creativity. This turbulence is, however, not a parenthesis or even a pattern, but the new reality in which each business must reinvent and redefine itself. This is a new reality of stakeholders that shift focus from the external to the internal, from the tangible to the intangible, and from fact to perception. This book presents research and paradigms that transcend classical theory in order to examine how business practice is positively affected by these conditions. Across a multitude of sectors and organisational types, scholars of different business specialisations set the theoretical foundations of contemporary thinking and present their practical implementations.

Value Based Performance Measures

Value Based Performance Measures
Author: Nils Eikelmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 365831429X

Nils Eikelmann describes the framework conditions for the application of value-based performance measures and critically analyses selected ones. The disclosure of value-based performance indicators is important in order to demonstrate the successful management of a company and to satisfy the increasing information needs of investors. However, companies adapt the developed theoretical concepts of value-based performance measures to their practical needs and thus investors are no longer able to compare the performance of companies. In addition, there is a variety of different metrics from which companies can choose. The empirical study aims to reduce existing research gaps and is divided into three parts: the analysis of annual reports of selected European companies, the calculation of a standardised value-based performance measure and a value relevance study in the form of an association study.

Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges

Innovative Management Perspectives on Confronting Contemporary Challenges
Author: Evangelos Tsoukatos
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1443884340

In view of the prolonged financial meltdown and the resulting clash of socio-economic interests, both between nations and within societies, unforeseen challenges have to be met by contemporary managers. The current organizational, financial, political and social situation calls for innovative, out-of-the-box solutions, while also presenting a unique "opportunity" for management scholars, practitioners and policy makers to work out and bring forward creative and imaginative, as well as realistic, responses to problems. Appealing to scholars, students, researchers and practitioners, and covering a wide spectrum of organizational types and institutions, this book provides scientific evidence, direction and insight on issues associated with confronting challenges related to the contemporary socio-economic scenario. In this respect, the presents conceptual and empirical research, putting forward a wide range of paradigms and ideas transcending conventional theory, on finding innovative solutions to contemporary business and managerial challenges. It brings forward contemporary theoretical underpinning across an array of sectors and organizational structures, while also presenting their practical implementations -- Book jacket.

ACRN Proceedings in Finance and Risk Series ‘13

ACRN Proceedings in Finance and Risk Series ‘13
Author: Dr. Othmar M. Lehner
Publisher: ACRN Publishing House
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3950351817

Proceedings of the 14th FRAP Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives conference taking place in Cambridge UK.

Leading with Purpose

Leading with Purpose
Author: Richard R. Ellsworth
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804743851

An exploration of corporate purpose - a company's expressed overriding reason for existing - and its effect upon strategy, executive leadership, employees, and ultimately, on competitive performance. It argues that the path to financial success lies in a customer-focused corporate purpose.

Strategic Retail Management

Strategic Retail Management
Author: Joachim Zentes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834967408

This is not a traditional textbook or collection of case studies, but is intended to demonstrate the complex and manifold questions of retail management in the form of 18 lessons that provide a thematic overview of key issues and illustrate them with the help of comprehensive case studies. In the second edition, all chapters were revised and updated. Three new chapters were added to treat topics like online-retailing and multi-channel-strategies as well as the so called verticals in specific chapters. All case studies were replaced by new ones to reflect the most recent developments. Eighteen well-known retail companies from different countries, like Best Buy, IKEA,TK Maxx, Tesco and Decathlon, are now used to illustrate particular aspects of retail management.