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      <title>Hidden champions: A review of the literature &amp; future research avenues</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222408</link>
      <description>Title: Hidden champions: A review of the literature &amp; future research avenues
Authors: Schenkenhofer, Julian
Abstract: Substantial efforts have contributed to overcome the scarcity of hidden champions research. Nevertheless, literature has missed to compile a comprehensive review. Drawing on the insights of 94 publications, four strands of literature could be distinguished to unravel the essence of hidden champions. Research on hidden champions studies their 1) internationalization strategies, 2) R&amp;D and innovation strategies, the 3) worldwide and regional geographic distribution of hidden champions and finally 4) other research that could not be assigned to one of the first three strands. A hand-collected sample of 1372 German hidden champions exemplifies the key insights from the reviewed research articles. Discussing the findings of the different literature strands aims at drawing a conclusion on their main results and analytical pitfalls to eventually unfold and motivate future research avenues.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The landscape of corporate venturing in Germany: Insights on corporate venture capitals and corporate accelerators</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191442</link>
      <description>Title: The landscape of corporate venturing in Germany: Insights on corporate venture capitals and corporate accelerators
Authors: Haslanger, Patrick
Abstract: This paper adds to the literature of external corporate venturing, especially corporate venture capitals (CVCs) and corporate accelerators (CAs) by providing an overview of the German corporate venturing market and by offering first intriguing findings based on a novel and unique hand-collected dataset. It presents insights regarding the set-up, organization and staffing of corporate venturing units, as well as characteristics of start-ups under management. This study distinguishes between the corporate venturing unit's mission, organization, governance and network as well as vehicle leads. Moreover, differences in the characteristics of start-ups supported by corporate venturing units are detected. This work offers unique insights on the German corporate venturing landscape and thereby serves as starting point for future and more elaborate research.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Corporate governance</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185056</link>
      <description>Title: Corporate governance
Authors: Lehmann, Erik
Abstract: Corporate governance is a recent concept that encompasses the costs caused by managerial misbehavior. Corporate governance is concerned with how organizations in general, and corporations in particular, produce value and how that value is distributed among the members of the corporation, its stakeholders. The interrelation of value production and value distribution links the ubiquitous technological aspect (the production of value) with the moral and ethical dimension (the distribution of value). Corporate governance is concerned with this link in general, but more specifically with the moral and ethical dimensions of distributing the generated value among the stakeholders. Value in firms is created by firm-specific investments, and the motivation and coordination of value enhancing activities and investment is protected by the power concentrated at the pyramidal top of the organization. In modern companies, it is the CEO and the top management deciding how to create value and how to distribute it among the relevant stakeholders. Due to asymmetric information and the imperfect nature of markets and contracts, adverse selection and moral hazard problems occur, where delegated (selected) managers could act in their own interest at the costs of other relevant stakeholders. Corporate governance is a two-tailed concept. The first aspect is about identifying the (most) relevant stakeholder(s), separating theory and practice into two different and conflicting streams: the stakeholder value approach and the shareholder value approach. The second aspect of the concept is about providing and analyzing different mechanisms, reducing the costs induced by moral hazard and adverse selection effects, and to balance out the motivation and coordination problems of the relevant stakeholders. Corporate governance is an interdisciplinary concept encompassing academic fields like finance, economics, accounting, law, taxation and psychology, among others. Like countries differ according to their institutions (i.e. legal and political systems, norms, and rules), firms differ according to their size, age, dominant shareholders or industries. Thus concepts in corporate governance differ along these dimensions as well. And while the underlying characteristics vary in time, continuously or as an exogenous shock, concepts in corporate governance are dynamic and static, offering a challenging field of interest for academics, policy makers and firm managers.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Approaching effects of the economic crisis on university efficiency: A comparative study of Germany and Italy</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/168372</link>
      <description>Title: Approaching effects of the economic crisis on university efficiency: A comparative study of Germany and Italy
Authors: Lehmann, Erik E.; Meoli, Michele; Paleari, Stefano; Stockinger, Sarah A. E.
Abstract: In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German universities in the process of transforming public funding into the multiple outputs of a university, i.e. graduating students, publishing research, and patenting activity. We do this with a particular focus on the policies implemented following the financial crisis in 2008. Using a sample of 133 public universities, of which 73 public universities in Germany and 60 public universities in Italy observed over the period 2006-2011 we find that Italian universities perform significantly better in terms of output maximization than German universities. The crisis does not show a general impact, while the treatment effect indicates that Italian universities coped better during the crisis than their German counterparts at a highly significant level.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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