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R&D Cooperation in Emerging Markets - A Perspective of Strategic Decision-Making
This paper seeks to make contributions to the management of R&D cooperation, particularly in decision making in emerging markets such as the Chinese automotive industry. During the last two decades China has become the world's largest emerging economy and the most important market in the world. Thus it is also...
Tags: Business Operations, Decision-making, Emerging Market, Management, R&D, Research & Development, Strategy, University Of St. Gallen
White papers 2003-08-16
Public Policy, Start-Up Entrepreneurship, and the Market for Venture Capital
In recent years, venture capital has become an important source for financing young entrepreneurial firms. Given the apparently more innovative nature and extra value added of venture capital backed firms compared to other firms, policy makers have taken an increasing interest in an active venture capital industry. This paper explores...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, University Of St. Gallen, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2004-09-01
Screening and Advising by a Venture Capitalist With a Time Constraint
This paper proposes an intertemporal model of venture capital investment with screening and advising where the venture capitalist's time endowment is the scarce input factor. Screening improves the selection of firms receiving finance, advising allows firms to develop a marketable product, both have a variable intensity. In this setup, optimal...
Tags: Intensity, University Of St. Gallen, Screening, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2003-11-24
Dividend and Capital Gains Taxation in a Cross-Section of Firms
This paper analyses the general equilibrium effects of the new view on dividend taxation. It embeds the nucleus theory of firm development into a framework of monopolistic competition with new firm creation. Dividend and capital gains taxes affect the outcome in two dimensions: First, a differential treatment of dividends and...
Tags: Dividend, University Of St. Gallen, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2005-06-15
Sustainable Corporate Venture Capital: A Cross-Case Study Analysis in the European Electricity Industry
The topic of this paper is sustainable Corporate Venturing in companies of the energy sector. Although it happens in very small steps the energy sector is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The unsustainable usage of fossil energy sources is increasingly subject to regulations and falls from grace with environmentally aware customers....
Tags: Analysis, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment, University Of St. Gallen, Venture Capital
White papers 2004-09-01
Knowledge Management in Challenging Settings - A Case of Military Aircraft
Besides typical challenges related to Knowledge Management KM, EADS Military Aircraft is facing some specific challenges resulting from the company's history as well as from its position in the military environment. The case study presented in this paper reports on the specific challenges and state-of-the-art of KM within a military...
Tags: Knowledge, Challenge, Aircraft, University Of St. Gallen, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
White papers 2005-06-29
Business Strategy Modelling in the Information Age
The sophistication of technical and organizational networking enables not only a broader range of business architectures and business models, but also allows for their faster adaptation to innovations. By increasing the degree of formalization of strategy modelling, model consistency can be enhanced and specifications can be reused in subsequent business...
Tags: Technique, Specification, Business Model, Business Strategy, University Of St. Gallen, Productivity, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-23
Using Reference Models For Data Warehouse Metadata Management
Based on experience from applying the Common Warehouse Metamodel to metadata management at a large Swiss bank, the applicability of metadata reference models in complex application domains is analyzed. In order to explain the context of the case, the state-of-the-art of the Common Warehouse Metamodel and its application for data...
Tags: Data Warehouse, University Of St. Gallen, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
White papers 2005-08-11
Towards Guidelines For Design Of Mobile Services
The paper aims to provide a contribution to the development of generic guidelines for the design of mobile data services. Using the exploratory research tool focus groups amongst other methods it examines the mobile alert service "MediAlert" and takes into account both user as well as business requirements. It's presenting...
Tags: Data Service, Focus Group, Mobile, University Of St. Gallen, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-04-27
Disaggregation Of The Value Chain: Emergence Of New Business Models In Strategy Consulting
The paper explores the predominant driving-forces shaping the strategy consulting industry. Clients have become more demanding and their skill gaps in relation to strategy consultants are narrowing. The instant availability of global information has precipitated an erosion of the competitive advantage of integrated players running internal research and knowledge building...
Tags: Value Chain, University Of St. Gallen, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management
White papers 2004-04-29
Exports, Foreign Direct Investment And The Costs Of Corporate Taxation
Depending on the definition of the tax base, the statutory corporate tax rate implies rather different measures of effective average and marginal tax rates. This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average...
Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, University Of St. Gallen, Taxes, Free Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Financial Planning, Finance, Investment
White papers 2006-07-01
A Product-Based Information Management Approach
The paper presents a product-based information management approach that promises a more efficient and effective delivery of IT Information Technology services. Within a product-based information management, service providers and customers cooperate on the basis of a set of defined IT products. Instead of managing joint IT projects, customers purchase IT...
Tags: Information Management, Information Technology, Product, University Of St. Gallen, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-06-11
Classification Of Outsourcing Phenomena In Financial Services
Financial service companies have developed a wide variety of outsourcing phenomena over the course of last few years. The goal of this paper is to conceptualize these phenomena to the extent that they can be specified in descriptive dimensions, thus making it possible to differentiate between different outsourcing scenarios. This...
Tags: Financial Service, University Of St. Gallen, Outsourcing, Financial Planning, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance
White papers 2005-04-27
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure The Value Of Enterprise Architecture
The value returned by Enterprise Architecture EA is increasingly under consideration by researchers and practitioners. They struggle to justify the EA investments made. Quantifying the Enterprise Architecture benefits has always been a challenge because measurements and real value delivered can not often be expressed in simple technical oriented metrics only....
Tags: Enterprise Architecture, University Of St. Gallen, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
White papers 2007-06-06
International Cooperation And The Reform Of Public Procurement Policies
The decision not to launch negotiations in the WTO on three of the Singapore Issues in the so-called July 2004 package provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base upon which proposals for further international collective action may be drawn. This paper examines the available evidence on public procurement practices...
Tags: Developing Country, Procurement, University Of St. Gallen, Purchasing & Procurement, Free Trade, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2005-08-01
Self-Selection and Advice in Venture Capital Finance
In financing start-up firms, venture capitalists carefully select among alternative projects, design incentive compatible financial contracts and support portfolio companies with value enhancing managerial advice. This paper considers how venture capitalists can induce self-selection among entrepreneurial firms with different qualities and growth potential by designing appropriate contracts and offering managerial...
Tags: University Of St. Gallen, Venture Capital, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Financing Startups, Management
White papers 2006-03-01
Approach to Overcome Existing Limitations for CRM-Implementation
This paper presents the results of studies on CRM solutions and proposes a new approach to overcome identified limitations of CRM implementations. This paper is based on work that has been carried out in a EU founded project on innovative solutions to improve the management of customer relationship and complements...
Tags: CRM, University Of St. Gallen, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
White papers 2002-06-06
Performance Measurement of CRM in Financial Services
Customer Relationship Management CRM, a management philosophy that focuses on the nurturing of customer relationships, emerged as a response to decreasing customer loyalty and increasing competition. Implementing CRM is expensive, as it demands high investment in organizational change activities and information technology IT and companies thus expect visible, measurable results....
Tags: Performance, Financial Service, CRM, University Of St. Gallen, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software
White papers 2004-07-14
Tactical Asset Allocation: An Alternative Definition
The intention of this note is to emphasize the difficulties when an investor applies a myopic optimization framework in a stochastic and dynamic market environment. Moreover, to define tactical asset allocation, it does not simplify the strategic optimization problem along the time dimension. Instead, to contrast strategic asset allocation with...
Tags: Asset, Asset Allocation, University Of St. Gallen, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2004-03-16
Offshore Banking: Uses and Abuses
This white paper reveals that the process of the growing international mobility of capital has been the growth of offshore finance. During the last three decades offshore finance centers have become a major part of the emerging global finance system. Offshore banking is a very controversial topic. Despite the marked...
Tags: Offshore, University Of St. Gallen, Offshore Banking, Financial Accounting, Banking, Finance, Financial Services
White papers 2000-01-01
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