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Framing Effects In Political Decision Making: Evidence From A Natural Voting Experiment
This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of emphasis framing effects is tested...
Tags: Experiment, Decision-making, University Of St. Gallen, Government, Tools & Techniques, Vertical Industries, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-02-01
Benchmarking Project Internationalising the Value Chain Successfully
Studies from Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Consulting Company Droege & Comp. revealed that nearly every second industrial company in Germany will relocate partial or total production abroad during the next three years. 70% of all manufacturing companies enquired have already moved parts of their organisation during the last...
Tags: Benchmarking, Value Chain, University Of St. Gallen, Engineering, Manufacturing, Channel Management, Marketing
White papers 2004-08-10
Entrepreneurial Strategy Formation As Innovation And Routinization Under Uncertainty And Ambiguity
A proactive strategizing practice in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity deduced as the appropriate rationale under these conditions, as well as its foundation in an emerging organizational knowledge base, allows new ventures to learn from early positive and negative experiences, leading to a coherent strategizing practice over time, as...
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Ambiguity, University Of St. Gallen, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Management
White papers 2001-06-15
Towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard
The last decade the Balanced Scorecard has emerged as a magic tool that is supposed to solve all existing management problems so far. This paper analyses how the Balanced Scorecard BSC can be improved towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard SBSC and used to translate corporate sustainability strategies into action, and...
Tags: Sustainability, University Of St. Gallen, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2001-08-17
Rapid Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
Enterprise resource planning systems are the integrated software systems for administration of all aspects of business. A major hindrance to firms that wish to convert from existing legacy systems to the ERP systems is that the process can take 12 to 18 months. This article basically explores the experience of...
Tags: SAP AG, ERP, University Of St. Gallen, Enterprise Resource Planning System, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2004-06-08
Sustainability management With the Balanced Scorecard
This paper presents the methodology of the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard SBSC. The SBSC-concept is based on the "traditional" Balanced Scorecard BSC, a management tool and methodology developed by Kaplan and Norton in 1997. The idea to use the tool also for the purpose of environmental management is not completely new...
Tags: Sustainability, Norton Co., University Of St. Gallen, SBSC-concept, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2003-08-12
Towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard Linking Environmental and Social Sustainability to Business Strategy
This paper analyses how Kaplan and Norton's (1997) concept of the Balanced Scorecard BSC can be extended towards a Sustainability Balanced Scorecard SBSC. It discusses how a SBSC can help translate corporate sustainability strategies into action, and to integrate corporate sustainability better into the core management systems. The paper starts...
Tags: Sustainability, Business Strategy, University Of St. Gallen, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2001-09-14
The Challenge of Environmental Responsibility and Sustainable Development: Implications for SME and Entrepreneurship Academics
The move towards a "greener" or more environmentally-responsible framework of business operations has begun to be mirrored in the research and teaching work of many academics. However, it is suggested that the fields of entrepreneurship and SME studies have lagged somewhat behind other disciplines when it comes to including sustainable...
Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Sustainable Development, University Of St. Gallen, Smb/Sme, Entrepreneurship, Management
White papers 2002-09-16
Public Policy For Start-up Entrepreneurship With Venture Capital and Bank Finance
This paper proposes and analyses a model of start-up investment. Innovative entrepreneurs are commercially inexperienced and can benefit from venture capital support. Only part of them succeeds in matching with a venture capitalist while the rest must resort to standard bank finance. This paper further considers a number of policies...
Tags: Bank, University Of St. Gallen, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Management
White papers 2002-12-01
Taxation and Venture Capital Backed Entrepreneurship
In recent years, venture capital has increasingly become a factor in the financing of new firms. This paper examines how the value of mature firms determines the incentives of entrepreneurs to start up new firms and of venture capitalists to finance and advise them. It examines how capital gains taxes...
Tags: University Of St. Gallen, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Management
White papers 2003-09-01
Online-Gaming as Marketing and Sales Catalyst
The paper reveals that online games could become a key marketing and sales channel of the future. Like other media, however, gaming communities have their own rules and marketers must learn to obey them. Only by knowing these rules, and combining them with innovative marketing know-how, can marketers communicate and...
Tags: Online Game, University Of St. Gallen, Games, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sales
White papers 2002-12-06
The Evaluation of Hedge Funds
The very nature of hedge funds, with their unregulated structures and the extensive use of derivative instruments, turns them into a risky business. But if investors are careful and disciplined enough and follow certain rules, those risks can be limited, thus ensuring superior returns hedge funds are known for. Investigating...
Tags: Hedge Fund, University Of St. Gallen, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2001-01-08
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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