Nonlinear Relationships and Their Effect on the Bankruptcy PredictionSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 18 - Trang 261-287 - 2017
Christian Lohmann, Thorsten Ohliger
This study uses a generalized additive model to analyze nonlinear relationships and their effect on the bankruptcy prediction in terms of a company’s probability of default. Specifically, this study examines which of the performance indicators that are contained in a company’s annual financial statements affect nonlinearly that company’s probability of bankruptcy. Furthermore, this study examines ...... hiện toàn bộ
Intertemporal Income Shifting Around a Large Tax Cut: the Case of DepreciationsSchmalenbach Business Review - - 2018
Laura Dobbins, Sebastian Eichfelder, Frank Hechtner, Jochen Hundsdoerfer
A corporate tax rate cut provides an incentive for corporations to shift taxable income from years before the tax rate cut to post-reform years. Our study analyzes whether depreciations and write-offs are used to achieve intertemporal income shifting. Using a panel of German manufacturing firms, we test in a difference-in-differences setting whether firms reacted to the announced 2008 corporate ta...... hiện toàn bộ
Management Quality, Firm Size, and Managerial Compensation: A Comparison between Germany and the UKSchmalenbach Business Review - - 2017
Steffen Brenner, Joachim Schwalbach
This paper considers the relation between management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation. Exploring a German (SOEP) and a British (BHPS) data set we show that the impact of firm size on pay, which is consistently found in the management literature, vanishes (to a large extent) if it is controlled for manager quality. For the UK, we even find negative firm size elasticities. Different c...... hiện toàn bộ
Credit and Information in Universal BankingSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 52 - Trang 282-309 - 2017
Hans-Peter Burghof
The internal aspects of bank lending, information production, and interaction between debtor and bank lending officers are still a black box to banking theory. To achieve some empirical insight into these aspects of financial intermediation, I analyze the credit files of six lending relationships between a German universal bank and medium sized firms. If no crisis occurs in these lending relations...... hiện toàn bộ
Ever-Changing Routines? Toward a Revised Understanding of Organizational Routines Between Rule-Following and Rule-BreakingSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 66 - Trang 170-190 - 2017
Daniel Geiger, Anja Schröder
This paper advances research on the conceptual nature of organizational routines. We examine whether and how routines contribute to organizational stability, renewal, or change. We review the “routine as change” perspective and find several important shortcomings. To mitigate some of the conceptual problems of this perspective, we develop a rule-based understanding of routines that focuses on rule...... hiện toàn bộ
An Empirical Study of Reward and Incentive Systems in German Entrepreneurial firmsSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 59 - Trang 160-175 - 2017
Frank Bau, Michael Dowling
In this paper we present the results of a study analyzing the impact of an entrepreneurial company’s initial organization on the structure of its reward and incentive systems, using data from entrepreneurial firms in Germany. the results suggest that the educational level of employees has the strongest impact on the application of different financial and nonfinancial rewards. Our findings also sug...... hiện toàn bộ
Estimating the Global Minimum Variance PortfolioSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 58 - Trang 332-348 - 2017
Alexander Kempf, Christoph Memmel
According to standard portfolio theory, the tangency portfolio is the only efficient stock portfolio. However, empirical studies show that an investment in the global minimum variance portfolio often yields better out-of-sample results than does an investment in the tangency portfolio and suggest investing in the global minimum variance portfolio. But little is known about the distributions of the...... hiện toàn bộ
We Don’t Need Another Hero — Implications from Network Structure and Resource Commitment for Movie PerformanceSchmalenbach Business Review - Tập 60 - Trang 74-98 - 2017
Brinja Meiseberg, Thomas Ehrmann, Julian Dormann
This study offers a new framework for organizing a motion picture in such a way that enhances its chances for box-office success. We combine and expand two strands of research for the moviemaking industry: the economic approach and the social network perspective. Specifically, we integrate the product-inherent categories of the creative sphere and financial resources and the product-induced catego...... hiện toàn bộ