Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization

Corporate Wasteland, written by Steven High with photographsby David Lewis, argues that deindustrialization is a culturalas well as an economic process, and that popular memory shapedthe political response to plant shutdowns and job loss in theGreat Lakes region. The authors use oral history, photography,and archival research to explore the role of landscape in formingthat popular memory. The creation of the "Rust Belt" crossednational borders, and High and     

Andrew Wender Cohen. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-521-83466-X, $60.00 (cloth).

The Racketeer’s Progress is an important contributionto the growing literature on the role of law in the relationshipbetween labor and capital. It focuses not on legislation orgovernment officials but on local and state courts, where, authorAndrew Wender Cohen argues, a legal revolution was underwayin the early decades of the twentieth century. Legal actionshifted from the defense of property through the convictionof union leaders for conspiracy to the prosecution of corruptunion leaders     

Controlling-Schwerpunkte prozessorientierter Unternehmen

Zur Beurteilung von Prozessen werden von Unternehmen unterschiedliche Kriterien herangezogen. Die beschriebene Untersuchung zeigt u.a., dass die Kundenzufriedenheit am h?ufigsten als Beurteilungskriterium verwendet wird. Oft gebraucht werden auch Prozesskosten und die Prozesszeit.     

Financing Decisions along a Firm’s Life‐cycle: Debt as a Commitment Device

We analyse the life‐cycle patterns of a firm’s financing decisions and their interaction with future growth and development decisions. We derive different financing sequences which we link to existing empirical research as well as derive new testable hypotheses regarding differences in firms’ financing decisions to project, firm, market and country characteristics. We provide a rationale for the importance of (external) start‐up debt financing as observed in recent empirical studies. Furthermore, we argue that equity financing at both development stages is more likely for closely‐held firms and in countries in which entrepreneurs face high stigmatisation costs.     

The Puzzling Pattern of Multiple Job Holding across U.S. Labor Markets

Multiple job holding (MJH) rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely overlooked, despite being relatively fixed over (at least) the past 20 years. This article explores explanations for these persistent differences. We account for roughly two‐thirds of the mean absolute deviation in MJH across local labor markets (MSAs). The results suggest that variation in MJH across labor markets is driven by labor market differences in job opportunities and worker preferences. Most important in explaining variation in MJH are MSA industry and occupation structure, ancestry shares, commute times, and, to a lesser extent, labor market churn.     

Gestaltung von Monatsberichten in deutschen Großunternehmen

Ohne Zusammenfassung Dr. Anne Paefgen war Doktorandin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Controlling und Telekommunikation von Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. Dr. Sven Schaier ist Mitarbeiter im Department of Professional Practice Audit & Accounting, der fachlichen Grundsatzabteilung der KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft.