Bjorn Eckhard analysiert ein branchenubergreifendes Untersuchungsmodell von Hersteller-Zulieferer-Beziehungen der Automobilindustrie. Die Befunde liefern wertvolle unternehmenspraktische Hinweise zum Einsatz von Wissensmanagement fur die Vertragsgestaltung als auch wichtige Beitrage fur die Forschung auf dem Gebiet des Kooperationsmanagement.

Foreword In her dissertation Anna Krzeminska deals with the determinants and the management of make-and-buy decisions. Make-and-buy describes the simultaneous use of in-house prod- tion and external procurement of a good or service. Today make-and-buy can be found in many industries and corporate sectors; the simultaneous use of in-house production and external procurement can, for example, be found in the automotive, telecommunications, and IT industry, as well as in pharmaceutical research-and-development projects, the assignment of sales representatives, and in franchising businesses....

In the last ten years, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has become an important theoretical approach in strategic management. Concurrently, or at least since the contribution of Priem/Butler, there has been an increase in criticism of the theoretical and empirical power of the RBV. In this context Katja Nothnagel identifies three main deficiencies in the present discussion on the RBV: 1. An inadequate understanding of the central constructs and the empirically revisable hypotheses of the RBV. 2. An insufficient comprehension regarding the state of the art of the empirical research on the RBV and...