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2. In-kind credit provision through contract farming and formal credit markets
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Ruml, Anette, Parlasca, Martin C., Ruml, Anette, and Parlasca, Martin C.
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Access to credit is a key prerequisite for the development of smallholder agriculture. However, rural credit markets are typically characterized by market failures and smallholder credit access is limited. Resource-providing contracts are an institutional tool to overcome credit market failures through the provision of production inputs in the form of in-kind credit. Previous research has shown that interlinkage of contract and credit helps farmers overcome financial constraints, foster production investments, and hence increase productivities and income. However, if and how such contract schemes affect farmers' overall demand for and access to formal credit from other sources is not yet well understood. In this article, we therefore investigate the associations of the provision of in-kind credit and farming households' formal credit demand and ability to receive formal credit. We use data of 463 oil palm producers in Ghana and show that participation in contract farming is associated with an increase in credit demand. Concerning credit approval, we find that the outstanding debt of the in-kind credit scheme is associated with a substantially lower likelihood of credit acceptance. However, the results also suggest that farmers can fully compensate this negative effect by informing the bank about the contract, and thus the source of the debt. This indicates that debt acquired from resource-providing contract schemes does not necessarily pose an additional credit constraint to farmers.
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- 2023
3. The Global Wealth Chains of Private-Equity-run Physician Practices
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Bůžek, Richard, Scheuplein, Christoph, Bůžek, Richard, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Currently, numerous physician practices in industrial and emerging countries are being taken over by private equity firms and integrated into novel physician corporations. This involves private equity firms producing a global wealth chain (GWC) between their investors and the target asset, using offshore financial centres to facilitate tax-avoiding reflux of capital. Moreover, they are opening up ambulatory health care as an asset for capital investment by overcoming previous market barriers to ambulatory health care via a legal construct. In this paper, we trace the spatial links of these finance-side and sector-specific corporate chains based on a capital flow analysis of private equity takeovers of Medical Care Centres (MCCs) in Bavaria, Germany. With our heuristics of a double-layered GWC, which enables the extraction of value from the German health system, we contribute to the emerging GWC debate that aims to conceptualise the complex and often opaque spatialisations of financialisation processes.
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- 2023
4. Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The 'forecasted losses' intervention
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Archel, Pablo, Carrasco, Francisco, García-Benau, María Antonia, Larrinaga, Carlos, Archel, Pablo, Carrasco, Francisco, García-Benau, María Antonia, and Larrinaga, Carlos
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This paper explores the social and political potential of accounting scholarship, presenting and discussing an intellectual intervention challenging a legislative reform that significantly affected Spanish industrial relations. In this reform, an accounting artifact (forecasted losses) played an unexpected role and was misrepresented, prompting a sizeable number of scholars to sign two manifestos in 2010 and 2012 against the use of forecasted losses made by the new legislation. As promoters of this manifesto, we perform in this paper a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on the context, events, reactions, and significance of this intervention for both the academic and the industrial relations fields. We mobilize Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on the public intellectual to think more generally about academic engagements in the interplay between accounting, policymaking, and social issues. This intervention illustrates the different manners in which administrative and economic powers interfered in the Spanish accounting academic field, limiting the disposition of Spanish scholars to engage in public debates. We also interpret our engagement as mobilizing intellectual capital to expose how the notion of forecasted losses was used to produce a form of symbolic violence and how this capital is more effective as it produces messages addressed to the producers, i.e., policymakers and the judicature in this specific case.
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- 2023
5. The Global Wealth Chains of Private‐Equity‐Run Physician Practices
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Richard Bůžek, Christoph Scheuplein, and Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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Economics and Econometrics ,private equity ,global wealth chains ,health care ,offshore financial centre ,Germany ,financialisation ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Wirtschaft ,Earth sciences ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,550 Earth sciences ,ddc:550 ,ddc:330 - Abstract
Currently, numerous physician practices in industrial and emerging countries are being taken over by private equity firms and integrated into novel physician corporations. This involves private equity firms producing a global wealth chain (GWC) between their investors and the target asset, using offshore financial centres to facilitate tax-avoiding reflux of capital. Moreover, they are opening up ambulatory health care as an asset for capital investment by overcoming previous market barriers to ambulatory health care via a legal construct. In this paper, we trace the spatial links of these finance-side and sector-specific corporate chains based on a capital flow analysis of private equity takeovers of Medical Care Centres (MCCs) in Bavaria, Germany. With our heuristics of a double-layered GWC, which enables the extraction of value from the German health system, we contribute to the emerging GWC debate that aims to conceptualise the complex and often opaque spatialisations of financialisation processes.
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- 2022
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6. Company Building als Ergänzung des deutschen Innovationssystems: Wie beschäftigungsstarke Gründungen in der Digitalisierung unterstützt werden können
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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Digitalisierung ,Economics ,Beschäftigungseffekt ,Geschäftsmodell ,business concept ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Unternehmensgründung ,Management Science ,Wirtschaft ,effect on employment ,Federal Republic of Germany ,digitalization ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Management ,Berlin ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,middle class ,Wagniskapital ,Innovationssystem ,Company Builder ,ddc:330 ,venture capital ,Innovation ,Risikokapital ,setting up a business ,Mittelstand - Abstract
Dem deutschen Innovationssystem werden viele Defizite vorgeworfen: zu wenig Engagement bei der Digitalisierung, zu wenig Wagniskapital und zu wenige Unternehmensgründungen. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass sich mit den sogenannten Company Buildern eine Form von Wagniskapital herausgebildet hat, die an den Institutionen des deutschen Innovationssystems anknüpft. Die Company Builder erleichtern den Gründer:innen den Einstieg am Markt und vielen traditionellen Mittelständlern den Kontakt mit der Startup-Welt. Dieser erfolgreiche und beschäftigungsorientierte Pfad sollte durch die Gründungs- und Wagniskapitalpolitik unterstützt werden.
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- 2023
7. In‐kind credit provision through contract farming and formal credit markets
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Martin C. Parlasca and Anette Ruml
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Economics ,credit market ,peasant ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Geography, Planning and Development ,ländlicher Raum ,oil palm ,Ghana ,Landwirtschaft ,Entwicklungsland ,ddc:630 ,050207 economics ,agriculture ,05 social sciences ,Wirtschaft ,agricultural population ,employment ,Vertragsanbau ,Kreditbeschränkungen ,Ölpalme ,Palmöl ,050202 agricultural economics & policy ,contract farming ,Economics and Econometrics ,Kreditmarkt ,Fremdfinanzierung ,Bauer ,In kind ,Westafrika ,rural area ,agricultural industry ,credit constraints ,West Africa ,0502 economics and business ,ddc:330 ,Palm oil ,Finanzierung ,outside financing ,Contract farming ,inkind credits ,Finance ,business.industry ,Agrarberuf ,funding ,Agrarindustrie ,developing country ,agriculture job ,Agrarbevölkerung ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Beschäftigung ,Animal Science and Zoology ,business ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Food Science - Abstract
Access to credit is a key prerequisite for the development of smallholder agriculture. However, rural credit markets are typically characterized by market failures and smallholder credit access is limited. Resource‐providing contracts are an institutional tool to overcome credit market failures through the provision of production inputs in the form of in‐kind credit. Previous research has shown that interlinkage of contract and credit helps farmers overcome financial constraints, foster production investments, and hence increase productivities and income. However, if and how such contract schemes affect farmers' overall demand for and access to formal credit from other sources is not yet well understood. In this article, we therefore investigate the associations of the provision of in‐kind credit and farming households' formal credit demand and ability to receive formal credit. We use data of 463 oil palm producers in Ghana and show that participation in contract farming is associated with an increase in credit demand. Concerning credit approval, we find that the outstanding debt of the in‐kind credit scheme is associated with a substantially lower likelihood of credit acceptance. However, the results also suggest that farmers can fully compensate this negative effect by informing the bank about the contract, and thus the source of the debt. This indicates that debt acquired from resource‐providing contract schemes does not necessarily pose an additional credit constraint to farmers. [EconLit Citation G21, G23, O16, O17].
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- 2021
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8. Traditionelle Verfahren und Instrumente der Kostenrechnung im Sozialwesen
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Roth, Christian and Roth, Christian
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Der vorliegende Beitrag konzentriert sich auf die Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung eines fiktiven Seniorendienstes, an dem einzelne Instrumente der Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung exemplarisch aufgezeigt werden. Die Vorgehensweise orientiert sich an den traditionellen Verfahren der Kostenrechnung: Kostenarten-, Kostenstellen- und Kostenträgerrechnung (vgl. Pracht, 2013). Die Erfassung und Verteilung der Kosten nach diesen drei aufeinander aufbauenden Verfahren werden mit verfahrensspezifischen Instrumenten, die zur Beantwortung unterschiedlicher Fragen dienen, umgesetzt.
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- 2022
9. Steueroasen: Über ein lukratives Geschäftsmodell
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Ötsch, Silke and Ötsch, Silke
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- 2022
10. Company Builder und ihre Beschäftigungswirkung in Deutschland
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Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Company Builder unterstützen Gründer aktiv und mit einer eigenen Systematik in allen Gründungsphasen, halten dazu häufig eigene Ressourcen bereit und kontrollieren die neuen Startups durch eigene Equity-Anteile oder als Dienstleister für einen strategischen Kunden. In diesem Beitrag wird die Beschäftigungswirkung der Company Builder anhand eines Samples von rund 2.200 Venture-Capital-finanzierten Startups in Deutschland untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Company Builder an der Finanzierung von 12 % der Startups beteiligt waren und ihre Startups die größten Beschäftigungsgewinne verzeichneten. Es werden die sektorale und regionale Strukturen der von Company Buildern finanzierten Startups untersucht und Schlussfolgerungen für die Wagniskapitalpolitik gezogen.
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- 2022
11. 'Don't Crunch My Credit': Member State Governments' Preferences on Bank Capital Requirements
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Commain, Sébastien and Commain, Sébastien
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Across Europe, banks remain, to this day, the main suppliers of finance to the European economy, but also a source of systemic risk. As such, regulating them requires that policymakers find an appropriate balance between restricting their risk-taking behaviour and increasing lending to support economic growth. However, the 'varieties of financial capitalism' that characterize national banking sectors in Europe mean that the adoption of harmonised capital requirements has different effects across countries, depending on the country-specific institutional setting through which banks provide lending to the national economy. This article conducts a new analysis of Member State governments' positions in the post-financial crisis reform of the EU capital requirements legislation, expanding the scope of previous studies on the topic. Here, I examine in detail the positions of Member States on a wider set of issues and for a broader set of countries than the existing literature. Building on the varieties of financial capitalism approach, I explain these positions with regard to structural features of national banking sectors. I find that Member State governments' positions reveal a general agreement with the proposed increase of bank capital requirements, while seeking targeted exemptions and preferential treatment that they deem necessary to preserve their domestic supply of retail credit.
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- 2022
12. Scrutiny or Complacency? Banking Union in the Bundestag and the Assemblée Nationale
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Högenauer, Anna-Lena and Högenauer, Anna-Lena
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The financial and eurozone crises highlighted the inadequacy of the original governance structures of the eurozone. In response, a range of reforms were launched, including the creation of a European banking union. In practice, some elements of the banking union were delayed by division among member states and the breakdown of the Franco-German motor, such as the question of the operationalization of the single resolution mechanism and fund or the deposit insurance scheme. In addition, eurozone governance - which would once have been regarded as a technocratic issue - became increasingly politicized. The aim of this article is to study the extent to which the banking union was scrutinized by parliament and to what degree this reflects material interests and ideas. For this purpose, it focuses on salience (i.e., how much attention the issue received) and polarization (i.e., the divergence of positions). The analysis of the resolutions and debates of the German Bundestag and French Assemblée Nationale, i.e., the parliaments of two key states in EU decision-making on banking union, finds that the German government was indeed closely scrutinized, whereas the French government was relatively unconstrained.
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- 2022
13. Private Equity in Germany: An assessment of transactions, structures and players
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Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Since the last global financial crisis, private equity activities have increased again in Germany. This article provides an overview of developments between 2012 and 2018 from an employee perspective. It shows the volume and sectoral focus of company takeovers, the new owners after the exit of financial investors, and the proportion of companies in which parity co-determination is practiced. It also examines the most active private equity firms, their funds, their returns and their use of tax havens.
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- 2022
14. ‘Don’t Crunch My Credit’: Member State Governments’ Preferences on Bank Capital Requirements
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Sébastien Commain
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banking supervision ,capital requirements directive ,European Politics ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,Economics ,Politikwissenschaft ,economic union ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,finance ,Financial system ,Legislation ,Europapolitik ,Regulierung ,Basel III ,Capital Requirements Directive ,Capital Requirements Regulation ,banking regulation ,financial capitalism ,financial crisis ,Political science (General) ,0502 economics and business ,ddc:330 ,050602 political science & public administration ,Systemic risk ,Capital requirement ,Member state ,050207 economics ,Political science ,capital requirements regulation ,Bankenaufsicht ,05 social sciences ,nationale Politik ,Wirtschaft ,Wirtschaftsunion ,Kontrolle ,regulation ,national politics ,Capitalism ,0506 political science ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Balance (accounting) ,ddc:320 ,Financial crisis ,Business ,basel iii ,EU ,Finanzwirtschaft ,control ,JA1-92 - Abstract
Across Europe, banks remain, to this day, the main suppliers of finance to the European economy, but also a source of systemic risk. As such, regulating them requires that policymakers find an appropriate balance between restricting their risk-taking behaviour and increasing lending to support economic growth. However, the ‘varieties of financial capitalism’ that characterize national banking sectors in Europe mean that the adoption of harmonised capital requirements has different effects across countries, depending on the country-specific institutional setting through which banks provide lending to the national economy. This article conducts a new analysis of Member State governments’ positions in the post-financial crisis reform of the EU capital requirements legislation, expanding the scope of previous studies on the topic. Here, I examine in detail the positions of Member States on a wider set of issues and for a broader set of countries than the existing literature. Building on the varieties of financial capitalism approach, I explain these positions with regard to structural features of national banking sectors. I find that Member State governments’ positions reveal a general agreement with the proposed increase of bank capital requirements, while seeking targeted exemptions and preferential treatment that they deem necessary to preserve their domestic supply of retail credit.
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- 2021
15. CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES FOR MICRO-BUSINESSES IN ADAPTING IFRS FOR SMES REQUIREMENTS: KOSOVO EVIDENCE
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Esat Durguti and Erëza A. Arifi
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Public Administration ,Economics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Mittelbetrieb ,Kosovo ,Control variable ,Context (language use) ,Accounting ,rendering of accounts ,Audit ,International Financial Reporting Standards ,Political theory ,Probit model ,ddc:330 ,Finanzierung ,Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises ,Set (psychology) ,Kleinbetrieb ,media_common ,Variables ,business.industry ,funding ,Wirtschaft ,medium-sized firm ,Rechnungslegung ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,small business ,Political Science and International Relations ,Position (finance) ,Business ,JC11-607 ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a vital position in the international economy. The study aims to examine the compulsory financial reporting requirements set by the Kosovo Council for Financial Reporting (KCFR) as well as SMEs requirements for reviewing the current classification in the Kosovo context. This study, like most relevant studies, employs ordinal probit regression to examine the relationships among the requirements defined as dependent variables and other control variables such as necessary reclassification review under KCFR, preferred reclassification review under KCFR, experience knowledge of accountants and auditors, continuously education concerning financial reporting, and assessments of business owners. According to the reported conclusions, the application of these requirements in the Kosovo context does not create any opportunities for SMEs. On the contrary, the findings point to a thorough review of the reporting requirements for micro-businesses, as the current classification appears to be a burden for these businesses.
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- 2021
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16. Private Equity in Germany: An assessment of transactions, structures and players
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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Finanzinvestor ,Private Equity ,Fonds ,Offshore-Finanzzentrum ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,ddc:330 ,Management Science ,Wirtschaft ,Management - Abstract
Since the last global financial crisis, private equity activities have increased again in Germany. This article provides an overview of developments between 2012 and 2018 from an employee perspective. It shows the volume and sectoral focus of company takeovers, the new owners after the exit of financial investors, and the proportion of companies in which parity co-determination is practiced. It also examines the most active private equity firms, their funds, their returns and their use of tax havens.
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- 2022
17. Company Builder und ihre Beschäftigungswirkung in Deutschland
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT)
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Arbeitsmarktforschung ,Economics ,Beschäftigungseffekt ,Geschäftsmodell ,funding ,business concept ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Unternehmensgründung ,Wirtschaft ,Federal Republic of Germany ,effect on employment ,new economy ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Berlin ,Company Builder ,Inkubator ,Accelerator ,Wagniskapital ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Kapitalmarkt ,capital market ,ddc:330 ,Finanzierung ,Labor Market Research ,Innovation ,setting up a business - Abstract
Company Builder unterstützen Gründer aktiv und mit einer eigenen Systematik in allen Gründungsphasen, halten dazu häufig eigene Ressourcen bereit und kontrollieren die neuen Startups durch eigene Equity-Anteile oder als Dienstleister für einen strategischen Kunden. In diesem Beitrag wird die Beschäftigungswirkung der Company Builder anhand eines Samples von rund 2.200 Venture-Capital-finanzierten Startups in Deutschland untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Company Builder an der Finanzierung von 12 % der Startups beteiligt waren und ihre Startups die größten Beschäftigungsgewinne verzeichneten. Es werden die sektorale und regionale Strukturen der von Company Buildern finanzierten Startups untersucht und Schlussfolgerungen für die Wagniskapitalpolitik gezogen.
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- 2022
18. Assessment and ways to increase the rate of return in the Russian medium-sized agricultural enterprises
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Mindlin, Yury, Novikov, Mikhail, and Yakovleva, Olga
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Rechnungswesen ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Mittelbetrieb ,accounting ,Wirtschaft ,costs ,medium-sized firm ,investment income ,economic success ,Russia ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Kapitalertrag ,Rate of return ,Enterprise ,Return ratios ,Financial system ,Rate of return assessment ,Kosten ,ddc:330 ,Russland ,wirtschaftlicher Erfolg ,farm ,Agrarbetrieb - Abstract
The rate of return (profitability) is the category that allows evaluation of financial, production and other costs of the enterprise. The detailed analysis of return ratios enables to regulate the enterprise financial system and has a positive effect on its financial performance. The article considers the method of the rate of return assessment and suggests the ways to increase it. The case of the medium-sized agro-industrial company was used. Based on the financial performance of the enterprise, the range of the rate of return indicators was calculated, such as fixed assets, rate of return on current assets and on equity capital, gross profit margin, operating and net profit margin. Based on the calculations, the authors show that the rate of return of the enterprise increased, and a high efficiency of operations was observed. However, at the same time, there are tasks to be solved. One of them is to introduce a payment schedule. The analysis of the financial effect of the payment schedule introduction showed that it increased the current rate of return of the enterprise by 10%.
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- 2022
19. Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention
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Carlos Larrinaga, Francisco Carrasco, María A. García-Benau, and Pablo Archel
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Manifesto ,Industrial management ,Information Systems and Management ,critical accounting ,Sociology and Political Science ,Economics ,Accounting scholarship ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,accounting ,Empresas-Gestión ,Reflexivität ,Legislation ,Context (language use) ,Accounting ,Law and economics ,industrielle Beziehungen ,industrial relations ,Political science ,Reflexivity ,ddc:330 ,Industrial relations ,Spanien ,Rechnungswesen ,ISSP ,business.industry ,reflexivity ,Wirtschaft ,UNESCO::CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS ,Intellectual interventions ,Intellectual capital ,Critical accounting ,Work Orientations III - ISSP 2005 (ZA4350 v2.0.0) ,International Social Survey Programme: Work Orientations IV - ISSP 2015 (ZA6770 v2.1.0) [critical accounting ,intellectual interventions ,International Social Survey Programme] ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Spain ,Capital (economics) ,intellectual ,Derecho y economía ,business ,Finance ,Intellektueller - Abstract
This paper explores the social and political potential of accounting scholarship, presenting and discussing an intellectual intervention challenging a legislative reform that significantly affected Spanish industrial relations. In this reform, an accounting artifact (forecasted losses) played an unexpected role and was misrepresented, prompting a sizeable number of scholars to sign two manifestos in 2010 and 2012 against the use of forecasted losses made by the new legislation. As promoters of this manifesto, we perform in this paper a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on the context, events, reactions, and significance of this intervention for both the academic and the industrial relations fields. We mobilize Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on the public intellectual to think more generally about academic engagements in the interplay between accounting, policymaking, and social issues. This intervention illustrates the different manners in which administrative and economic powers interfered in the Spanish accounting academic field, limiting the disposition of Spanish scholars to engage in public debates. We also interpret our engagement as mobilizing intellectual capital to expose how the notion of forecasted losses was used to produce a form of symbolic violence and how this capital is more effective as it produces messages addressed to the producers, i.e., policymakers and the judicature in this specific case., Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, FEDER and Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León (Grants RTI2018-099920-B-I00 and BU058P17).
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- 2021
20. Private Equity Monitor: Die Aktivität von Private-Equity-Gesellschaften in Deutschland von 2012 bis 2018 in der Gesamtschau
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Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Scheuplein, Christoph, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Die Aktivitäten von Private Equity haben in Deutschland nach der letzten Weltfinanzkrise wieder zugenommen. Die Study bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen in den Jahren 2012 bis 2018 aus arbeitnehmerorientierter Sicht. Sie zeigt u. a. das Volumen und die sektoralen Schwerpunkte von Unternehmensübernahmen, die neuen Eigentümer nach dem Ausstieg der Finanzinvestoren und den Anteil der Unternehmen, in denen die paritätische Mitbestimmung angewandt wird. Betrachtet werden auch die aktivsten Private-Equity-Gesellschaften, ihre Nutzung von Steueroasen sowie ihre Fonds und deren Renditen.
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- 2021
21. Challenges and difficulties for micro-businesses in adapting IFRS for SMEs requirements: Kosovo evidence
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Durguti, Esat A., Arifi, Erëza A., Durguti, Esat A., and Arifi, Erëza A.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a vital position in the international economy. The study aims to examine the compulsory financial reporting requirements set by the Kosovo Council for Financial Reporting (KCFR) as well as SMEs requirements for reviewing the current classification in the Kosovo context. This study, like most relevant studies, employs ordinal probit regression to examine the relationships among the requirements defined as dependent variables and other control variables such as necessary reclassification review under KCFR, preferred reclassification review under KCFR, experience knowledge of accountants and auditors, continuously education concerning financial reporting, and assessments of business owners. According to the reported conclusions, the application of these requirements in the Kosovo context does not create any opportunities for SMEs. On the contrary, the findings point to a thorough review of the reporting requirements for micro-businesses, as the current classification appears to be a burden for these businesses.
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- 2021
22. Analyzing the variables that influence access to bank financing for small and medium enterprises in Kosovo and North Macedonia
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Kunoviku-Demiri, Filloreta, Tmava, Qazim, Durguti, Esat A., Kunoviku-Demiri, Filloreta, Tmava, Qazim, and Durguti, Esat A.
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This study aims to analyze variables that influence access to bank loans by SMEs in Kosovo and North Macedonia. Research methodology is compound by primary and secondary data. We hypothesized that the age of the SMEs, business size, written business plan, collateral type, and business experience before starting as an owner, owner education, and owner gender influence access to bank loans for SMEs. Econometric model results revealed that age of the SMEs, business size, and written business plan has a significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs, while, collateral type, business experience before starting as an owner, owner level of education, and owner gender have no significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs in the Republic of Kosovo. Furthermore, from the results obtained we revealed that age of the SMEs, business size, written business plan, and owners’ level of education has a significant influence on bank loan borrowed by SMEs, whereas, collateral type, business experience before starting as owner and owners gender have no significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs in the Republic of North Macedonia. The findings suggest some future lines of research at the end and provide recommendations for the main stakeholders of this field of study.
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- 2021
23. Neue Wagniskapitalformen in Deutschland
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Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Die Studie bietet einen empirischen Überblick über den Gesamtbestand an Wagniskapitalfinanzierern in Deutschland. Speziell werden die neuen Formen der Wagniskapitalfinanzierung betrachtet, die neben Kapital auch Beratung, Infrastruktur (IT, Büroraum) und Vernetzung mit Kunden und Partnern anbieten. Für diese Acceleratoren, Inkubatoren und Company Builder werden ihre Anteile an dem Gesamtbestand der Wagniskapitalfinanzierer, der Verlauf ihres Markteintritts, die Anteile selbständiger, Konzern-getragener und staatlicher Inkubationsfinanzierung sowie ihre regionale Verteilung dargestellt. Dabei wird Berlin als der mit Abstand wichtigste Standort vor München und Hamburg identifiziert. Insgesamt hat sich die Inkubationsfinanzierung in Deutschland als ein beachtliches Segment und als eine Alternative zu den traditionellen Wagniskapitalfinanzierern etabliert.
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- 2021
24. Three Ideas to Improve the International Role of the ECB
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Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V., Valleé, Shahin, Gabor, Daniela, Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V., Valleé, Shahin, and Gabor, Daniela
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The ECB has been forced - in part by the COVID-19 crisis - to review its bilateral arrangements with foreign central banks. But the recent changes made by the ECB fall short of the European Commission’s ambitions to boost the international role of the euro. We suggest the ECB should put in place an alternative three-pillar framework to improve the international role of the ECB and cement its pivotal role in the international financial system.
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- 2021
25. Access to credit as a determinant of autonomous adaptation to climate change: A meta-analysis of the evidence in low- and middle-income countries
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Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Fernández de Velasco, Guido, Leppert, Gerald, Moull, Kevin, Prowse, Martin, Puri, Jyotsna, Reumann, Andreas, Sánchez Torrente, Luis, Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval), Fernández de Velasco, Guido, Leppert, Gerald, Moull, Kevin, Prowse, Martin, Puri, Jyotsna, Reumann, Andreas, and Sánchez Torrente, Luis
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This study assesses the role that access to credit plays in determining the uptake of adaptation measures in the agricultural sector. To this end, this meta-analysis synthesizes relevant studies contained in a recently published evidence gap map (EGM) on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions in low- and middle-income countries. The results show a significant disparity of effects, with a large proportion of studies showing that credit-related variables do not significantly affect decisions to adopt adaptation measures. Furthermore, our meta-regression shows that certain study design elements have a strong correlation with the studies' results, such as estimation method, number of covariates and selection of control variables. We conclude that narrower definitions of credit variables, together with counterfactual study designs, should be used to obtain more reliable and robust evidence on the subject. From a policy perspective, access to credit, while important and relevant for building resilience and encouraging investments, might not be a sufficient factor in encouraging autonomous adaptation. When designing financial products, it is essential to consider the preferences among highly vulnerable households and individuals, who may channel resources towards other needs., Diese Studie untersucht die Rolle des Zugangs zu Krediten für die Aufnahme von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel im Agrarsektor. Dazu werden in dieser Metaanalyse die - für diese Forschungsfrage relevanten - Studien synthetisiert, welche in einer kürzlich veröffentlichten Karte der Evidenzlücken (Evidence Gap Map, EGM) über die Wirksamkeit von Anpassungsmaßnahmen in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen enthalten sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen signifikante Unterschiede in den Auswirkungen. Ein großer Anteil der Studien zeigt, dass kreditbezogene Variablen die Entscheidungen zur Aufnahme von Anpassungsmaßnahmen nicht signifikant beeinflussen. Darüber hinaus zeigt eine Meta-Regression, dass bestimmte Elemente des Studiendesigns eine starke Korrelation mit den Ergebnissen der Studien aufweisen, wie beispielsweise die Schätzmethode, die Anzahl der Kovariaten und die Auswahl der Kontrollvariablen. Eine Schlussfolgerung ist, dass eine engere Definition der Variable "Zugang zu Krediten" zusammen mit kontrafaktischen Studiendesigns verwendet werden sollten, um zuverlässigere und robustere Evidenz zu diesem Thema zu generieren. Aus politischer Sicht ist der Zugang zu Krediten zwar wichtig und relevant für Resilienzstärkung und Investitionen, aber möglicherweise kein ausreichender Faktor zur Förderung autonomer Anpassung. Bei der Gestaltung von Finanzprodukten ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Präferenzen von hochgradig vulnerablen Haushalten und Individuen zu berücksichtigen, die ihre Ressourcen möglicherweise für andere Bedürfnisse einsetzen.
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- 2021
26. Wie entwickeln sich Unternehmen mit Private-Equity-Eigentümern in Deutschland?
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Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Der Einfluss von Private Equity-Investoren auf deutsche Unternehmen hat seit der Finanzkrise laufend zugenommen. Aus Arbeitnehmerperspektive stehen insbesondere Fragen zur Beschäftigungsentwicklung und zur finanziellen Stabilität der betroffenen Unternehmen im Vordergrund. In der vorliegenden Studie wird empirisch untersucht, wie sich Wachstum, Beschäftigung und Finanzierung von Unternehmen entwickelt haben, die 2013 von Private Equity-Investoren übernommen wurden. Zur spezifischen Beurteilung des Faktors "Private Equity" wird eine Vergleichsgruppe von Unternehmen ohne Private Equity-Eigentümer herangezogen.
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- 2020
27. Wer kommt, wenn Private Equity geht? Langfristige Wirkungen auf die Eigentümerstruktur deutscher Unternehmen
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Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Private Equity ist eine Investition auf Zeit, wobei der Ausstieg ("Exit") der Private-Equity-Gesellschaft eine wichtige Weichenstellung für das Portfolio-Unternehmen darstellt. Bislang ist umstritten, ob die Unternehmen damit in tragfähige Eigentümerstrukturen überführt werden. Der Beitrag untersucht die Eigentümerstrukturen für sämtliche Unternehmen, die in Deutschland in den Jahren 2012 bis 2015 von einer Private-Equity-Gesellschaft übernommen worden waren. Dabei konnte für 423 Unternehmen bis zum September 2020 ein Exit festgestellt werden. Es wird gezeigt, dass nur eine Minderheit der Unternehmen bei diesem Exit eine nachhaltige Eigentümerstruktur erhalten hat. Während mehr als zwei Fünftel der Unternehmen von einer weiteren Private-Equity-Gesellschaft übernommen worden ist, geriet ein Fünftel der Unternehmen in eine finanzielle Notsituation, die sich vor allem über Insolvenzanmeldungen abbildet. Zugleich ist mit dem Exit eine starke Internationalisierung der Eigentümerschaft verbunden, wobei die neuen Eigentümer aus anderen europäischen Ländern (29%), Asien (20%) sowie aus den USA oder Großbritannien (19%) stammten.
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- 2020
28. Nudging Subjects at Risk: Social Impact Bonds between Financialization and Compassion
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Wirth, Manuel and Wirth, Manuel
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This paper explores the consequences of a recent Social Impact Bond (SIB) implementation in the UK at the level of everyday practices in three youth homelessness charities. By focusing on the effects of measuring and valuation devices, it is argued that the SIB transforms the way social welfare is delivered: it redefines practices, relationships, and interactions within service provision along the ambiguous dynamics of marketization processes. On the one hand, this is characterized by moments of creative articulation whereby service interventions connect a multitude of logics and narratives and exhibit both an emotionalized and behaviorist content. On the other hand, as this paper shows, economic principles underpinning the SIB are performatively actualized in the scheme, shaping interactions and relationships. The paper concludes that these two processes should be conceived not as mutually exclusive but as concomitant, yet conflictive forces that shape the marketization process of SIBs.
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- 2020
29. Constructing the Double Circulation of Capital and 'Social Impact': An Ethnographic Study of a French Impact Investment Fund
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Bourgeron, Théo and Bourgeron, Théo
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Elaborating on a three-month ethnography of an impact investing fund called Impact Equity, this article aims to understand the mechanisms at work in the emergence of the impact investing sector. After presenting the case of Impact Equity (section 1), the article details the norms and devices through which impact investing is constructed in everyday financial work (sections 2 and 3) and investigates how impact investors mobilise moral beliefs and strategic motivations to navigate competing definitions of “social impact” (section 4). In doing so, this article outlines how the construction of the sector has involved the creation of channels enabling capital and “social impact” to circulate between institutional investors, impact investment funds, and “impactful businesses,” and it highlights the historical tensions that this process has involved.
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- 2020
30. Feeling Good and Financing Impact: Affective Judgments as a Tool for Social Investing
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Hellman, Jacob and Hellman, Jacob
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This article analyzes how moralized repertoires get linked to affective judgments to form the early-stage social impact investor, a financial subject who invests in startups for both profit and positive social impact. It draws on interviews with and observations of investors in San Diego, California. The financialization of social activities generally proceeds by quantification and commensuration. However, for startups, nothing yet exists to quantify. Instead, investors narrate ethical conversions, and evaluate through affective knowing and encounters with entrepreneurs. Simultaneously, they draw on financial skills, technologies, and disciplines to grow these startups. Startups must soon quantify their social impact to attract bigger investors, suggesting how affective and moralized forms of relation may persist, even when subsumed within larger financial flows governed by quantified reasoning.
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- 2020
31. Impact Investing in South Africa: Investing in Empowerment, Empowering Investors
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Ducastel, Antoine, Anseeuw, Ward, Ducastel, Antoine, and Anseeuw, Ward
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This paper examines how Impact Investment (II) becomes part and transforms structured accumulation regimes and circuits, with a particular emphasis on South Africa's agricultural sector. Through the joint implementation of a macro study of the South African II circuits, and a micro study of a particular II fund’s practices and impacts, the paper develops an in-depth political economy assessment of II circuits in order to historicize these circuits, to map the South African II community, and to characterize the power balances presently structuring it. Rather than highlighting ruptures, it draws the attention to the historical continuities and path-dependencies as II related tools are rooted into older financial practices, shaping today's II development and practice - hence questioning II as a tool for empowerment.
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- 2020
32. Scrutiny or Complacency? Banking Union in the Bundestag and the Assemblée Nationale
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Anna-Lena Högenauer and Institute of Advanced Studies [sponsor]
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Single Resolution Mechanism ,parliament ,Public Administration ,Sociology and Political Science ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Frankreich ,monetary policy ,Finanzpolitik ,Europapolitik ,banking union ,Germany ,050602 political science & public administration ,European Policy ,Political science ,media_common ,Bundestag ,Sciences politiques, administration publique & relations internationales [E08] [Droit, criminologie & sciences politiques] ,Corporate governance ,05 social sciences ,Wirtschaft ,Technocracy ,0506 political science ,european deposit insurance scheme ,Political science, public administration & international relations [E08] [Law, criminology & political science] ,Banking union ,France ,Eurozone ,france ,fiscal policy ,Scrutiny ,Geldpolitik ,European Politics ,Parliament ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Politikwissenschaft ,banking ,finance ,germany ,Assemblée Nationale ,050601 international relations ,Political science (General) ,ddc:330 ,Deutschland ,SSM ,EDIS ,Polarization (politics) ,European deposit insurance scheme ,single resolution fund ,single resolution mechanism ,single supervisory mechanism ,European Central Bank ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Political economy ,ddc:320 ,Deposit insurance ,Bankgewerbe ,EU ,Finanzwirtschaft ,JA1-92 - Abstract
The financial and eurozone crises highlighted the inadequacy of the original governance structures of the eurozone. In response, a range of reforms were launched, including the creation of a European banking union. In practice, some elements of the banking union were delayed by division among member states and the breakdown of the Franco-German motor, such as the question of the operationalization of the single resolution mechanism and fund or the deposit insurance scheme. In addition, eurozone governance—which would once have been regarded as a technocratic issue—became increasingly politicized. The aim of this article is to study the extent to which the banking union was scrutinized by parliament and to what degree this reflects material interests and ideas. For this purpose, it focuses on salience (i.e., how much attention the issue received) and polarization (i.e., the divergence of positions). The analysis of the resolutions and debates of the German Bundestag and French Assemblée Nationale, i.e., the parliaments of two key states in EU decision-making on banking union, finds that the German government was indeed closely scrutinized, whereas the French government was relatively unconstrained.
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- 2021
33. Access to credit as a determinant of autonomous adaptation to climate change: A meta-analysis of the evidence in low- and middle-income countries
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Fernández de Velasco, Guido, Leppert, Gerald, Moull, Kevin, Prowse, Martin, Puri, Jyotsna, Reumann, Andreas, Sánchez Torrente, Luis, and Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (DEval)
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Klimawandel ,Ecology ,lending ,Economics ,meta-analysis ,access to credit ,autonomous adaptation ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,developing country ,Wirtschaft ,adaptation ,Ecology, Environment ,Ökologie und Umwelt ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,climate change ,Landwirtschaft ,Entwicklungsland ,ddc:330 ,Kreditvergabe ,Ökologie ,Anpassung ,ddc:577 ,agriculture - Abstract
This study assesses the role that access to credit plays in determining the uptake of adaptation measures in the agricultural sector. To this end, this meta-analysis synthesizes relevant studies contained in a recently published evidence gap map (EGM) on the effectiveness of climate change adaptation interventions in low- and middle-income countries. The results show a significant disparity of effects, with a large proportion of studies showing that credit-related variables do not significantly affect decisions to adopt adaptation measures. Furthermore, our meta-regression shows that certain study design elements have a strong correlation with the studies' results, such as estimation method, number of covariates and selection of control variables. We conclude that narrower definitions of credit variables, together with counterfactual study designs, should be used to obtain more reliable and robust evidence on the subject. From a policy perspective, access to credit, while important and relevant for building resilience and encouraging investments, might not be a sufficient factor in encouraging autonomous adaptation. When designing financial products, it is essential to consider the preferences among highly vulnerable households and individuals, who may channel resources towards other needs. Diese Studie untersucht die Rolle des Zugangs zu Krediten für die Aufnahme von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel im Agrarsektor. Dazu werden in dieser Metaanalyse die - für diese Forschungsfrage relevanten - Studien synthetisiert, welche in einer kürzlich veröffentlichten Karte der Evidenzlücken (Evidence Gap Map, EGM) über die Wirksamkeit von Anpassungsmaßnahmen in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen enthalten sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen signifikante Unterschiede in den Auswirkungen. Ein großer Anteil der Studien zeigt, dass kreditbezogene Variablen die Entscheidungen zur Aufnahme von Anpassungsmaßnahmen nicht signifikant beeinflussen. Darüber hinaus zeigt eine Meta-Regression, dass bestimmte Elemente des Studiendesigns eine starke Korrelation mit den Ergebnissen der Studien aufweisen, wie beispielsweise die Schätzmethode, die Anzahl der Kovariaten und die Auswahl der Kontrollvariablen. Eine Schlussfolgerung ist, dass eine engere Definition der Variable "Zugang zu Krediten" zusammen mit kontrafaktischen Studiendesigns verwendet werden sollten, um zuverlässigere und robustere Evidenz zu diesem Thema zu generieren. Aus politischer Sicht ist der Zugang zu Krediten zwar wichtig und relevant für Resilienzstärkung und Investitionen, aber möglicherweise kein ausreichender Faktor zur Förderung autonomer Anpassung. Bei der Gestaltung von Finanzprodukten ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, die Präferenzen von hochgradig vulnerablen Haushalten und Individuen zu berücksichtigen, die ihre Ressourcen möglicherweise für andere Bedürfnisse einsetzen.
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34. Three Ideas to Improve the International Role of the ECB
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Valleé, Shahin, Gabor, Daniela, and Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
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bilaterale Beziehungen ,European Politics ,Economics ,Politikwissenschaft ,Euro ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Wirtschaft ,Finanzpolitik ,Europapolitik ,European Central Bank ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,ddc:320 ,ddc:330 ,Europäische Zentralbank ,bilateral relations ,EU ,Political science ,fiscal policy - Abstract
The ECB has been forced - in part by the COVID-19 crisis - to review its bilateral arrangements with foreign central banks. But the recent changes made by the ECB fall short of the European Commission’s ambitions to boost the international role of the euro. We suggest the ECB should put in place an alternative three-pillar framework to improve the international role of the ECB and cement its pivotal role in the international financial system.
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- 2021
35. Analyzing the variables that influence access to bank financing for small and medium enterprises in Kosovo and North Macedonia
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Qazim Tmava, Esat Durguti, and Filloreta Kunoviku-Demiri
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Public Administration ,Collateral ,Economics ,Research methodology ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Kosovo ,Mittelbetrieb ,SMEs ,Growth ,Comparison ,Political theory ,Mazedonien ,Kredit ,ddc:330 ,Finanzierung ,Business plan ,Kleinbetrieb ,Finance ,Wirtschaftswachstum ,business.industry ,funding ,Wirtschaft ,Small business ,medium-sized firm ,economic growth ,Macedonia ,Econometric model ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Loan ,small business ,Political Science and International Relations ,Small and medium-sized enterprises ,Bank Loans ,Financing ,business ,JC11-607 ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,North Macedonia ,credit - Abstract
This study aims to analyze variables that influence access to bank loans by SMEs in Kosovo and North Macedonia. Research methodology is compound by primary and secondary data. We hypothesized that the age of the SMEs, business size, written business plan, collateral type, and business experience before starting as an owner, owner education, and owner gender influence access to bank loans for SMEs. Econometric model results revealed that age of the SMEs, business size, and written business plan has a significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs, while, collateral type, business experience before starting as an owner, owner level of education, and owner gender have no significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs in the Republic of Kosovo. Furthermore, from the results obtained we revealed that age of the SMEs, business size, written business plan, and owners’ level of education has a significant influence on bank loan borrowed by SMEs, whereas, collateral type, business experience before starting as owner and owners gender have no significant influence on bank loans borrowed by SMEs in the Republic of North Macedonia. The findings suggest some future lines of research at the end and provide recommendations for the main stakeholders of this field of study.
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- 2021
36. Private Equity Monitor: Die Aktivität von Private-Equity-Gesellschaften in Deutschland von 2012 bis 2018 in der Gesamtschau
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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Finanzinvestor ,Private Equity ,Fonds ,Offshore-Finanzzentrum ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,ddc:330 ,Management Science ,Wirtschaft ,Management - Abstract
Die Aktivitäten von Private Equity haben in Deutschland nach der letzten Weltfinanzkrise wieder zugenommen. Die Study bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen in den Jahren 2012 bis 2018 aus arbeitnehmerorientierter Sicht. Sie zeigt u. a. das Volumen und die sektoralen Schwerpunkte von Unternehmensübernahmen, die neuen Eigentümer nach dem Ausstieg der Finanzinvestoren und den Anteil der Unternehmen, in denen die paritätische Mitbestimmung angewandt wird. Betrachtet werden auch die aktivsten Private-Equity-Gesellschaften, ihre Nutzung von Steueroasen sowie ihre Fonds und deren Renditen.
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- 2021
37. Wie entwickeln sich Unternehmen mit Private-Equity-Eigentümern in Deutschland?
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Institut für Mitbestimmung und Unternehmensführung (I.M.U.) der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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Wachstum ,Economics ,Beschäftigungseffekt ,Fremdkapital ,growth ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Eigenkapital ,Management Science ,Wirtschaft ,enterprise ,effect on employment ,Federal Republic of Germany ,Lohnhöhe ,Private Equity ,Buyout ,Verschuldung ,Finanzialisierung ,Unternehmen ,borrowed capital ,wage level ,economic success ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Management ,equity ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,ddc:330 ,wirtschaftlicher Erfolg - Abstract
Der Einfluss von Private Equity-Investoren auf deutsche Unternehmen hat seit der Finanzkrise laufend zugenommen. Aus Arbeitnehmerperspektive stehen insbesondere Fragen zur Beschäftigungsentwicklung und zur finanziellen Stabilität der betroffenen Unternehmen im Vordergrund. In der vorliegenden Studie wird empirisch untersucht, wie sich Wachstum, Beschäftigung und Finanzierung von Unternehmen entwickelt haben, die 2013 von Private Equity-Investoren übernommen wurden. Zur spezifischen Beurteilung des Faktors "Private Equity" wird eine Vergleichsgruppe von Unternehmen ohne Private Equity-Eigentümer herangezogen.
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- 2020
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38. Steueroasen: Über ein lukratives Geschäftsmodell
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Ötsch, Silke
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Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,ddc:330 ,Wirtschaft ,Schattenökonomie ,Wirtschaft & Recht [Schwerpunkt] - Published
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39. Die Konstruktion der doppelten Zirkulation von Kapital und ,sozialem Impact‘. Eine ethnographische Studie über einen französischen Impact-Investitionsfond
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Bourgeron, Théo and GESIS-Leibniz-Institut Für Sozialwissenschaften
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Wert ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie ,Frankreich ,ethnography ,value ,Ethnographie ,social effects ,ddc:330 ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,Impact investing ,social impact ,social value ,social studies of finance ,impact equity ,France ,Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology ,Investition ,Wirtschaft ,investment ,soziale Folgen ,Geldanlage ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,ddc:300 ,Kapitalanlage ,financial investment - Abstract
Elaborating on a three-month ethnography of an impact investing fund called Impact Equity, this article aims to understand the mechanisms at work in the emergence of the impact investing sector. After presenting the case of Impact Equity (section 1), the article details the norms and devices through which impact investing is constructed in everyday financial work (sections 2 and 3) and investigates how impact investors mobilise moral beliefs and strategic motivations to navigate competing definitions of “social impact” (section 4). In doing so, this article outlines how the construction of the sector has involved the creation of channels enabling capital and “social impact” to circulate between institutional investors, impact investment funds, and “impactful businesses,” and it highlights the historical tensions that this process has involved.
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- 2020
40. Wer kommt, wenn Private Equity geht? Langfristige Wirkungen auf die Eigentümerstruktur deutscher Unternehmen
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT)
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Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,ddc:330 ,Wirtschaft ,Private Equity ,Buyouts ,Exits ,Insolvenzen ,Internationalisierung - Abstract
Private Equity ist eine Investition auf Zeit, wobei der Ausstieg ("Exit") der Private-Equity-Gesellschaft eine wichtige Weichenstellung für das Portfolio-Unternehmen darstellt. Bislang ist umstritten, ob die Unternehmen damit in tragfähige Eigentümerstrukturen überführt werden. Der Beitrag untersucht die Eigentümerstrukturen für sämtliche Unternehmen, die in Deutschland in den Jahren 2012 bis 2015 von einer Private-Equity-Gesellschaft übernommen worden waren. Dabei konnte für 423 Unternehmen bis zum September 2020 ein Exit festgestellt werden. Es wird gezeigt, dass nur eine Minderheit der Unternehmen bei diesem Exit eine nachhaltige Eigentümerstruktur erhalten hat. Während mehr als zwei Fünftel der Unternehmen von einer weiteren Private-Equity-Gesellschaft übernommen worden ist, geriet ein Fünftel der Unternehmen in eine finanzielle Notsituation, die sich vor allem über Insolvenzanmeldungen abbildet. Zugleich ist mit dem Exit eine starke Internationalisierung der Eigentümerschaft verbunden, wobei die neuen Eigentümer aus anderen europäischen Ländern (29%), Asien (20%) sowie aus den USA oder Großbritannien (19%) stammten.
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- 2020
41. Impact of Investment Efficiency on Cost of Equity: An Empirical Study on Shariah and Non Shariah Compliance Firms Listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange
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Abbas, Nasir, Ahmed, Haris, Malik, Qaisar Ali, and Waheed, Abdul
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Konkurs ,Economics ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Eigenkapital ,Südasien ,enterprise ,Pakistan stock exchange ,South Asia ,lcsh:JQ1-6651 ,lcsh:Business ,Unternehmen ,equity ,cost of equity ,ddc:330 ,Pakistan ,Effizienz ,Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) ,Finanzmanagement ,Investition ,Wirtschaft ,investment ,financial management ,Investment efficiency ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,bankruptcy ,lcsh:Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only) ,efficiency ,lcsh:HF5001-6182 - Abstract
The primary purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of investment efficiency on cost of the equity of firm. This study further explores whether the relationship of investment efficiency and cost of equity is different for the shariah and non shariah compliance firms. Using sample of 235 non financial firms listed at Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) for the period of 2005-2015, the results revealed that there is a negative significant influence of investment efficiency on the cost of equity. This signifies that investors required rate of return increases with the increase in the level of investment inefficiency. We also found out that the negative association of investment efficiency and cost of equity is weaker for the shariah compliance firms than for non shariah compliance firms. The results of our study also provided evidences that overinvestment is positively associated with the cost of equity. But we are unable to find significant impact of under investment on the cost of equity, this pointed that over investment is considered more serious problem for investors as compared to the underinvestment. The results furnished empirical support to our argument that shariah acts as a mechanism to lower bankruptcy and leverage cost hence reduce the cost of equity. The findings are helpful for academicians, regulators, investors and Shariah board. Further research may be conducted in different economies in order to generalize the findings.
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- 2018
42. Private-Equity-Investitionen im Pflegesektor: Relevanz, Dimensionen und Handlungserfordernisse
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Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Evans, Michaela, Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Evans, Michaela, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Der Beitrag beschreibt die Private Equity-Übernahmen im deutschen Pflegesektor in den Jahren 2013 bis 2018. Die Übernahmen werden in die Umbrüche des Pflegemarktes eingeordnet und Charakteristika der übernommenen Unternehmern sowie der jeweiligen Private Equity-Gesellschaften aufgezeigt.
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- 2019
43. The new politics of debt in the transition economy of Vietnam
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Nguyen, Hong-Kong T., Nguyen, Viet-Ha T., Vuong, Thu-Trang, Ho, Manh-Tung, Vuong, Quan-Hoang, Nguyen, Hong-Kong T., Nguyen, Viet-Ha T., Vuong, Thu-Trang, Ho, Manh-Tung, and Vuong, Quan-Hoang
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This study reviews the rising household debt and nonfinancial corporation debt in Vietnam, a socialist-oriented, lower middle-income emerging economy. Vietnam has made huge strides in economic growth within three decades of reforms, lifting millions of people out of poverty thanks to better access to credit. At the same time, there are lending and borrowing practices that signal troubles ahead. Based on a thorough examination of the theoretical literature on indebtedness, the study sets out to identify the drivers of borrowing and over-borrowing in Vietnam in recent years. Particularly, the abundant financial and physical resources have given rise to consumerism and the boom of the super-rich. These are two of the four factors that have shifted Vietnamese culture from one that traditionally condemned debt as a vice to one that now tolerates indebtedness. The other two factors can be found at the corporate level where there is an over-reliance on debt financing and rampant rent-seeking. Here, a kind of 'resource curse' threatens sustainable corporate growth - businesses rely too much on borrowing to fuel their operations, but in fact are overlooking the innovation factor. The new politics of debt, we suggest, have created a toxically pro-consumption, debt-tolerant society.
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- 2019
44. Private Equity Monitor 2018: Die aktuelle Tätigkeit von Finanzinvestoren in Deutschland
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Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Scheuplein, Christoph, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and Scheuplein, Christoph
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Der von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung herausgegebene "Private Equity Monitor" berichtet jährlich über die Aktivitäten von Private-Equity-Gesellschaften in Deutschland. Im Jahr 2017 wurden 274 Unternehmen übernommen, d.h. rund 30% mehr als im Jahr zuvor. Dies betraf vermehrt kleinere und mittlere Unternehmen, so dass die Zahl der Beschäftigten auf 93.200 gesunken ist (minus 13% gegenüber dem Vorjahr). Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Typen von Private Equity-Gesellschaften tätig waren und welche Eigentümer die Unternehmen nach dem Ausstieg des Finanzinvestors erhielten. Ebenso werden die von den Finanzinvestoren gesteuerten Fonds näher untersucht, z.B. ihre jährliche Renditen und ihre überwiegende Anmeldung in "Steueroasen". Erstmals wird die Vermeidung bzw. Ignorierung der Mitbestimmung in den Unternehmen mit mehr als 2.000 Beschäftigten näher betrachtet und es wird ein Ranking der beschäftigungsstärksten Buyouts in Deutschland eingeführt.
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- 2019
45. Innovation investment decisions: are post(transition) economies different from the rest of the EU?
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Bozic, Ljiljana, Botric, Valerija, Bozic, Ljiljana, and Botric, Valerija
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The slow progress of innovation in transition economies is not related just to firms' decision to invest in innovation activities. Rather, it is worth distinguishing between their decision to increase investment, reduce it, keep their investments at the same level or not invest in innovation activities at all. To understand these decisions we develop and estimate models for post-transition and developed European countries employing multinomial probit. The analysis relies on responses of 2580 firms from 11 post-transition countries and 4058 firms from 18 European countries collected by the Flash Eurobarometer 433 - Innobarometer 2016 survey. We have established that the firms' decision making process in general is mostly related to previous innovation investment experience. In transition countries, the higher the percent of turnover invested in innovation, the lower the probability of an increase in the future. In the firms operating in developed economies, lower turnover from new products is related to the decision to decrease innovation investment in the future.
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46. Система управління сталим розвитком підприємства готельно-ресторанного господарства на основі моніторингу витрат
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Judina, Olena Ivanivna
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sustainable development ,Monitoring ,Economics ,Controlling ,hotel and restaurant business ,target management ,system and process approaches ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Wirtschaft ,costs ,hotel and restaurant trade ,Management ,Gastgewerbe ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,nachhaltige Entwicklung ,Kosten ,ddc:330 - Abstract
Purpose: to formulate and justify the optimal system model for managing sustainable economic development of a hotel and restaurant business. Design/Method/Approach: A theoretical generalization, logical-critical and economic-mathematical analysis patterns of functioning of a business as an economic system, based on systemic, process and target methodological approaches. Findings: The regularities of the business operating as an economic system are investigated. The system, target and process approaches to managing a business entity by developing a methodology related to the target functions formation of the individual subsystems and processes that make up the business activity are studied to identify patterns of their interaction and achieve an integrated result with the greatest efficiency. A structural-logical model of the control system is formed under the influence of disturbing environmental factors based on the objective functions and established vectors of sustainable economic development of the hotel and restaurant business, taking into account monitoring of its performance. Practical implications: The research results allow formulating the target management system for the sustainable economic development of the hotel and restaurant businesses based on monitoring costs as elements of the resources consumed, and effectively get adapted to environmental changes through integration of engineering, technology, economics, planning and management methods. Originality/Value: There was proposed a method for the system formation for managing sustainable economic development of a hotel and restaurant business based on cost monitoring, which, unlike existing ones, based on a set of system, process and target approaches and enables by differentiation processes occurring within the business and establishing patterns of their functional links with indicators of resource costs, provide forecasting and planning of performance. Research limitations/Future research: These researches are the basis for the subsequent evaluation and prediction of the of the operation efficiency, optimize resource costs of production and commercial activities of business entities, to create a mechanism for sustainable development of businesses. Paper type: theoretical.
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47. Private Equity Monitor 2018: Die aktuelle Tätigkeit von Finanzinvestoren in Deutschland
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Scheuplein, Christoph and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
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Economics ,Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations ,job security ,tax evasion ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Eigenkapital ,Federal Republic of Germany ,Sociology & anthropology ,Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen ,equity ,ddc:330 ,internationale Kapitalbewegung ,Kapitalbeteiligung ,equity participation ,Investition ,Steuerflucht ,workers' representation ,Wirtschaft ,investment ,Unternehmensübernahme ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,Private Equity ,Finanzinvestoren ,Fonds ,Offshore ,Steueroase ,Arbeitsplatzsicherung ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,Soziologie, Anthropologie ,international capital movement ,ddc:301 ,Arbeitnehmervertretung ,company takeover - Abstract
Der von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung herausgegebene "Private Equity Monitor" berichtet jährlich über die Aktivitäten von Private-Equity-Gesellschaften in Deutschland. Im Jahr 2017 wurden 274 Unternehmen übernommen, d.h. rund 30% mehr als im Jahr zuvor. Dies betraf vermehrt kleinere und mittlere Unternehmen, so dass die Zahl der Beschäftigten auf 93.200 gesunken ist (minus 13% gegenüber dem Vorjahr). Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Typen von Private Equity-Gesellschaften tätig waren und welche Eigentümer die Unternehmen nach dem Ausstieg des Finanzinvestors erhielten. Ebenso werden die von den Finanzinvestoren gesteuerten Fonds näher untersucht, z.B. ihre jährliche Renditen und ihre überwiegende Anmeldung in "Steueroasen". Erstmals wird die Vermeidung bzw. Ignorierung der Mitbestimmung in den Unternehmen mit mehr als 2.000 Beschäftigten näher betrachtet und es wird ein Ranking der beschäftigungsstärksten Buyouts in Deutschland eingeführt.
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48. Private-Equity-Investitionen im Pflegesektor: Relevanz, Dimensionen und Handlungserfordernisse
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Evans, Michaela, Scheuplein, Christoph, and Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT)
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Economics ,equity participation ,Investition ,nursing care for the elderly ,caregiving ,Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen ,Eigenkapital ,Wirtschaft ,Economic Sectors ,investment ,Federal Republic of Germany ,Wirtschaftssektoren ,Unternehmensübernahme ,Altenpflege ,Bundesrepublik Deutschland ,equity ,Financial Planning, Accountancy ,ddc:330 ,Pflege ,company takeover ,Kapitalbeteiligung ,Private Equity ,Finanzinvestoren ,Gesundheitssektor - Abstract
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Private Equity-Übernahmen im deutschen Pflegesektor in den Jahren 2013 bis 2018. Die Übernahmen werden in die Umbrüche des Pflegemarktes eingeordnet und Charakteristika der übernommenen Unternehmern sowie der jeweiligen Private Equity-Gesellschaften aufgezeigt.
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49. Rechnungslegung im Spannungsfeld zwischen staatlicher Gesetzgebung und privatrechtlichem Standardsetting: Risiko- und Prognosepublizität im deutschen Konzernlagebericht
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Velte, Patrick, Stiglbauer, Markus, Velte, Patrick, and Stiglbauer, Markus
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Vor dem Hintergrund des durch die Finanzkrise gesunkenen Vertrauens der Öffentlichkeit in die Qualität prospektiver Unternehmensinformationen behandelt der vorliegende Beitrag den Stand und die Entwicklung der Risiko- und Prognoseberichterstattung im handelsrechtlichen Konzernlagebericht. Die Konkretisierung des Handelsrechts durch privatrechtliche Deutsche Rechnungslegungsstandards (DRS) führt zu divergierenden Regulierungsebenen, welche einen negativen Einfluss auf die Qualität der Risiko- und Prognosepublizität haben. Der Betrag würdigt zunächst die normativen, gesetzlichen Entwicklungsstufen der Risiko- und Prognoseberichterstattung sowie Reformen des Deutschen Rechnungslegungs Standards Committee (DRSC). Dem schließt sich eine Analyse bisheriger empirischer Ergebnisse zur Güte der Risiko- und Prognoseberichte bei deutschen, börsennotierten Gesellschaften an. Überdies werden potenzielle Risiken mangelnder Qualität von Risiko- und Prognoseberichten aus Sicht der externen Abschlussprüfung reflektiert, denen im Rahmen der Regulierungsentwürfe der EUKommission vom 30.11.2011 besondere Bedeutung zukommt. Es zeigt sich am deutschen Kapitalmarkt eine mehrheitliche Nichtbeachtung zentraler Inhalte der DRS 5 und 15 zur Risiko- und Prognoseberichterstattung und flankierend ein erhöhtes Prüfungsrisiko auf Seiten des Abschlussprüfers. Dies beeinträchtigt die Aussagekraft der Berichte wesentlich. Während existierendes Hard-Law zur Risiko- und Prognoseberichterstattung durch Auslegungsspielräume bislang kein ausreichendes Regulativ bildet und es dem flankierenden Soft-Law an Durchsetzungskraft fehlt, gilt es für den deutschen Gesetzgeber, diese Lücke durch eine weitergehende Konkretisierung des § 315 HGB zu schließen. Anregungen hierfür lassen sich nur bedingt im Management Commentary des International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) finden. Die Zielsetzung des DRSC, durch die Reform der Berichtsstandards (DRS 20) die Qualität der Risiko- und Prognoseberichte zu erhöhen, bl, The recent financial crisis undermined the trust in prospective company information. Therefore this paper discusses the state and development of the risk and forecast reporting as part of the consolidated management report. Our analysis shows that a constellation where company law has been concretized by private law (German Accounting Standards, GAS) leads to different layers of regulation which negatively influence the quality of the risk and forecast reporting on the German capital market. Starting with the normative, legal stages of development of the risk and forecast reporting as well as with the reform by the German Accounting Standards Committee (GASC) we continue with a state of the art analysis of empirical findings on the quality of the risk and forecast reporting of German listed companies. Furthermore, we discuss risks of low quality risk and forecast reporting from the perspective of external auditing, which are highly important within the draft regulation of the European Commission (EC) from 30th November 2011. A majority of companies don’t follow central norms of the GAS 5 and GAS 15 concerning risk and prospective reporting. Additionally, we notice an increasing audit risk for the external auditor, limiting the significance of the current risk and prospective reporting. Since the existing hard-law concerning risk and prospective reporting cannot guarantee sufficient regulatory power due to limited scope for interpretation and the additional soft-law doesn't have enough strength of purpose so far there is great need for action of the German legislator to improve this situation by a more concrete form of risk and forecast reporting in § 315 HGB; among others the German legislator might find examples in other legal systems like the Management Commentary by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to carry out the risk and prospective reporting. We remain skeptical, whether the objective of the DRSC to raise the quality of risk and forecast re
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50. Company Builder: innovatives Risikokapital als Motor des Beschäftigungswachstums
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Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), Scheuplein, Christoph, Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT), and Scheuplein, Christoph
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In den vergangenen ca. 15 Jahren haben sich neue Formen der Risikokapitalfinanzierung gebildet, die das Gründen von Unternehmen zu einem eigenen Geschäftsfeld gemacht haben. Die sogenannten "Company Builder" bringen eigene Gründungsideen auf den Weg und unterstützen die Startups langfristig. Der Aufsatz beschreibt die Eigenschaften der Company Builder und zeigt im Vergleich zu anderen Formen von Risikokapital ihre Wirkung auf die Beschäftigtendynamik in den geförderten Unternehmen.
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