Information Processing

Kristian Dicke

The Processing and Pricing of Macroeconomic Information in Financial Markets

Finanzmanagement

How is macroeconomic information processed and priced in financial markets? This work is dedicated to the exploration of different aspects of the relationship between the macroeconomic state of an economy, information about this state, and the pricing of assets. The research question is addressed in three steps.

First, we explore the sensitivity of investors’ risk premium demands to macroeconomic risk. Specifically, we analyze the link between an economy’s […]

Sebastian Sprenger

How Does Enterprise Social Software Affect Intra-Organizational InformationProcessing?

Current Studies on German-Speaking Enterprises

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

Die Art und Weise, wie Menschen miteinander kommunizieren und Informationen austauschen, hat sich in den letzten Jahren grundlegend gewandelt. Einerseits erwarten sogenannte Wissensarbeiter, zeit- und ortsunabhängig auf ihre Ressourcen zugreifen zu können. Hierfür bietet der technologische Fortschritt die Möglichkeit, Kollegen, Arbeitsgruppen und die gesamte Belegschaft mit Hilfe von unternehmensweiten, sozialen Softwareanwendungen zu vernetzen. Auf der anderen Seite […]

Dirk Förster-Trallo

The Impact of Psychological Occupational Strains on Engineering Managers’ Decision Making Behaviour

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Due to the digitalisation of the working world and the intensified competition between organisations, the working environment of employees in technical working environments has changed in recent years. This applies in particular to executives in companies as they have been given greater responsibilities as a result. They are exposed to various stresses and strains.

Negative effects of stress on the health of individuals have been empirically proven in recent […]

Thomas Rachfall

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Information Overload Phenomenon

Schriften zum Betrieblichen Rechnungswesen und Controlling

Most people are working with the help of information and communication technology (ICT), with a still rising rate of workplaces being equipped with new technology. More and more people are presumed to act efficiently with new ICT and services in an environment that is getting more multifaceted for employees in the communication process. In response to the quickly changing environments, individuals and organisations are suffering from information overload (IO). However, in […]

Georg Bestelmeyer

Equity Markets and the Real Economy

Finanzmanagement

The author analyzes the influence of investors’ macroeconomic expectations on the U.S. equity market by focusing on three central issues: First, “Do investors’ equity risk premia expectations depend on overall business conditions? Hereby, the importance of economic conditions for doubtlessly one of the most essential value drivers of stock markets is tackled. The knowledge of how strong the real economic situation influences equity risk premia expectations and thus the […]

Alexandra Niessen

The Price Impact of Macroeconomic News on Capital Markets

Finanzmanagement

The core question of this book is how macroeconomic information impacts asset prices. Macroeconomic announcements are important for asset prices, because they provide information on current and future economic conditions. They are widely discussed by investors and extensively covered by the public press.

This book shows that a wide range of asset classes strongly reacts to the release of macroeconomic news. It consists of a theoretical part and an empirical […]

Javier Perez-Freije

Design of Organizational Controls for Managing Innovation

Implications for Firms in High-Velocity Environments

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Managing innovation is crucial for firm success in high-velocity environments. Although the primary emphasis of R&D professional literature has been on formalizing development activities, this book defines a control concept for the fuzzy front-end of the innovation process, which is characterized by higher levels of ambiguity and uncertainty that in turn diminish administrative information, or firms‘ knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships and outputs. [...]