Christoph Meyer – författare

This book develops a new framework for conducting postmortems guided by a normative model of anticipatory foreign policy. It is the first assessment of the performance of three leading European polities in providing estimative intelligence during an era of surprise. The comparative analysis focuses on how the UK, the EU and Germany handled three cases of major surprises: the Arab uprisings, the rise to power of the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Russian annexation of Crimea. It considers government intelligence assessments, diplomatic reporting and expert open sources, and how organisational leaders received these assessments. The book tests and develops new theories about the causes of strategic surprises, going beyond a common focus on intelligence versus policy failures to identify challenges and factors that cut across analyst and decision-maker communities. Drawing on insights and chapters provided by former senior officials, the book identifies lessons to learn from European polities to better anticipate and prepare for future surprises.

This book provides the first assessment of the performance of three leading European polities in providing estimative intelligence during an era of surprise. It develops a new framework for conducting postmortems guided by a normative model of anticipatory foreign policy. The comparative analysis focuses on how the UK, the EU and Germany handled three cases of major surprises: the Arab uprisings, the rise to power of the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Russian annexation of Crimea. It considers not just government intelligence assessments, but also diplomatic reporting and expert open sources and how these assessments were received by organisational leaders. The book tests and develops new theories about the causes of strategic surprises, going beyond a common focus on intelligence versus policy failures to identify challenges and factors that cut across both communities. With the help of former senior officials, the book identifies lessons yet to be learnt by European polities to better anticipate and prepare for future surprises.

Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (Finance), course: Corporate Finance, language: English, abstract: Theoretical and empirical research has indicated that overconfidence affects merger decision-making and merger premium. However, founder-CEOs have not been subject of such a study, yet. This lack is particular surprising when considering the differences between founder and manager-CEOs as well as the media attention of founder-CEOs. The present dissertation aims to fill the research gap through investigating the effect of founder-CEO overconfidence on merger premium in the high-tech industry. Moreover, this dissertation aims to extend the literature by including target CEO overconfidence and studying the impact on merger premium when both, acquirer and target CEO are overconfident. By studying founder-CEOs this dissertation also aims to establish the effectiveness of founders as CEOs. The resource-based perspective argues that while founders help in the early years of the company, they become less effective as the firm evolves, since they lack the necessary management skills. Design/methodology/approach Using ordinary least square (OLS) technique, this study investigates the effects of implemented factors in determining the merger premium paid in high-tech acquisitions. A sample consisting of 245 acquisitions in the high-tech industry of 124 CEOs during a 19-year period (1995 to 2013) has been observed. In order to test the founder-CEO effects, this dissertation develops a matched sample approach of 62 founder-CEOs and 62 manager-CEOs. This study shows a strong relationship between CEO overconfidence and acquisitions premium paid. The results suggest that the CEO overconfidence may provide an explanation for the well-rehearsed overpayment problem. An additional analysis indicates that the highest premium is paid when combined acquiring and tar-get firm CEO overconfidence exist. The dissertation also shows that founder-CEOs pay higher premia than manager-CEOs in the high-tech industry. It has been proven that founder-CEOs decisions are more independent from interventions of the board of directors and that founder-CEO overpayment is not dependent on the company s size or relatedness of mergers. The findings are reliable as the results remain constant for applied robustness tests.

Eisenhüttenschlacken können als wesentliche Kuppelprodukte der Eisen- und Stahlerzeugung durch verschiedene Recyclingalternativen zur Herstellung einer Vielzahl von Sekundärrohstoffen eingesetzt werden. Christoph Meyer konzipiert einen neuartigen Planungsansatz, der das betriebswirtschaftlich optimale Recycling von Eisenhüttenschlacken unter Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen technischen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Rahmenbedingungen ermöglicht. Das entwickelte Entscheidungsmodell verbindet die Vorteile verfahrenstechnischer Flowsheet-Simulationen mit einer betriebswirtschaftlichen Aktivitätsanalyse und wird im Rahmen einer praxisnahen Fallstudie angewendet.

Eisenhüttenschlacken können als wesentliche Kuppelprodukte der Eisen- und Stahlerzeugung durch verschiedene Recyclingalternativen zur Herstellung einer Vielzahl von Sekundärrohstoffen eingesetzt werden. Christoph Meyer konzipiert einen neuartigen Planungsansatz, der das betriebswirtschaftlich optimale Recycling von Eisenhüttenschlacken unter Berücksichtigung der einschlägigen technischen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Rahmenbedingungen ermöglicht. Das entwickelte Entscheidungsmodell verbindet die Vorteile verfahrenstechnischer Flowsheet-Simulationen mit einer betriebswirtschaftlichen Aktivitätsanalyse und wird im Rahmen einer praxisnahen Fallstudie angewendet.