Our current research focuses on the areas of ‘Management Control, Accounting and Finance’, ‘Industrial Marketing, Purchasing and Supply Management,’, ‘Human Resource Management and Industrial Sociology’. The main research objective is to improve the understanding of complex operational processes in technology-driven firms and to take a holistic view of companies in gerneral that offer technological goods and services in industrial markets in order to improve their competitiveness and performance and to safeguard them for the future.