Volker H. Hoffmann


Last Name

Hoffmann

First Name

Volker H.

ORCID

0000-0001-5519-7347

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03695 - Hoffmann, Volker / Hoffmann, Volker

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  • Strategizing in an Unpredictable Climate: Exploring Corporate Strategies to Cope with Regulatory Uncertainty
    Item type: Journal Article
    Engau, Christian; Hoffmann, Volker H. (2011)
    Long Range Planning
    Government regulation of business activities is increasing rapidly, exposing firms to considerable uncertainty and requiring managers to decide on appropriate strategic postures. To help managers make informed decisions, this study compiles a comprehensive overview of strategies to cope with regulatory uncertainty and illustrates their interdependencies and how they can be combined into overall coping postures, as well as offering management guidelines on deciding which to adopt. A literature review identifies a considerable variety of coping strategies, and we apply unique data from a worldwide cross-industry survey to categorize each into one of three types – offensive, defensive or passive. We find that firms aiming to cope with the uncertainty associated with post-Kyoto regulation typically adopt one of four strategic postures, each characterized by a specific combination of these types: ‘daredevils’ rely solely on offensive strategies; ‘coordinators’ combine them with defensive ones, ‘hedgers’ pursue strategies from all three categories while ‘gamblers’ choose not to specifically cope with uncertainty at all. We exemplify the strategies characteristic of each posture, and illustrate their interdependencies by means of case studies in the European airline industry. We identify two main factors managers should consider particularly when deciding on their firm’s strategic posture: the level of regulatory uncertainty they perceive and the firm’s exposure to future regulations, and find that the higher the level of uncertainty, the broader the range of strategies applied, and the more future regulation seems likely to affect a firm, the more actively it seeks to cope with the associated uncertainty.
  • Do deployment policies reduce technological diversity
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Huenteler, Joern; Ossenbrink, Jan; Schmidt, T.S.; et al. (2013)
  • Delineating policy mixes: Contrasting top-down and bottom-up approaches to the case of energy-storage policy in California
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ossenbrink, Jan; Finnsson, Sveinbjoern; Bening, Catharina R.; et al. (2019)
    Research Policy
  • The role of inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers in technological innovations: The case of lithium-ion batteries
    Item type: Journal Article
    Stephan, Annegret; Bening, Catharina R.; Schmidt, Tobias; et al. (2019)
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change
    Innovation is critical for economic growth and addressing societal and environmental problems. Therefore, many policy interventions aim to accelerate and redirect technological change. Most modern technologies have value chains spanning multiple sectors, and thus are likely to require cross-sectoral knowledge spillovers. However, knowledge spillovers between sectors in a technology's value chain have hardly been analyzed. We analyze the role of the sectoral diversity and sectoral distance of knowledge for subsequent knowledge generation within one specific technology. More specifically, we investigate how the sectoral diversity and distance of prior knowledge affect the technological importance, sectoral diversity, and sectoral distance of subsequent knowledge. Our regression analyses of global patent data of lithium-ion batteries show that (1) higher sectoral diversity increases the importance of newly created knowledge, whereas higher sectoral distance does not significantly increase the importance of newly created knowledge; (2) both higher sectoral diversity and distance of prior knowledge increase the sectoral diversity of subsequent knowledge; and (3) higher sectoral distance of prior knowledge increases the sectoral distance of subsequent knowledge, whereas higher sectoral diversity of prior knowledge does not significantly increase the distance of subsequent knowledge. We discuss our findings and derive implications for research, R&D managers and policymakers.
  • Market-based environmental policies
    Item type: Conference Paper
    Schneider, Malte; Rogge, Karoline; Hoffmann, Volker H. (2011)
  • Regulatory Uncertainty
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hoffmann, Volker H.; Trautmann, Thomas; Hamprecht, Jens (2009)
    Journal of Management Studies
  • Erratum to “The innovation impact of the EU Emission Trading System — Findings of company case studies in the German power sector” [Ecol. Econ. 70 (3) (2011) 513–523]
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Rogge, Karoline S.; Schneider, Malte; Hoffmann, Volker H. (2012)
    Ecological Economics
  • Corporate responses to climate change and financial performance: the impact of climat policy
    Item type: Working Paper
    Ziegler, Andreas; Busch, Timo; Hoffmann, Volker H. (2009)
    Economics Working Paper Series
  • Three types of impact from the European Emission Trading Scheme
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Hoffmann, Volker H.; Trautmann, Thomas (2008)
    Economics and management of climate change : risks, mitigation and adaptation
  • How do different process options and evaluation settings affect economic and environmental assessments?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Sugiyama, Hirokazu; Fischer, Ulrich; Antonijuan, Elena; et al. (2009)
    Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Part B, Process safety and environmental protection
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