In the past decade, technological advancements have led to changes in the economy with important implications for the strategic management of new ventures. In this paper, we argue that the dynamics of competition, success, and failure for new ventures have been significantly altered by the convergence of electronic technologies and the growing importance of knowledge-based assets. We proceed fr...

In old accounting tradition, non-life insurance companies have estimated nominal claims reserves for their outstanding loss liabilities. The new Solvency II developments require from non-life insurance companies that they go over to a market-consistent valuation of their insurance liabilities (full balance sheet approach) and that they prove solvency on a yearly basis. As a consequence non-life...