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Towards a model of collective organizational identification: a longitudinal survey study

This paper develops a model of collective organizational identification for the work-unitlevel. Following Chen and colleagues’ (2004) procedure for validating collective constructs, we first describe the theoretical development process of a collective perception of organizational identification. In a second step, we extend our understanding of the theoretical construct by…

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English / 13/08/2008

The new political role of business in a globalized world: a call for a paradigm shift in CSR

Mainstream theorizing in management and economics is based on the assumption that business firms focus on profits only, while it is the task of the state system to provide public goods and to regulate the economy in such a way that business activities contribute to the common good. Business firms are conceived of as private actors and governments and their state agencies are…

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English / 13/08/2008

Towards a political conception of leadership responsibility

The paper is concerned with the concept of leadership responsibility. Responsible leadership understood as normatively appropriate conduct in the pursuit of the organizational goals addresses the challenges of nowadays’ leaders in the light of global transformation processes. The paper argues that existing schools of the leadership phenomenon, herein paradigmatically grouped as “…

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English / 12/07/2008

Globalization critics vs. free trade theory: ideological conflicts and the behaviour of MNEs

We discuss the ideological conflict between critics of globalization and free trade theorists who deconstruct the metanarrative of universal human rights that underlies the social agenda of the globalization critics. We point out the implications for the corporate objective function and the
social behaviour of multinational corporations. The ideological conflict has not yet…

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English / 03/07/2008

Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and…

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English / 01/01/2008

Monetary rewards and faculty behaviour: how economic incentives drive publish or perish

Higher education institutions are increasingly emulating research institutions and concentrate their financial rewards on research output (Melguizo/Strober 2007). We investigate whether faculty members strongly react to such financial rewards. We focus on monetary rewards originating from promotions. Based on economic theories we derive three hypotheses. We test them with data from…

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English / 01/01/2008

Internationalization School

Management literature has developed several theories that focus on the activities of business firms in foreign markets. The International School is an important part of this literature. This school of thought tries to explain the phenomenon of internationalization of production and trade (e.g., Hennart, 2001). The most important questions this school asks are: Why are firms leaving…

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English / 01/01/2008

Paradigms

A paradigm labels the basic assumptions about a researcher´s purpose, the character of the examined object (ontology), and the suitable methodology for examining the object. Therefore a paradigm gives the answer to the basic questions of the philosophy of science: (1) What is the purpose of research? and (2) By what means and methodologies can this purpose be achieved? Scherer…

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English / 01/01/2008

CEO appointments and the loss of firm-specific knowledge - Putting integrity back into hiring decisions

A rarely studied trend in corporate governance is the increasing tendency to fill CEO openings through external hires rather than through internal promotions: Kevin J. Murphy and Jan Zabojnik (2004) show that the proportion of outside hires has doubled and their pay premium almost quadrupled over the last thirty years. Assuming that general managerial skills are becoming more…

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English / 01/01/2008

Talking intervention: foreign policy frames and their conditional impact on individual attitudes

Given the rising importance of the global media and the relative unwillingness of democratic publics to accept casualties in war, decision makers have increasingly relied on the strategic dissemination of rhetoric in order to justify military engagements. They "talk intervention", that is, they justify foreign engagements in terms of an emerging global norm that finds the…

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English / 01/01/2007

An economic perspective on transfer pricing

This chapter reviews the recent economic literature on transfer pricing. As a starting point, we take Hirshleifer's transfer pricing model and discuss the basic structure of the most widely used model extensions. We review transfer pricing models with asymmetric information, transfer pricing models in incomplete contracting settings, strategic transfer pricing models, and…

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English / 01/01/2007

An economic perspective on transfer pricing

This chapter reviews the recent economic literature on transfer pricing. As a starting point, we take Hirshleifer's transfer pricing model and discuss the basic structure of the most widely used model extensions. We review transfer pricing models with asymmetric information, transfer pricing models in incomplete contracting settings, strategic transfer pricing models, and…

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English / 01/01/2007

An assortment-wide decision-support system for dynamic pricing and promotion planning in DIY retailing

The main objective of this report is to describe a decision-support system for dynamic retail pricing and pro-motion planning. Our weekly demand model incorporates price, reference price effects, seasonality, article availability information, features, and discounts. Building on previous research, we quantify demand interdependencies and integrate the resulting profit-lifting effects…

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English / 01/01/2007

An encompassing view on markdown pricing strategies: an analysis of the austrian mobile phone market

Fierce competition and rapid technological progress have considerably reduced the life cycle length for mobile phones in the last decade. Once a new mobile phone is launched, providers on the market under consideration practice a markdown strategy. Profits of the providers are generated mainly via the monthly (base plus variable) fees accruing during contract duration whereas the…

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English / 01/01/2007

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