infonet-economy

Prior management research has provided extensive evidence that members of an organization who identify with their organization tend to support its norms and objectives by displaying in- role or extra-role behavior. We argue that this account of observable employee behavior may be somewhat incomplete because hidden, secretive types of behavior have been largely overlooked in research…

Economic theory assumes that willingness to pay (WTP) increases with the quantity of the consumed good. This implies that there should be a scope effect in contingent valuation studies. However, in previous issues of Ecological Economics, several authors criticized the contingent valuation (CV) method for the absence of such effect or its inadequacy. In this paper, we contribute to…

Growing requirements for accountability and risk management put decentralized models of public governance under pressure. This article investigates the drivers for change from a completely decentralized, network-oriented model to a more centralized, and procedural governance model of school restaurants in a Swiss city. It focuses on the pressures and challenges that this municipality…

While business model innovations are critical to a company’s long-term survival, they are still poorly understood compared to other kinds of innovations. In this paper, we investigate prior research and reframe business model innovation through a practitioner lens. We report on a content analysis of interviews with CEOs of small and medium enterprises in the technology industry, with…

Internationalization speed currently receives once again substantial attention in the internationalization literature. Internationalization speed already formed an integral part of the incremental approach to internationalization 40 years ago. It received center stage position in the more recent born global and international new venture debate. However, there are new developments in…

This paper analyses how news-based scores in environmental CSR may have influence d the monthly stocks’ market return in UD and UK during the 2007–2014 period . By linear regression, we find that. Our models show a positive and significant relationship between the environmental score and the market performance. We also consistently measured the impact of environmental news-based…

Theoretically speaking knowledge sharing seems relevant for innovations in general. Yet, there is no adequate understanding of how knowledge sharing can develop green innovation in SMEs. This paper focuses on how internal and external knowledge sharing intercede green innovation and ponders on how it affects the organization performance. First, the empirical results show that all…

This paper empirically assesses how financial risk aversion reacts to a change in individuals’ wealth and health and to the introduction of both financial and health risks using the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Individuals in our sample exhibit financial risk aversion decreasing both in wealth and health. Financial risk aversion is also found to…