Publications des institutions partenaires
Reverse educational spillovers at the firm level
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2017
Job security as a threatened resource: Reactions to job insecurity in culturally distinct regions
As downsizing and restructuring have become global phenomena, the impact of job insecurity on employee attitudes has received significant attention. However, research examining the role of cultural dimensions has been largely unexplored. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we investigated whether the relationships between both quantitative job insecurity (i.e. the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
When a door closes, a window opens? Long-term labor market effects of involuntary separations
This study estimates the earning losses of workers experiencing an involuntary job separation. We employ, for the first time in the earning losses literature, a Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood estimator with fixed effects that has several advantages with respect to conventional fixed effects models. The Poisson estimator allows considering the full set of involuntary separations,…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Integrating QCA and HLM for Multilevel Research on Organizational Configurations
Mixed methods systematically combine multiple research approaches—either in basic parallel, sequential, or conversion designs or in more complex multilevel or integrated designs. Multilevel mixed designs are among the most valuable and dynamic. Yet current multilevel designs, which are rare in the mixed methods literature, do not strongly integrate qualitative and quantitative…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Detecting nestedness in graphs
Many real-world networks have a nested structure. Examples range from biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), industry systems (e.g. New York garment industry) to inter-bank networks (e.g. Fedwire bank network). A nested network has a graph topology such that a vertex’s neighborhood contains the neighborhood of vertices of lower degree. Thus, the adjacency matrix is…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Lipschitz and Hölder stability of optimization problems and generalized equations
This paper studies stability aspects of solutions of parametric mathematical programs and generalized equations, respectively, with disjunctive constraints. We present sufficient conditions that, under some constraint qualifications ensuring metric subregularity of the constraint mapping, continuity results of upper Lipschitz and upper Hölder type, respectively, hold. Furthermore, we…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Human resource management and radical innovation: a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK
This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Effectiveness of Social Media Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Key Performance Drivers
Despite the fact that most companies have embraced social media as part of the mar-keting mix, there still remains a significant lack of knowledge as to what drives com-munication effectiveness in this new kind of peer-to-peer environment where tradi-tional, well-settled marketing communication paradigms like domination and control do show their limits. Accordingly, corporate…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Stochastic Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Tipping Risk
One of the major potential consequences of climate change is damage to earth’s ecosystems, damage which could manifest itself in the form of tipping risks. We establish an economic growth model of ecosystem tipping risks, set in the context of possible forest dieback. We consider different specifications of impacts arising from the forest dieback tipping point, specifications such as…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Business statesman or shareholder advocate? CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro-foundations of Political CSR
In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further developing the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Decomposing the effects of online customer reviews on brand, price, and product attributes
Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers in the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers' decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant levels of the OCR dimensions (valence, volume, and variance) and that estimates the effect…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The interplay of human resource management and job boredom: a behavioural perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment
In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2015
Qualifying “fit”: the performance dynamics of firms’ change tracks through organizational configurations
Organizational configurations, sets of firms with similarities in a number of essential characteristics, provide important insights into the synergies inherent to certain combinations of structural attributes and the performance effects of firms’ retention of, adaptation to, or decoupling from high-performing configurations. The fundamental assumption is that the better a firm’s “fit…
Institution partenaire
English / 15/07/2015
Book review: Implicit Functions and Solution Mappings:A View from Variational Analysis. Second Edition. By A. L. Dontchev and R. T. Rockafellar. Springer, New York, 2014
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Effort provision in entrepreneurial teams - effects of team size, free-riding and peer pressure
This paper analyzes whether effort provision in entrepreneurial teams depends on the size of the team, assuming that size determines the strength of free-riding and peer pressure effects in entrepreneurial teams. We provide a theoretical model and empirical analyses to explain the joint effect of free-riding and peer pressure on effort in start-up teams. We begin with an economic…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
The impact of skills, working time allocation and peer effects on the entrepreneurial intentions of scientists
Little is currently known about the effects of skill composition on academic entrepreneurship. Therefore, in this paper, following Lazear’s (J Labor Econ 23(4):649–680, 2005) jack-of-all-trades approach, we study how the composition of a scientist’s skills affects his or her intention to become an entrepreneur. Extending Lazear, we examine how the effect of balanced skills is…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Does the director election system matter? Evidence from majority voting
We examine the effect of a change in the director election system—the switch from a plurality voting standard to a more stringent standard known as majority voting (MV). Using a regression discontinuity design, we document abnormal returns of 1.43–1.60 % around annual meeting dates where shareholder proposals to adopt MV are voted upon, suggesting that shareholders perceive the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
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