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Online price comparison sites (shopbots) like PriceGrabber.com are the most powerful tools for consumers to easily compare prices and find offers for desired products. Besides providing distributions of actual prices in price comparison tables, shopbots like NexTag.com have recently introduced price charts (line charts) displaying a product's full price history. Price charts…

Verlagstext (http://www.nzz-libro.ch): Begrenzte Reserven und der wachsende Energiehunger aufstrebender Volkswirtschaften schaffen Unsicherheiten über die künftige Energieversorgung. Energie ist nicht mehr nur im Fokus der Wirtschafts- und Klimapolitik, sondern auch der Sicherheits- und Aussenpolitik. Dennoch oder gerade deshalb fehlt es in der…

Organization theory and business ethics are essentially the positive and normative sides of the very same coin, reflecting on how human cooperative activities are organized
and how they ought to be organized respectively. It is therefore unfortunate that—due to the relatively impermeable manmade boundaries segregating the corresponding scholarly communities into separate…

Reversing the original signaling model, this study explains how employers signal the non-observable quality of their workplace and thereby reduce labor shortages. Based on a company data set of 204 German firms, the authors find, as predicted by their theory, that the existence of a works council, an apprenticeship training program, and a high-quality incumbent workforce…