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Reference price formation for product innovations: the role of consistent price-value-relationships
When deciding between product alternatives, consumers have to compare the observed prices to their internal reference price to determine whether the offer is a good deal or not. For product innovations, for which no reference price has been established, it is unclear against which standard the observed price is compared. Despite extensive research on the use of reference prices,…
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2016
The role of biotechnology in combating climate change: A question of politics?
Biotechnology is a platform technology that may significantly contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet biotechnology is hardly ever referred to as a ‘clean technology’. This paper investigates why biotechnology tends to be ignored in this context. A global stakeholder survey on biotechnology and climate change was conducted with 55 representatives of 44…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2016
Forget "Unlearning": How an empirically unwarranted concept was allegedly imported from psychology to flourish in management and organisation studies
We provide a critique of the development in organisation studies of the idea of ‘unlearning’ as allegedly imported from the psychology literature by Hedberg and understood to mean the manageable discard of knowledge precedent to and aiding later learning. We re-review the psychology literature and in contrast to Hedberg, find that this definition of unlearning is not empirically…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Special Issue: A contextual and dynamic understanding of sustainable urbanisation
By 2030, sixty percent of the world’s population is projected to live in cities. The majority of this growth in urban areas is expected to occur in cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The transition from rural to urban life styles is likely to increase household consumption and will require massive investments in urban infrastructure.
How will society cope with this…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Agricultural Biotechnology and Public Attitudes: An Attempt to Explain the Mismath between Experience and Perception
The main barriers to maximize the benefits and minimize the risk of modern agricultural biotechnology for society and the environment are not technical but regulatory in nature. Preventive regulation of agricultural biotechnology must be understood as a policy response to public rather than scientific concerns about the development and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2015
On the construction of common size, value and momentum factors in international stock markets: A guide with applications
A major obstacle for research in international asset pricing and corporate finance has been a lack of reliable and publicly available data on international common risk factors and portfolios. To address this gap, we provide a step-by-step description of how appropriately screened data from Thomson Reuters Datastream and Thomson Reuters Worldscope can be used to construct high-quality…
Institution partenaire
English / 27/08/2015
The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services : From Regulation to Innovation
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/08/2015
Entrepreneurial rights as human rights : Why economic rights must include the human right to science and the freedom to grow through innovation
The contemporary human rights debate is mostly concerned with the protection of people affected by change that is beyond their control. But what about those who make use of their basic economic rights to facilitate economic and social change? Do these agents of change need protection and, if so, how do their activities relate to the current debate on human rights?
In this book…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Sustainability and risk Combining Monte Carlo simulation and DCF for Swiss residential buildings
Purpose – This paper aims to identify the relative contribution of sustainability criteria to property value risk. Design/methodology/approach – Adiscounted cash flow (DCF) model is used to assess the effect of a given set of 42 sustainability sub-indicators on property value. The anticipated demand for each sustainability sub-indicator is described by four future states of nature.…
Institution partenaire
English / 13/05/2015
Making agricultural innovation systems (AIS) work for development in tropical countries
Agricultural innovation in low-income tropical countries ontributes to a more effective and sustainable use of natural resources and reduces hunger and poverty through economic development in rural areas. Yet, despite numerous recent public and private initiatives to develop capacities for agricultural innovation, such in itiatives are often not well aligned with national efforts…
Institution partenaire
English / 13/01/2015
Corporate governance in a risk society
Under conditions of growing interconnected- ness of the global economy, more and more stakeholders are exposed to risks and costs resulting from business activities that are neither regulated nor compensated for by means of national governance. The changing distribution of risks poses a threat to the legitimacy of business firms that normally derive their legitimacy from operating in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Consumer judgment of explicit and implied health claims on foods: Misguided but not misled
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Socially responsible investing and stock performance: New empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets
This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It contributes to the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets and by using consistent world-wide corporate sustainability performance data. Our portfolio analysis from 1998 to 2009 is based on the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2014
Embracing ambiguity – lessons from the study of corporate social responsibility throughout the rise and decline of the modern welfare state
In the work of Karl Polanyi, the negative effects of a self-regulating market economy are described as being limited by societal forces such as the policies of the welfare state. With the decline of the modern welfare state since the late 1970s, social activities of business firms are increasingly regarded as an important complement to or even as a substitute for welfare state…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2014
The principle of common concern and climate change
Effective policies combating global warming and incentivising reduction of greenhouse gases face fundamental collective action problems. States defending short term interests avoid international commitments and seek to benefit from measures combating global warming taken elsewhere. The paper explores the potential of Common Concern as an emerging principle of international law, in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2014
The motivation and impact of organized public resistance against agricultural biotechnology
Fifteen years of experience with the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) corps and countless national and international risk assessments of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) suggest that the risks related to this new technology are not any different from those already known in conventional agriculture. Despite these reassuring findings, public distrust toward GMOs…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/03/2014
The influence of pension funds on corporate governance
Although pension funds have gained importance in the last two decades, their role has not been described in detail by economic models. This article focuses on the scope of these institutional investors when they are not satisfied with a management team of a company in which the pension fund holds a block of shares. Stock holdings by pension funds are largely dispersed. Therefore, any…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/03/2014
The great misunderstanding of the global food crisis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2014
Shifting Blances of Power and New Forms of Corporate Control - Three Essays on Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Governance in a Globalized Economy
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2014
Private provision of public goods and asset prices
In capitalist societies it is the role of the state to establish the preconditions that promote societal well-being through proper functioning markets.
On the other hand enterprises have a right to provide goods and services in return for private profit. This sharp contrast between government and corporate responsibilities is created by a theoretical idealized first-best world…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2014
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