Publications des institutions partenaires
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
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
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
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
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
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
Advancing Educational Leadership Research Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Advancing Educational Leadership Research Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Practical relevance of practice-based research on strategy
In this chapter we review practice-based studies that have examined the ontological and epistemological conditions for producing strategy research that proves relevant to management practice. Drawing on these works, we argue that researchers inevitably adopt a scholastic point of view, which makes it impossible to capture directly the logic of strategy practice. However, scholars can…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Much ado about nothing? Sustainability disclosure in the banking industry
This paper examines the sustainability disclosure in the banking industry with respect to potential greenwashing. We build a theoretical framework to assess the sustainability disclosure along materiali-ty criteria in the banking industry and apply this framework to the corporate sustainability reporting of two global systemically important banks. The results of our case study point…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Dynamic Processes in Marketing – An Application of Multilevel Models to Assess Firm and Salesperson Performance Development
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Die neue politische Rolle von Unternehmen in einer globalisierten Welt. Ein kritischer Überblick über die internationale Forschungslandschaft
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Testing for measurement invariance by detecting local misspecification and an illustration across online and paper-and-pencil samples
Political scientists often need to evaluate whether samples are comparable,for example, when analysing different countries or time points or when comparing data collected using different methods. A necessary condition for conducting such meaningful cross-group comparisons is the establishment of measurement invariance. One of the most frequently used procedures for establishing…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Skill heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
We study how startup teams are assembled in terms of team member human capital characteristics. To this end, we derive a statistically motivated benchmark for new venture team heterogeneity in terms of observed team member characteristics to generate stylized facts about team member diversity at startup and how it evolves as the new venture matures. We use the population of Danish…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
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