Publications des institutions partenaires
Review of "Karl H. Borch: Economics of Insurance"
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1991
Construing Organizational Texture in Young Entrepreneurial Firms
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/1990
The Organizing of Young Technological Firms: Creating and Integrating
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1990
Embodiments of Organizational Fitness. The Viable System Model (VSM) as a Guide
Managers are facing new problems in their quest for organizational fitness. With environments of growing complexity, foresight, adaptability, and learning become critical features for a social system to survive and develop. Established models of organizational control are insufficient to cope with this proliferating complexity. The science of cybernetics provides powerful models to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1990
Strategic Management in Tourism
This contribution applies the latest theory of business strategy to
the specific requirements of the tourist sector. The article an
alyzes the principal purpose of strategic management -
the development and the enhancement of sustained earnings poten
tials, as the prerequisite of long-term business success. Further,
it identifies the determinants of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1989
Profit-Sharing Arrangements in a Team and the Cost of Information
The LEN-Model (referring to "linear functions", "exponential utility" and "normal distribution" as major properties of the LEN-Model) allows to study profit-sharing agreements in a team of principal and agent. First, this article describes and analyses the LEN-Model again (which was originally presented in 1987 by the same author). Second, agency costs...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/1988
Six "commandments" for successful futures studies for corporate planning
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1984
Transparency in Parliamentary Voting
We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Upper House (Council of States) had voted by a show of hands. While publicly observable at the time of the vote, legislators' decisions could only be verified ex post through the time-consuming...
Institution partenaire
Endogenous Growth, Semi-endogenous Growth... or Both? A Simple Hybrid Model
First generation endogenous growth models had the counterfactual implication that the long-term growth of per-capita GDP increased with the population size. Two influential growth paradigms, the semi-endogenous and the second generation fully endogenous, eliminated this strong scale effect. Both solutions have useful aspects and
insights, but very different policy implications...
Institution partenaire
The Imbalanced Catch-up to Rational Expectations: Capital Flows during Convergence
How long shall a country take to learn the world technological frontier? What would happen if that country found the same difficulties in learning the true model of its economy? After all, countries catching up often experience life-changing transformations during the catch-up to a balanced growth path. We show that an open economy, learning rational expectations alongside foreign...
Institution partenaire
Immigration, Real Estate Prices and the Consumption Decision of Native Households
Since house prices govern the consumption decisions of renters and owners alike, changing house prices can have far-reaching macroeconomic consequences. We analyze how the disposable income and consumption decisions of households are affected by exogenous house price changes in Switzerland. We look at consumption of both housing and nondurable goods to establish a comprehensive...
Institution partenaire
Win-win and no-win situations in supply chain finance: The case of accounts receivable programs
The paper aims to investigate whether supply chain finance (SCF) solutions have the potential to create tripartite value in the international trade arena. Distinguishing three actors, this value proposition is examined by modeling an accounts receivable platform (ARP) program. The setting is adapted to a supply chain with an OECD supplier and non-OECD buyers. The paper identifies...
Institution partenaire
Governance Structure and the Credibility Gap: Experimental Evidence on Family Businesses’ Sustainability Reporting
This paper examines the success of corporate communication in voluntary sustainability reporting. Existing studies have focused on the perspective of the communicators but lack an understanding of the perspective of information recipients to clearly evaluate this interactive communication process. This paper looks at the issue of a credibility gap perceived by external stakeholders...
Institution partenaire
Work-related Social Support Modulates Effects of Early Life Stress on Limbic Reactivity during Stress
Early life stress (ELS) affects stress- reactivity via limbic brain regions implicated such as hippocampus and amygdala. Social support is a major protective factor against ELS effects, while subjects with ELS experience reportedly perceive less of it in their daily life. The workplace, where most adults spend a substantial amount of time in their daily lives, might serve as a major...
Institution partenaire
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