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Coping with complexity is at the heart of management and leadership in the turbulent environments faced by the organizations and societies of our day. The systems approach provides transdisciplinary theories and tools for dealing with this challenge more effectively than efforts merely based on disciplinary insights or pragmatic recipes. In this paper, a concept of "intelligent...

The paper analyzes the economic structure of rat races, which either emerge in signaling (as a means of handling informational problems in labor markets) or in genuine tournaments. The unifying element of such contests is a rank-order reward structure. The pervasive phenomenon that contestants compete with too much effort or wasteful investments, cannot be explained in a satisfying...

Schriften und Materialien zu Handwerk und Mittelstand: Heft 8
Gründungspotenzial und Gründungsengagement im Spiegel des Sozioökonomischen Panels
von Heiko Bergmann
Essen 2000, 90 S., 10,- Euro, ISBN 3-928739-63-8

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