Publications des institutions partenaires
Detecting nestedness in graphs
Many real-world networks have a nested structure. Examples range from biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), industry systems (e.g. New York garment industry) to inter-bank networks (e.g. Fedwire bank network). A nested network has a graph topology such that a vertex’s neighborhood contains the neighborhood of vertices of lower degree. Thus, the adjacency matrix is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Coping with migration-induced urban growth: addressing the blind spot of UN habitat
The demography of cities in the 21st century will be shaped, to a large extent, by migration. This paper argues that the rights-based approach to urban policy advocated in the preparatory work of Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to be held in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, may not be conducive to this goal. The approach lacks a contextual...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/08/2016
When corporatism leads to corporate governance failure : the case of Swiss watch industry
Corporatism is often seen as the way Swiss stakeholders in business and politics handle industrial challenges in a reasonable and flexible way. The following publication argues, however, that the emergence of corporatist structures in the Swiss watch industry has often encouraged rent-seeking and collusion at the expense of the creation of new markets through innovation. This legacy...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/06/2016
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
Lipschitz and Hölder stability of optimization problems and generalized equations
This paper studies stability aspects of solutions of parametric mathematical programs and generalized equations, respectively, with disjunctive constraints. We present sufficient conditions that, under some constraint qualifications ensuring metric subregularity of the constraint mapping, continuity results of upper Lipschitz and upper Hölder type, respectively, hold. Furthermore, we...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Human resource management and radical innovation: a fuzzy-set QCA of US multinationals in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK
This paper explores, based on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, configurations of key human resource management practices that explain radical innovation in subsidiaries. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is conducted with data for 69 subsidiaries of US-based MNEs in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Contrary to the implications of the varieties-of-capitalism...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Effectiveness of Social Media Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Key Performance Drivers
Despite the fact that most companies have embraced social media as part of the mar-keting mix, there still remains a significant lack of knowledge as to what drives com-munication effectiveness in this new kind of peer-to-peer environment where tradi-tional, well-settled marketing communication paradigms like domination and control do show their limits. Accordingly, corporate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Stochastic Integrated Assessment of Ecosystem Tipping Risk
One of the major potential consequences of climate change is damage to earth’s ecosystems, damage which could manifest itself in the form of tipping risks. We establish an economic growth model of ecosystem tipping risks, set in the context of possible forest dieback. We consider different specifications of impacts arising from the forest dieback tipping point, specifications such as...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Business statesman or shareholder advocate? CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro-foundations of Political CSR
In this article we pursue two objectives. First, we refine the concept of responsible leadership from an upper echelon perspective by exploring two distinct styles (instrumental and integrative) and thereby further developing the understanding of the newly emerging integrative style. Second, we propose a framework that examines the micro-foundations of political corporate social...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A systematic review and conceptual analysis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Decomposing the effects of online customer reviews on brand, price, and product attributes
Online customer reviews (OCRs) have become a major source of information for customers in the Internet. Understanding the impact of OCRs on customers' decisions is an important challenge for academics and practitioners. We apply a choice-based conjoint experiment that combines all relevant levels of the OCR dimensions (valence, volume, and variance) and that estimates the effect...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The interplay of human resource management and job boredom: a behavioural perspective
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
Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment
In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2015
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
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