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Towards a political conception of leadership responsibility

The paper is concerned with the concept of leadership responsibility. Responsible leadership understood as normatively appropriate conduct in the pursuit of the organizational goals addresses the challenges of nowadays’ leaders in the light of global transformation processes. The paper argues that existing schools of the leadership phenomenon, herein paradigmatically grouped as “...

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English / 12/07/2008

Globalization critics vs. free trade theory: ideological conflicts and the behaviour of MNEs

We discuss the ideological conflict between critics of globalization and free trade theorists who deconstruct the metanarrative of universal human rights that underlies the social agenda of the globalization critics. We point out the implications for the corporate objective function and the
social behaviour of multinational corporations. The ideological conflict has not yet...

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English / 03/07/2008

The effect of CSR on stock performance: new evidence for the USA and Europe

This paper provides new empirical evidence for the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance. In contrast to former studies, we examine two different regions, namely the USA and Europe. Our econometric analysis shows that envi-ronmental and social activities of a firm compared with other firms within the industry are valued by financial...

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English / 28/06/2008

On the self-serving use of equity in international climate negotiations

We discuss self-serving uses of equity in international climate negotiations. Using unique data from a world-wide survey of agents involved in international climate policy, we show that the perceived support of different equity rules by countries can be explained by the ranking of their economic costs. Despite being self-serving, equity arguments may be perceived as being used for...

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English / 05/06/2008

Berufliche Vorsorge und Unternehmen

Das Paper zeigt auf dem Hintergrund von Interviews mit Schlüsselpersonen anhand von 7 Thesen die heutige Situation und beschreibt Handlungsfelder und Gestaltungsspielräume für Unternehmen

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Deutsch / 15/05/2008

Freiwilligenarbeit in der Firma: ein monetärer und menschlicher Gewinn

Dienst nach Vorschrift ist auf dem Vormarsch. Möchten Firmen von den Mitarbeitern mehr freiwilliges Engagement, müssen sie ihnen mehr Wertschätzung und Mitbestimmung geben.

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Deutsch / 01/03/2008

Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and...

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English / 01/01/2008

Il contributo della formazione professionale al successo aziendale

Conoscenza e formazione si ritrovano sempre più al centro dell’attenzione politica ed economica e costituiscono uno degli assi portanti delle strategie di gestione e di sviluppo aziendale, come pure di intervento degli enti pubblici, tanto su scala internazionale quanto nei contesti nazionali e regionali. Ciò è in stretto legame con il ruolo assunto dal capitale umano e dalle...

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Italiano / 01/01/2008

Studiengebühren als Signaling- und Screening-Instrument

Am 26. Januar 2005 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht das allgemeine Studiengebührenverbot für verfassungswidrig erklärt und damit den Weg für die Einführung von Studiengebühren frei gemacht. Doch was bewirken Studiengebühren? Können Informationsasymmetrien zwischen Universitäten und Hochschulbewerbern verringert werden? Kann die Einführung von Studiengebühren zu einem besseren Match...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Monetary rewards and faculty behaviour: how economic incentives drive publish or perish

Higher education institutions are increasingly emulating research institutions and concentrate their financial rewards on research output (Melguizo/Strober 2007). We investigate whether faculty members strongly react to such financial rewards. We focus on monetary rewards originating from promotions. Based on economic theories we derive three hypotheses. We test them with data from...

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English / 01/01/2008

IT-Kontrollen in der Finanzberichterstattung: theoretische Analyse und praktische Gestaltung am Fallbeispiel der Crealogix AG

Vor dem Hintergrund folgenschwerer Unternehmensskandale und zunehmender staatlicher Regulierung haben sich auch Schweizer Unternehmen mit dem Thema «Interne Kontrolle in der Finanzberichterstattung» auseinanderzusetzen. Der IT kommt dabei besondere Bedeutung zu. Sie dient heutzutage nicht mehr lediglich der Buchführung, sondern einer zeitgemässen Erfassung, Verarbeitung und...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Varianten der Diskursethik und deren Beitrag zur Lösung des philosophischen Grundlagenstreits zwischen Universalismus und Relativismus in der Bioethik

Beim Grundlagenstreit zwischen Universalismus und Relativismus geht es um die Frage, ob angesichts der Vielfalt kultureller Normen und Wertvorstellungen ein universeller Vernunftbegriff begründet werden kann.
Die praktischen Folgen für die Bioethik liegen auf der Hand: Erst wenn eine solche Begründung möglich ist, kann eine vernünftige Antwort auf die ethischen...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Internationalization School

Management literature has developed several theories that focus on the activities of business firms in foreign markets. The International School is an important part of this literature. This school of thought tries to explain the phenomenon of internationalization of production and trade (e.g., Hennart, 2001). The most important questions this school asks are: Why are firms leaving...

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English / 01/01/2008

Paradigms

A paradigm labels the basic assumptions about a researcher´s purpose, the character of the examined object (ontology), and the suitable methodology for examining the object. Therefore a paradigm gives the answer to the basic questions of the philosophy of science: (1) What is the purpose of research? and (2) By what means and methodologies can this purpose be achieved? Scherer...

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English / 01/01/2008

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