Publications des institutions partenaires
A critical understanding of entrepreneurship
In lieu of an abstract, here a short extract from the introduction:
... when using the term “critical” in CES (Critical Entrepreneurship Studies), we have in mind research which deliber- ately goes against the grain of functionalism and its deterministic view of human nature, reality and research, with the aim of opening up space to critique the canon of accepted knowledge and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Relational embeddedness and firm growth: Comparing spousal and sibling entrepreneurs
Integrating relational embeddedness arguments with Penrosean growth theory, we compare the growth of firms run by spousal entrepreneurs with firms run by sibling entrepreneurs. We theorize that trust, identification, and mutual obligations—the three facets of relational embeddedness—are more pronounced in spousal teams than in sibling teams, which provides spousal teams with...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Uncovering Vote Trading Through Networks and Computation
We develop a new methodological framework for the empirical study of legislative vote trading. Building on the concept of reciprocity in directed weighted networks, our method facilitates the measurement of vote trading on a large scale, while estimating the micro-structure of trades between individual legislators. In principle, it can be applied to a broad variety of voting data and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Radical business model transformation. Gaining the competitive edge in a disruptive world
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The professionalization of humanitarian organizations: The art of balancing multiple stakeholder interests at the ICRC
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Tesla Motors. Business Model Configuration, Case Study Update: From Tesla Motors to Tesla
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Radical business model transformation : Gaining the competitive edge in a disruptive world
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Technologies That Support Marketing and Market Development in SMEs—Evidence from Social Networks
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The Influence of Anticipated Regret on Business Start-Up Behavior
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Mapping the Field: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Literature on University-Industry Collaborations
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
The Purchasing of Business Services - Performance Excellence Study 2016
The following study reveals some comprehensive details and increases the transparency concerning the acquisition of business services. Especially for the DACH region, valuable and first of their kind insights are revealed. Altogether, ten major areas are addressed and analysed, focusing on a comparison with goods purchasing and typical procedures that are applied within professional...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/12/2016
Locating Ordonomics
Ingo Pies (2016b) provides an engaging review of our article “Locating Responsibility” (see Kolmar/Beschorner 2016), published in one of the past issues of the zfwu. In his thoughtful comments, he discusses our suggestion of a multi-level approach in economic ethics against the background of his own ideas of “ordonomics”, which is an alternative conceptual framework that allows to...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/12/2016
Career change: The Role of Transition Narratives in Alternative Identity Constructions
This chapter addresses the question of why some people may be more successful than others at creating an alternative identity in the course of a career change. Taking a narrative perspective, the author draws particular attention to a variety of transition narratives which function as legitimizing resources for people to distance
themselves from previous self-concepts, while at...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2016
Why does the Job Corps increase gender earnings inequality?
Several studies considering the Job Corps find more positive earnings effects for males than for females. This effect heterogeneity in favor of males contrasts with the results of the majority of other training program evaluations. Applying the translated quantile approach of Bitler, Hoynes, and Domina (2014), I show that the main mechanism behind the surprising findings for the Job...
Institution partenaire
English / 30/11/2016
Divergence and Convergence in Multi-party Collaboration: ‘Moving the Paradox On’
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2016
Probing the power of entrepreneurship discourse: an immanent critique
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... in this chapter I ask how individuals targeted by the discourse of entrepreneurship either identify with or resist it. This question is investigated in the realm of development aid, a context in which discussions of entrepreneurship and business savvy have acquired increasing prominence over the last...
Institution partenaire
English / 25/11/2016
Touchstone of Trust inside Organizations: Antecedents of high-trust manager-employee relationships
Using qualitative and set theoretic methods, we target cognitive processes of why managers install high-trust relationships with their employees, focusing on the leap of faith as the irra-tional touchstone of such trust relationships. In a first step we ‘open the managers’ heads’, as results of our semi-structured expert-interviews reveal five cues prompting them to leap: (1)...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2016
Agglomeration Effects and Liquidity Gradients in Local Rental Housing Markets
This paper empirically analyzes the relation between local liquidity in rental housing markets and urban agglomeration e�ects. Using listed rent o�ers from online market platforms, I study the cross-sectional variation of rental market liquidity. Local liquidity is negatively related to the distance to nearby located urban Agglomeration centers, manifesting in a decreasing liquidity...
Institution partenaire
English / 16/11/2016
Individual Investor Activity and performance
We examine the daily activity and performance of a large panel of individual investors in Sweden's Premium Pension System. We find that active investors earn higher returns and risk-adjusted returns than inactive investors. A performance decomposition analysis reveals that most of the outperformance of active investors is the result of these investors successfully timing mutual...
Institution partenaire
English / 07/11/2016
What effect do vocational training vouchers have on the unemployed?
The objective of providing vocational training for the unemployed is to increase their chances of re-employment and human capital accumulation. In comparison to mandatory course assignment by case workers, the awarding of vouchers increases recipients’ freedom to choose between different courses and makes non-redemption a possibility. In addition, vouchers may introduce market...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2016
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