infonet-economy

Eröffnungsbeitrag zum Dossier "Führung, Werte und Verantwortung" im Webmagazin FORUM WIRTSCHAFTSETHIK des Deutschen Netzwerks Wirtschaftsethik (DNWE).

In 2014 the Swiss Upper House introduced an electronic voting system, which would make it easier to monitor the voting behavior of its legislators. In this system, individual decisions on specific exogenously defined vote types are published automatically, while all other votes are not publicly disclosed. The present paper uses this institutional change to determine, in a quasi-...

In the wake of the economic crisis and with the rise of the Tea Party Movement in the United States, Ayn Rand’s novels have been (re-)discovered by a large readership. Advocating a stark individualism and laissez-faire capitalism, Rand’s opus magnum "Atlas Shrugged" (1957) resonates with many Americans’ fears that their country may resemble more and more the dystopian world...

This study explores the role of social comparison processes (SCP) in organizations. Unlike most SCP studies, we argue that SCP do not only take place on the individual, but also on the organizational unit level. Given the importance of procedural justice in headquarters-subunit alignment, we posit that organizational subunits engage in SCP with their peers on matters of procedural...

Networks can establish business connections and facilitate information flows; but how valuable are they in competitive settings, such as in the deal generation of private equity funds? We find that educational ties between management teams of acquiring fund and target company are frequent (around 15%) and increase the odds of winning a deal (by 79%). When competing with other funds,...

Die Kündigungsfreiheit wird durch eine Reihe von zeitlichen und sachlichen Vorschriften beschränkt. Die interessierenden Art. 336–336b OR befassen sich mit dem sachlichen Kündigungsschutz. Dieser bleibt unter dem europäischen Standard. Untersagt ist lediglich die missbräuchliche Kündigung. Wer das Arbeitsverhältnis aus Gründen kündigt, die das Gesetz als missbräuchlich bezeichnet,...

The present research deals with the influence of managers’ construal level on evaluations of customers and employee’s ideas in innovation contexts. While prior research found one’s situational construal level associated with creativity and feasibility ratings of ideas, we provide theory and evidence to suggest that the true hierarchy level of managers can alter evaluations of ideas...