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Egalitarianism in young children

Human social interaction is strongly shaped by other-regarding preferences. These preferences are key for a unique aspect of human sociality – large scale cooperation with genetic strangers – but little is known about their developmental roots. We show here that young children’s other-regarding preferences assume a particular form – inequality aversion – that develops strongly...

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English / 28/08/2008

Strukturierte Produkte - je einfacher, desto besser

Empirische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass sich einfach strukturierte Produkte für die Anleger am meisten lohnen. Wegen mangelnder Transparenz seitens der Anbieter und wegen psychologischer Fehleinschätzungen kaufen viele Investoren aber oft komplexe und teure Vehikel.

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English / 26/08/2008

The importance of a bottom up development perspective when serving the base of the pyramid

Multinational Corporations can contribute to reach the targeted poverty reduction goals – the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. Linking the core business of a multinational with development goals can be found in the concept of Serving the Base of the Pyramid mainly pushed by C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart. In the “classic” development work, bottom up approaches,...

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English / 22/08/2008

Macht Arbeit Herrn und Frau Schweizer glücklich?

Im Rahmen der empirischen Untersuchung „Schweizer HR-Barometer 2008“ wird unter anderem die Zufriedenheit der Schweizerinnen und Schweizer mit ihrer Arbeit, ihrem Leben und ihrer Work-Life-Balance erhoben. – Wie zufrieden sind die Schweizerinnen und Schweizer?

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Deutsch / 20/08/2008

Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State

The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to globalization; (ii...

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English / 20/08/2008

High-Resolution-Management: Konsequenzen des "Internet der Dinge" auf die Unternehmensführung

Informationstechnologien beeinflussen heute nicht nur in zunehmendem Ausmass die Organisation, sondern mehr und mehr auch die anderen Aufgabenbereiche einer Unternehmensführung wie Strategie, Controlling oder Personalmanagement. Dies gilt insbesondere dann, wenn es seitens der Informationstechnologie zu bahnbrechenden neuen Entwicklungen kommt . Gleichzeitig beschäftigt man sich...

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Deutsch / 20/08/2008

Travel incentives as tournament compensation - Problems of contestant heterogeneity and solutions

Whereas the theoretical literature on organizational reward systems repeatedly points to the importance of tournament models from an efficiency perspective, very few is known about the application and effectiveness of tournament compensation in organizations, especially when contestant heterogeneity is taken into account. While the distorting effects of contestant heterogeneity on...

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English / 13/08/2008

Towards a model of collective organizational identification: a longitudinal survey study

This paper develops a model of collective organizational identification for the work-unitlevel. Following Chen and colleagues’ (2004) procedure for validating collective constructs, we first describe the theoretical development process of a collective perception of organizational identification. In a second step, we extend our understanding of the theoretical construct by...

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English / 13/08/2008

Economic view on CSR - odd couple or happy relationship?

The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and economic payoff has been an increasingly important issue for scholarly discussion. To enable a better understanding of the similarities, distinctions and complementarities between explaining theories, I set forth a theoretical basis for constituting CSR activities on an individual level. An alternative modeling of the...

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English / 13/08/2008

The new political role of business in a globalized world: a call for a paradigm shift in CSR

Mainstream theorizing in management and economics is based on the assumption that business firms focus on profits only, while it is the task of the state system to provide public goods and to regulate the economy in such a way that business activities contribute to the common good. Business firms are conceived of as private actors and governments and their state agencies are...

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English / 13/08/2008

That’s relevant! Towards a taxonomy of practical relevance

Recently there has been a growing concern amongst organisation and management scholars about the practical relevance of their research. Yet, although many researchers talk about ‘relevance’ they hardly ever define what they mean by that. The term itself has different meanings, which often even contradict each other. This ambiguity is problematic as it implies different and even...

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English / 13/08/2008

Voluntaristic vs. systemic perspectives on managing the consultant-client relationship

The aim of this article is to provide a new theoretical perspective on the possibilities for clients to manage their consultants. The existing perspectives on managing consultants share the voluntaristic assumption that in principle it is possible to manage the consultant–client relationship. In this article we introduce a new and opposed systemic perspective. From a systems-...

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English / 13/08/2008

Strategy workshops as strategic episodes: three case studies

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remain considerable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Using the concept of strategic episodes, this paper develops an endogenous theory of change, where the sources of change are located in the organization itself. We argue that processes of organizational...

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English / 13/08/2008

Ecomagination - Ein Unternehmen positioniert sich nachhaltig

Nachhaltigkeit hat sich zu einer Art Mantra für das 21. Jahrhundert entwickelt. Damit steigt für Unternehmen der Erklärungsbedarf
gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit: Wie nachhaltig ist ihr eigenes wirtschaftliches Handeln? Verantwortungsbewusster
Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen wird zunehmend zu einer Herausforderung von existenzieller Bedeutung. Unternehmen sollten die...

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Deutsch / 13/08/2008

Multinational corporations as corporate citizens: an empirical analysis of UN Global Compact participants in Switzerland

The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is the largest “corporate citizenship” (CC) initiative in the world. Almost 4000 companies have signed up for the initiative whereby they voluntarily commit themselves to adhere to ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor rights, the environment and corruption (www.unglobalcompact.org).

Eight...

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English / 10/08/2008

Intraindustry Differential Firm Performance: Extension of the Attention-Based Theory to Strategy Formation

In the strategy literature, much research has been conducted about factors and processes influencing strategy formation with the objective to reap sustainable intraindustry differential firm performance. In this theory-development paper, I argue that the integration of insights taken from different threads of strategy process research can create new findings which comprise of a...

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English / 08/08/2008

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