infonet-economy

Im Rahmen des Artikels wird argumentiert, dass die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen dazu führen, dass Schweizer Unternehmen - im Vergleich zu deutschen - in geringerem Ausmaß auf ihre eigenen Lehrlinge zurückgreifen, wenn es darum geht, freie Facharbeiterstellen in der Produktion zu decken.

Almost all social interations between people, but also within and between social groups rely on trust. Thus trust is one of the most relevant social phenomena, influencing our thinking, our feelings, our decisions and the way we act. The decision to trust typically requires the willingness of one party to rely on the actions of another party. Examples of trust relationships within…

Financial attributes are potentially important influences on the viability of apprenticeship as a mode of vocational education and training. Two financial aspects are considered: apprentices’ pay, which determines the division of training costs between the trainee and the employer; and corporate ownership, which may influence the incentive
to employers to provide training,…

This book examines the diffusion process for a complex medical technology, the PET scanner, in two different health care systems, one of which is more market-oriented (Switzerland) and the other more centrally managed by a public agency (the province of Quebec in Canada). More specifically, this research draws on institutional and socio-political theories of the diffusion of…

We study a newly released data set of scanner prices for food products in a large Swiss online supermarket.
We find that average prices change about every two months, but when we exclude temporary sales,
prices are extremely sticky, changing on average once every three years. Non-sale price behavior is
broadly consistent with menu cost models of sticky prices. When…

Ob bei der Bank, beim Kauf eines Fahrscheines oder beim Check-In am Flughafen - immer häufiger lassen Unternehmen ihren Kunden die Wahl zwischen verschiedenen Kanälen. Wer es schafft, Kunden gezielt in die richtigen Kanäle zu steuern, kann Vorteile für seine Kunden und das eigene Unternehmen erzielen. Auf Basis der Erkenntnisse eines mehrjährigen Forschungsprogramms hat das Institut…