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Benediktinerabteien aus ökonomischer Sicht

Die Benediktinerklöster weisen im Vergleich zu anderen Institutionen eine ungewöhnlich lange Lebensdauer auf. Unsere empirische Untersuchung aller je existierenden Benediktinerabteien in Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und der Deutschschweiz zeigt, dass ein durchschnittliches Kloster fast 500 Jahren alt wird. Kombiniert mit dem Befund, dass nur rund ein Viertel der Klosterschliessungen auf…

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Deutsch / 01/01/2010

Monastic governance: forgotten prospects for public institutions

To overcome agency problems, public sector reforms started to introduce businesslike incentive structures to motivate public officials. By neglecting internal behavioral incentives, however, these reforms often do not reach their stated goals. Our research analyzes the governance structure of Benedictine monasteries in order to gain new insights into solving agency problems in public…

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English / 01/01/2010

Corporate governance: what can stock corporations learn from monasteries?

Purpose – The governance structure of monasteries is analyzed to gain new insights and apply them to solve agency problems of modern corporations. In a historic analysis of crises and closures we ask, if Benedictine monasteries were and are capable of solving agency problems. The analysis shows that monasteries established basic governance instruments very early and therefore were…

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English / 01/01/2010

Fusionen und Übernahmen im Licht der Hybris – Überblick über den Forschungsstand

Eine hohe Anzahl von Fusionen und Übernahmen scheitert. Gleichwohl sind Fusionen und Übernahmen an der Tagesordnung. Als eine Erklärung hierfür wird die Hybris-Hypothese diskutiert, d.h. die These, dass sich Entscheidungsträger der aufnehmenden Unternehmen systematisch überschätzen. Um diese These zu testen und um gegebenenfalls Maßnahmen gegen Hybris zu ergreifen, sind verlässliche…

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Deutsch / 01/01/2010

Cambridge Handbook of Strategy-as-Practice

The Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice provides the first comprehensive overview of an emerging and growing stream of research in strategic management. An international team of scholars has been assembled to produce a systematic introduction to the various epistemological, methodological and theoretical aspects of the strategy-as-practice approach. This perspective explores…

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English / 01/01/2010

Opening the black box of upper echelons: expertise and gender as drivers of poor information processing

Research Question/Issue: Why did the majority of directors prior to the financial crisis not have the foresight to predict the problems of taking on too much risk? We analyze whether executives' characteristics affect strategic choices due to bounded rationality, as proposed by the theory of upper echelons. The literature has thus far not empirically opened this black box.…

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English / 01/01/2010

Strategy research in the german context: the influence of economic, sociological, and philosophical traditions

The present paper takes a look at the particularities of German strategy research over the last three decades. In contrast to much of the Anglo-Saxon research, which has focused on competition as a guiding concept in theorizing about strategy, German research has typically been concerned with more fundamental questions about the general relationship between organizations and their…

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English / 01/01/2010

How top management team diversity affects innovativeness and performance via the strategic choice to focus on innovation fields

Past innovation research has largely neglected potential effects of corporate governance issues on strategic choices, and thereby on innovation management outcomes. The theory of upper echelon implies that strategic choices result from idiosyncrasies of top management teams (TMT). Building on this theory, we hypothesize that TMT diversity enhances firm performance by facilitating an…

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English / 01/01/2010

Pay for performance in the public sector: benefits and (hidden)costs

Current reforms in the public sector are characterized by the introduction of businesslike incentive structures, in particular the introduction of “pay for performance” schemes in public institutions. However, the public sector has some specific characteristics, which might restrict the naive adoption of pay for performance. Our article analyzes whether the impact of pay for…

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English / 01/01/2010

That’s Relevant! Different Forms of Practical Relevance in Management Science

Recently there has been an intense debate amongst scholars on how to increase the practical relevance of research. Although the notion of ‘relevance’ is frequently mentioned in the literature, it is hardly ever defined and may have different, even contradictory, meanings in different contexts. This article presents a taxonomy of different forms of relevance, based on a textual…

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English / 01/01/2010

Voluntary co-determination produces sustainable competitive advantage

The importance of firm-specific knowledge for a company’s sustainable competitive advantage is well established in the knowledge-based theory of the firm. However, the impact of corporate governance design on firm-specific knowledge investments is underexplored. We assess existing co-determination systems in Europe and their impact on firm performance; then we discuss voluntary co-…

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English / 01/01/2010

Open Innovation oder die Kunst, die Kontrolle zu kontrollieren

Organisation und Steuerung gehören zu den fundamentalen Aufgaben einer Firma. Ihre Perfektionierung als Organisations- und Steuerungsinstrument ist ein Ziel, welches bedeutende Investitionen rechtfertigt – ISO 9001, Six Sigma und ERP-Systeme belegen dies. Mit radikalem Kontrollverzicht experimentieren dagegen vorwiegend Communities von lose verbundenen Amateuren. Dass ihre…

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Deutsch / 01/01/2010

Reforma y gobernanza en salud: el atractivo del gerenciamiento en la acción pública

El artículo propone un examen de diferentes proyectos de reforma de los sistemas de salud de Canadá y de algunas provincias canadienses. Indica ciertas tendencias en la renovación de la gobernanza. El análisis se apoya sobre la hipótesis de que una reforma es per se un ejercicio de renovación de la concepción y de las prácticas de gobernanza. Al buscar renovar la gobernanza, los…

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Espagnol / 01/01/2010

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