infonet-economy

Vorstellung des Dissertationsprojekts

There is a growing debate about economics not only being bad for practice but also destroying good management practice. The focus of this debate has been on the negative influences of wrong assumptions in theory building which become a self-fulfilling prophecy. We analyze why standard
economics indeed can be bad for managerial and political practice. Aside from wrong…

Die Boni-Zahlungen waren nicht nur für den Finanzsektor schädlich, findet Margrit Osterloh von der Uni Zürich und spricht sich generell dagegen aus. Im Interview mit SKO-Leader sagt die renommierte Wirtschaftsprofessorin, warum sie diese Meinung vertritt und welche Lohnsysteme sie besser findet.

Many recent studies have voiced the growing concern that the body of knowledge that springs from organisation science is hardly taken notice of in management practice. In most of the existing literature one can identify three main reasons for the observable lack of connection between organisation research and practice: research is not sufficiently focused on the ‘real’ problems of…

In this paper, we provide an analysis of the principal economic issues in the professional team sports industry. We characterize the major peculiarities of this industry and give an overview of the most important league
policy measures that are implemented to provide cross subsidies among teams. In particular, we focus on salary caps and compare the US major leagues with the…

This paper outlines and analyzes different competitive strategies for an established platform provider in a two-sided market to defend against various forms of attack. Taking into account the characteristics of two-sided markets, we consider strategies based on product innovation
and network effects, process innovation and pricing, multiple platforms, and switching costs.…