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Organising a multi-stakeholder process - Creating a paradoxical collaborative identity

Within this study multi-stakeholder collaboration is presented as new form of relational organising in response to a crisis of governance in the international environmental politics arena. As a form of societal collaboration, multi-stakeholder processes aim for societal change within the contested field of sustainable development. Multi-stakeholder collaboration is modelled as the…

English / 01/09/2008

"Der Staat sollte Gründern bessere Bedingungen bieten"

Das Forschungsprojekt "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor" (GEM) vergleicht jedes Jahr Gründungsaktivitäten in 42 Ländern. Seit 2001 arbeitet Heiko Bergmann vom Schweizerischen Institut für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen an der Universität St. Gallen mit an der Studie und kennt die Unterschiede zwischen Deutschland und der Schweiz

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Deutsch / 01/09/2008

A stakeholder perspective to family firm performance

Through the lens of stakeholder theory this text deepens our understanding of financial and nonfinancial performance outcomes in family firms across multiple stakeholder categories, including the family level of analysis. Based on this foundation, we develop a typology of performance relationships between performance outcomes: overlapping, causal, synergistic, and substitutional. We…

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English / 01/09/2008

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

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

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

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

Kombination von beruflicher und akademischer Ausbildung

Wer eine berufliche und eine akademische Ausbildung kombiniert, wird vom Arbeitsmarkt belohnt. Das gilt insbesondere für die Laufbahn als Unternehmerin
oder Unternehmer. Für diese ist demgegenüber das zukünftige Einkommen unsicherer als für Arbeitnehmende. Werden die Passerellen zwischen den beiden Bildungstypen weiter erleichtert, dürfte die Bildungsrendite noch steigen.

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Deutsch / 01/08/2008

Neue Möglichkeiten zur Nutzung vertraulicher amtlicher Personen- und Firmendaten

Researchers in Germany have nowadays access to confidential micro data compiled from official statistics in a way that could not have been dreamt of just a few years ago. This paper describes the new institutions that grant data access – most importantly the research data centers located inside the data producing agencies – and how to access the micro data, and presents information…

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Deutsch / 01/08/2008

The effect of marginal cost elasticity on competitive balance

This article presents a model of talent investments where two clubs compete for prizes. Our model is based on a general class of cost functions with a constant elasticity of marginal costs with respect to investments. The analysis finds that reduced revenue sharing improves competitive balance. Furthermore, we show that a higher elasticity of marginal costs with respect to…

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English / 01/08/2008

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