infonet-economy

In this paper we show that the recent model by Gilles Duranton [Duranton, G., 2007. Urban evolutions: The fast, the slow, and the still. American Economic Review 97, 197-221] performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the...

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.

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...