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Performance-Management-Systeme in dezentralen Organisationen : Entwicklung eines Bezugsrahmens mit Fallstudien aus der Detailhandelsindustrie

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Performance-Management-Systemen (PMS) und Strategien zur Performancesteigerung in dezentralen Organisationen anhand von Fallstudien aus der Retail-Industrie. Dezentrale Organisationen bieten die Möglichkeit des internen Benchmarking als Ansatz für ein Performance Management. Lokal entwickeltes Wissen, welches oftmals in der...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Fähigkeiten zur Umsetzung hybrider Produktionsstrategien in der Schweiz

Schweizer Unternehmen mit einer traditionell schweizerischen Marktpositionierung, gekennzeichnet durch qualitativ hochwertige Produkten mit hohen Preisen, geraten aufgrund des globalen Wettbewerbs zunehmend unter Bedrängnis. Die veränderten Marktbedürfnisse erfordern heutzutage oftmals eine gleichzeitige Differenzierung über hohe Qualität, Flexibilität, Zuverlässigkeit, Innovation,...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Introducing structuration theory in communal consumption behavior research

Purpose – In community research, there is a large gap between theoretical developments and empirical proves. Especially, in micro-macro contexts, where the interaction between micro- (the community member) and macro-(the community) level variables have significant effects, no comprehensive theoretical approach that explicitly frames micro-macro phenomena has been considered in...

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English / 01/01/2008

Der vergessene Wirtschaftskrieg: Schweizer Unternehmen im Ersten Weltkrieg

Mit dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges am 1. August 1914 brach die liberale Wirtschaftsordnung nach einer langen Phase der Expansion buchstäblich über Nacht zusammen. Der Krieg entwickelte sich rasch zu einem hochtechnisierten Produktions- und Abnutzungskampf, der Millionen von Menschen das Leben kostete. Um die «Materialschlachten» durchstehen zu können, wurde nicht nur die...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2008

Awards: A view from psychological economics

Awards in the form of orders, decorations, prizes, and titles are ubiquitous in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit, and profit-oriented firms. This paper argues that awards present a unique combination of different stimuli and that they are distinct and unlike other monetary and non-monetary rewards. Despite their relevance in all areas of life awards...

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English / 01/01/2008

Oxytocin attenuates affective evaluations of conditioned faces and amygdala activity

Social relations between humans critically depend on our affective experiences of others. Oxytocin enhances prosocial behavior, but its effect on humans’ affective experience of others is not known. We tested whether oxytocin influences affective ratings, and underlying
brain activity, of faces that have been aversively conditioned. Using a standard conditioning procedure, we...

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English / 01/01/2008

Waiting for stronger integrated networks of care

In order to promote the diffusion of insurance contracts with managed care characteristics among Swiss citizens the Federal Council suggests that Parliament defines networks of integrated care (with budgetary responsibility) as part of the federal law on social health insurance. At this stage Parliament is still searching for an appropriate solution.

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English / 01/01/2008

Economics and the Summer Olympics: an efficiency analysis

Applying stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate distance to frontier of countries in the production of success at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1950s. Our measures of success are medal shares and a broader concept including Olympic diplomas. Following Bernard and Busse (2004), population and GDP are used as inputs. While the impact of GDP is always positive, we show that the...

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English / 01/01/2008

Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence

In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and strengths. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us to assess the relative contribution of cyclical frequency bands
on real wage earnings....

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English / 01/01/2008

A link between workers' remittances and business cycles in Germany and Turkey

This paper examines the cyclical interactions between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and output in both Turkey and Germany. Our analysis introduces a new data set covering 1962 to 2004, never used before in the research literature and considered to be a more reliable source than the data sets used in other studies. By dividing the original sample into recruitment,...

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English / 01/01/2008

Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: four essays on latent heterogeneity in economic behavior

Most economic models are limited to analyzing the behavior of a representative agent and, consequently, make the implicit assumption that either individuals are homogeneous
or that individual heterogeneity does not matter for the aggregate outcome. However, recent empirical evidence in experimental economics indicates that under strategic complementarity a minority of...

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English / 01/01/2008

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