Publications des institutions partenaires
Mining online community data: the nature of ideas in online communities
Ideas are essential for innovation and for the continuous renewal of a firm’s product offerings. Previous research has argued that online communities contain such ideas. Therefore, online communities such as forums, Facebook groups, blogs etc. are potential gold mines for innovative ideas that can be used for boosting the innovation performance of the firm. However, the nature of...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/06/2017
Reverse educational spillovers at the firm level
Institution partenaire
English / 30/03/2017
Method and application of characterisation of life cycle impact data of construction materials using geographic information systems
Purpose: This research presents a methodology to characterize life cycle impact data (LCIA) of alternative construction materials outside of the European context.
Methods: This methodology was based on the characterization of data and life cycle assessment (LCA) using geographic information systems (GIS), which has been proposed as an effective alternative for this purpose. The...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Job security as a threatened resource: Reactions to job insecurity in culturally distinct regions
As downsizing and restructuring have become global phenomena, the impact of job insecurity on employee attitudes has received significant attention. However, research examining the role of cultural dimensions has been largely unexplored. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we investigated whether the relationships between both quantitative job insecurity (i.e. the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
When a door closes, a window opens? Long-term labor market effects of involuntary separations
This study estimates the earning losses of workers experiencing an involuntary job separation. We employ, for the first time in the earning losses literature, a Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood estimator with fixed effects that has several advantages with respect to conventional fixed effects models. The Poisson estimator allows considering the full set of involuntary separations,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Integrating QCA and HLM for Multilevel Research on Organizational Configurations
Mixed methods systematically combine multiple research approaches—either in basic parallel, sequential, or conversion designs or in more complex multilevel or integrated designs. Multilevel mixed designs are among the most valuable and dynamic. Yet current multilevel designs, which are rare in the mixed methods literature, do not strongly integrate qualitative and quantitative...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Die Rolle der dualen Berufsausbildung für das Innovationssystem in Deutschland
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
Detecting nestedness in graphs
Many real-world networks have a nested structure. Examples range from biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), industry systems (e.g. New York garment industry) to inter-bank networks (e.g. Fedwire bank network). A nested network has a graph topology such that a vertex’s neighborhood contains the neighborhood of vertices of lower degree. Thus, the adjacency matrix is...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Europe and Africa: Addressing the food security challenges (Chapter 6)
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
Attitudes towards the role of innovation in promoting sustainable agriculture
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2017
«Embeddedness»: Einbettung von Firmen als Voraussetzung für Nachhaltigkeit
Multinationale Unternehmen, die gerade auch in weniger entwickelten Ländern investieren, sind beliebte Prügelknaben. Ihnen wird unter anderem vorgeworfen, wegen geringerer Regulierung die Umwelt zu verschmutzen, Menschenrechte zu verletzten oder von tieferen Sozialstandards auf Kosten der lokalen Belegschaft zu profitieren. Die Wirklichkeit ist komplexer. Sie zeigt: Multinationale...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2017
Politik als Feind der Wissenschaft : Ein Verbot der grünen Gentechnik schadet der Schweiz
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 17/12/2016
Coping with migration-induced urban growth: addressing the blind spot of UN habitat
The demography of cities in the 21st century will be shaped, to a large extent, by migration. This paper argues that the rights-based approach to urban policy advocated in the preparatory work of Habitat III, the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development to be held in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador, may not be conducive to this goal. The approach lacks a contextual...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/08/2016
Frischluft für die Weltbank
Paul Romer hat die Grundsätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie auf den Kopf gestellt. Ob er seine Ideen als neuer Weltbank-Chefökonom in die Praxis umsetzen kann, bleibt offen. Die Widerstände sind gross.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 08/08/2016
When corporatism leads to corporate governance failure : the case of Swiss watch industry
Corporatism is often seen as the way Swiss stakeholders in business and politics handle industrial challenges in a reasonable and flexible way. The following publication argues, however, that the emergence of corporatist structures in the Swiss watch industry has often encouraged rent-seeking and collusion at the expense of the creation of new markets through innovation. This legacy...
Institution partenaire
English / 09/06/2016
Reference price formation for product innovations: the role of consistent price-value-relationships
When deciding between product alternatives, consumers have to compare the observed prices to their internal reference price to determine whether the offer is a good deal or not. For product innovations, for which no reference price has been established, it is unclear against which standard the observed price is compared. Despite extensive research on the use of reference prices,...
Institution partenaire
English / 19/02/2016
Wer Subsistenzwirtschaft betreibt, hat nichts für die Börse übrig.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/02/2016
Wer die Zocker bekämpft, macht sich zum Handlanger der Abzocker
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 14/02/2016
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