Publications des institutions partenaires
The Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies and the Role of Collaboration
This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and hence more risky and...
Institution partenaire
English / 20/06/2015
The Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies and the Role of Collaboration
This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and hence more risky and...
Institution partenaire
English / 20/06/2015
Making sense of decoupling through narration : the case of fighting corruption in global business
Previous organizational research on decoupling in the context of socio-environmental governance has suggested a trade-off between compliance and goal achievement, meaning that remedying the decoupling of policies and practices tends to jeopardize efforts to remedy the decoupling of means and ends. We expand on previous research on the trade-off between compliance and goal achievement...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/06/2015
Doing gender and professionalism : Exploring the intersectionalities of gender and professionalization in early childhood education
Men in early childhood education (ECE) are subjected to different discourses: while they are facing serious mistrust on the one hand, their otherness to the field is also interpreted as new and potentially innovative on the other hand. This article explores how male childcare workers create and take up different subject positions by drawing on these competing discourses in order to...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/06/2015
Beyond essentialism and competition: Investigating productive aspects of power in multilingual organizations.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/06/2015
Massnahmen für den alpenquerenden Güterverkehr
Ihre zentrale Lage in Europa macht die Alpenregion zu einem Brennpunkt im europäischen Güterverkehr. Unterschiedliche Massnahmen in der Verkehrspolitik der Alpenländer sorgen dafür, dass es im alpenquerenden Güterverkehr zu relativ starken Verschiebungen im Modalsplit zwischen Strasse und Schiene kommt. Im Rahmen der Logistikmarktstudie Schweiz, Band 2015 wird der alpenquerende...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 12/06/2015
Normativity, Ethics, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Critical Assessment
This article critically assesses the work of the UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights (SRSG) John Ruggie. The article adopts a normative perspective on the issue. Thus, its critique is derived from the standpoint of ethics. The SRSG was instrumental in shifting the burden of proof to those who deny corporate human rights responsibilities. This achievement, however...
Institution partenaire
English / 11/06/2015
Kompetente Strategieumsetzung : Welche Massnahmen hilfreich sind
Für die Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten ist das Zusammenspiel von Wissen und Aktivitäten im Hinblick auf zu erfüllenden Aufgaben massgeblich. Das gilt insbesondere für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung strategischer Initiativen. In einer explorativen Studie wurden acht übergreifende Erfolgsfaktoren hierzu identifiziert. Sie decken sich mit Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung z.B. zu...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 05/06/2015
Book review: Implicit Functions and Solution Mappings:A View from Variational Analysis. Second Edition. By A. L. Dontchev and R. T. Rockafellar. Springer, New York, 2014
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Is more always better? : An investigation into the relationship between marketing influence and mangers' market intelligence dissemination
How does the influence of the marketing department within an organization affect marketing managers' dissemination of market intelligence (i.e., knowledge about customer needs and competitor activities) to managers of other departments? Three studies with 711 executive managers and integrated survey and experimental data offer insights. Rather than the positive relationship...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Die Leiden der jungen Strommarktordnung – aktuelle Probleme des StromVG unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rechtsprechung zu Netzgebietszuteilung und Grundversorgung
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2015
Doing und Undoing Gender in Kinderkrippen : Eine Videostudie zu den Interaktionen von Kindernbetreuenden mit Kindern
Kinderkrippen sind für viele Kinder die erste Bildungsinstitution und für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter bedeutsam. Im Beitrag wird auf der Basis einer ethnographischen Videostudie in vier Deutschschweizer Kinderkrippen untersucht, wie Gender in der pädagogischen Alltagspraxis der Kinderbetreuenden relevant wird. Für die Kodierung der Videodaten werden Interaktionsverläufe in...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/06/2015
Value Creation in Family Firms: A Model of Fit
We propose a framework describing how family ownership can create or destroy value depending on the goals, resources, and governance of the family firm, which are each influenced by the family owners. Taking a contingency perspective, we suggest that a fit is required for all three elements - family-influenced goals, resources, and governance - for the family firm to flourish over...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
The evolution of the small business and entrepreneurship field: A bibliometric investigation of articles published in the International Small Business Journal
Abstract
This article analyses the evolution of the small business management and entrepreneurship fields as reflected in articles published in its premier journal, the International Small Business Journal.
It investigates the evolution of the fields through bibliometric examination of all 660 articles published between 1982 and 2012. While small business management has...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Investing optimally in advertising and quality to mitigate product-harm crisis
Product-harm crisis are the nightmare of any firm as they have a disastrous effect on their sales and image. This paper proposes a new model to compute the optimal investment in quality and advertising in order to reduce the probability of occurrence of a possible product-harm crisis and mitigate its effects. This method uses stochastic control theory and can be used for both...
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2015
Coupling techno-economic energy models with a share of choice
Classical energy planning models assume that consumers are rational and this is obviously not always the case. This paper proposes an original method to take into account the consumer’s real behavior in an energy model. It couples a classical energy model with a Share of Choice model.
Institution partenaire
English / 28/05/2015
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