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Sustainable entrepreneurship is a vital and growing area of entrepreneurship studies. Although charged with multiple potentially conflicting discourses, sustainable entrepreneurship is usually viewed from a binary logic of business versus sustainability. This article uses an aesthetic process approach to sustainable entrepreneurship to move beyond this binary logic and unearth the...

Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie Gerichte und Anwälte mittels "Event Study"-Gutachten im Kontext des Kapitalmarkts die Kausalität zwischen einer Pflichtverletzung und einer Schädigung wesentlich zuverlässiger feststellen können, als dies in der bisherigen Rechtspraxis der Fall ist. Die "Event Study" kann anhand von messbaren Daten und Fakten zeigen, ob zwischen...

More and more companies are publicly taking a stand on social and political issues such as gay marriage legislation. This paper argues that this type of engagement, which can be called ‘‘corporate political advocacy,'' raises new conceptual and normative challenges especially for theories of corporate responsibility. Furthermore, it poses practical challenges for managers...

Recent evidence suggests that successors do not simply inherit their parents' firm, but have to pay a certain price. Building on institutional logics literature, we explore successors' family discount expectations, defined as the rebate expected from parents in comparison to nonfamily buyers when assuming control of the firm. We find that family cohesion increases discount...