infonet-economy

Reference price systems for prescription drugs constitute widely adopted cost containment tools. Under these regimes, patients co-pay a fraction of the difference between a drug's pharmacy retail price and a reference price that is set by the government. Reference prices are either externally (based on drug prices in other countries) or internally (based on domestic drug prices...

Die Beschaffung von Investitionsgütern hat grossen Einfluss auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der einkaufenden Unternehmen. Anders als andere Beschaffungshauptgruppen betreffen Investitionsgüter den Wertschöpfungsprozess von Unternehmen zentral, weil sie die technischen Voraussetzungen der eigenen Leistungserbringung sind.

The success or failure of a business hinges in the first place on the model that forms the basis of its commercial activities. Business models are needed in all kinds of enterprises. Often these models are not scrutinized with the necessary depth. In situations of high planning uncertainty, e.g., when starting a new business, the lack of data tools to assess the sustainability of...

While succession intentions have received increasing scholarly attention in recent years, there is a lack of knowledge about country-level antecedents and differences. Our paper aims to close this gap by investigating succession intentions of 6,360 students with family business background from 26 countries. More specifically, we blend theory of planned behavior with institutional...

Research on entrepreneurial learning often stresses the role of experience and previous knowledge. We aim to advance this perspective by pointing out the prerequisites and limitations of experience-based forms of learning and by adapting findings from educational psychology to the entrepreneurial context. Developing a model of self-regulated entrepreneurial learning (SREL) we pursue...

Policy makers have an increasing interest in designing appropriate public R&D policy programs to stimulate national innovativeness and competitiveness. First, this study investigates the effects of public R&D subsidies on firms’ R&D investments accounting for the collaboration pattern of the subsidized firms. Second, this representative analysis further puts light on the...

Critical diversity studies have pointed out the need for more empirical studies on the dynamics of power and diversity in organizations. Exploring how the diverse workforce itself experiences diversity is required. This paper makes a contribution to meeting the research agenda by empirically examining the negotiation processes around privilege in linguistically diverse organizations...

Grossen Jubiläen gebühren grosse Worte. Die in solchen Momenten gepflegten rhetorischen Höhenflüge belobigen nicht selten Errungenschaften, die ohne die ursprünglichen Problembestimmungen, die der Gründung des gefeierten Vereins zugrunde lagen, gar nicht als erstrebenswert aufgefallen wären. Um es mit einem bekannten Diktum auszudrücken: "Mit der Technik von heute schaffen wir...