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The disposition to become an entrepreneur and the jacks-of-all-trades in social and human capital

This paper studies how an individual's composition of human and social capital affects his or her disposition to become an entrepreneur. Our theoretical analysis is an extension of Lazear's (2005) jack-of-all-trades theory in combination with the idea of bricolage of experiences and their effectuation in the disposition to become an entrepreneur. Our primary conclusion is...

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English / 01/01/2013

Tournament compensation systems, employee heterogeneity, and firm performance

Tournament compensation systems are widely used in practice and have been extensively analyzed theoretically. However, one major problem has hardly been studied in a company context so far: Although it is theoretically well understood that tournament compensation systems are only effective when employees are homogeneous, it has rarely been analyzed what companies can do when they are...

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English / 01/01/2013

Are all startups affected similarly by clusters? Agglomeration, competition, firm heterogeneity, and survival

Are all startups similarly affected by the survival benefits and drawbacks of locating in geographic clusters? In this paper, we argue that prior theorizing may have missed important contingencies that affect whether a startup experiences the benefits and costs of locating in a cluster. In particular, while the local levels of skilled labor, suppliers, and purchasers have a...

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English / 01/01/2013

Top management's attention to discontinuous technological change: corporate venture capital as an alert mechanism

Technological discontinuities pose serious challenges to top managers’ attention. These discontinuities, which often occur at the fringes of an industry, are usually driven by innovative and (often) venture capital-backed start-ups creating new products and transforming existing industries in ways that are difficult for incumbent managers to understand against the backdrop of their...

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English / 01/01/2013

Empirical research on management control

Studies on the management control system have evolved since its first work published. Management control is the process by which managers influence other members of the organization to implement the organization’s strategies. The guiding framework for this research is an instrument-oriented framework developed by Malmi and Brown, which represents the most intuitive and recent...

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English / 01/01/2013

Improving marketing’s contribution to new product development

In many firms, the marketing department plays a minor role in new product development (NPD). However, recent research demonstrates that marketing capabilities more strongly influence firm performance than other areas such as research and development. This finding underscores the importance of identifying relevant capabilities that can improve the position of marketing within the NPD...

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English / 01/01/2013

Social Media als Management-Herausforderung - Ansätze zur erfolgreichen Implementierung von Social Media-Strategien

Social Media erleichtern den direkten Kundenkontakt und eröffnen von der aktiven Beteiligung an Innovationsprozessen über die Stärkung von Kundenbeziehungen bis hin zur digitalen Distribution vielfältige Optionen für das Marketing. Gerade für das Dienstleistungsmanagement bietet der Einsatz einen grossen Mehrwert, da Social Media die Kundenintegration über die eigentliche...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2013

"Alle anderen haben das auch!"

Jugendliche und Marken stehen in einem symbiotischen Verhältnis zueinander: Einerseits sind Marken für Jugendliche hoch relevant, weil sie Orientierung, Identität und Zugehörigkeit bieten bzw. vermitteln. Andererseits sind Jugendliche für Marken sowohl direkt als auch indirekt eine äusserst wichtige Zielgruppe, sind sie doch (auch) die Kunden von morgen. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2013

Hiring subsidies for people with a disability: Helping or hindering? - Evidence from a small scale social field experiment

Many countries provide hiring subsidies aimed at promoting the employment of people with disabilities. The effectiveness of these subsidy schemes remains unclear. The subsidy lowers wages and may thus increase employment, but may also signal lower quality of the applicant (who has to disclose a disability), which deter employers from hiring. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of...

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English / 01/01/2013

Ausgestaltung einer effektiven Corporate Governance : Eine Analyse der Zusammensetzung, Verantwortlichkeiten, Ressourcen und Sorgfalt des Verwaltungsrats

Der Artikel untersucht die Ausgestaltung des Verwaltungsratsausschusses Audit Committee börsenkotierter und nicht-börsenkotierter Unternehmen in der Schweiz. Diese Analyse wird in vier Dimensionen vollzogen: Zusammensetzung, Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeiten, Ressourcen und Sorgfalt des Audit Committee. Für jede Dimension werden die Implikationen für die unternehmerische Praxis und...

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Deutsch / 01/01/2013

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