infonet-economy

Forderungen nach mehr Aktionärsdemokratie finden zunehmende gesellschaftliche und auch akademische Akzeptanz. Der Beitrag er- läutert, weswegen sie dennoch falsch sind, und empfiehlt eine Rück- besinnung auf die Kernelemente der Board Primacy im Falle anste- hender Aktienrechtsrevisionen.

We empirically investigate the performance effect of team-specific human capital in highly interactive teams. Based on the tenets of the resource-based view of the firm
and on the ideas of typical learning functions, we hypothesize that team members’ shared experience in working together have a positive effect on team performance, but at diminishing rates. When we hold constant...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of an open outside-in innovation management strategy on companies' innovativeness and innovation performance. Specifically, it focuses on the adoption of the open innovation paradigm in practice and the extent of collaboration with different stakeholders.

Design/methodology/approach – The proposed hypotheses...

In this paper, we examine the process of global corporate social responsibility(CSR) standardization. By drawing on neo-institutionalist theories we distinguishbetween the breadth and depth dimension of CSR standardization. Based on our empirical study of the “Equator Principles”, a CSR standard in the field of international project finance, we exemplify that CSR standards indeed...

This paper investigates the effects of different types of talent management strategies on organisational performance. We introduce four different strategies and show how they affect organisational performance. For this purpose, we use a particularly detailed dataset of 138 Swiss companies. We find that talent management focusing on retaining and developing talents as job satisfaction...

This article introduces Luhmann’s theory of social systems as a prominent example of communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) thinking and argues that Luhmann’s perspective contributes to current conceptual debates on how communication constitutes organization. The theory of social systemshighlights that organizations are fundamentally grounded in paradox becausethey are...