infonet-economy

This paper explores the mutual links between corpor ate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governan ce (CG), and corporate financial performance (CFP). We aim to in vestigate the extent to which a firm's internal CG structures may influence its CSR practices and the resulting impac t on its financial performances. To take into accou nt the mutual interactions between these...

The extant body of literature regularly describes the internationalization pattern of born globals as haphazard, random, chaotic, unstructured or nonlinear at best. Moreover it is said that born globals often venture abroad in an opportunistic fashion and that their internationalization efforts are often triggered by an unsolicited request of a potenti al client. Analyzing a...

Volition is a determinant psychological factor in entrepreneurship to better understand the behavior of entrepreneurs. This study analyzes the personal characteristics that determine the route of entrepreneurial actions by analyzing volitional skills of three categories of people: students, potential entrepreneurs, and active entrepreneurs. The results show that individuals mobilize...

The transition from compulsory schooling to upper-secondary education is a crucial and frequently difficult step in the educational career of young people. In this study, we analyze the impact of one non-cognitive skill, locus of control, on the intention and the decision to delay the transition into post-compulsory education in Switzerland. We find that locus of control, measured at...

Gemäss einer weit verbreiteten Meinung ist der kombinierte Verkehr (KV) Strasse–Schiene ab einer Strecke von 300 bis 500 km wirtschaftlich. Es mangelt jedoch an aktuellen Untersuchungen, die diese «kritische Distanz» systematisch herleiten oder überprüfen. Besonders im Hinblick auf die Schweiz liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass der KV aufgrund zahlreicher Fördermassnahmen des Bundes...

Social identity theory offers an important lens to improve understanding of founders as enterprising individuals, the venture creation process, and its outcomes. Yet, further advances are
hindered by the lack of valid scales to measure founders' social identities. Drawing on social identity theory and a systematic classification of founders' social identities (...

Scant research has examined the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for team learning across time. Drawing on theories of team learning, group development, and technological affordances, we provide a multi-method case analysis of emails and interviews that explores how and when team learning occurs. We analyze 468 emails and 20 interviews collected from a team...

This paper examines the impact of postadoption innovation implementation strategies on five distinct performance outcomes. Using a sample of 85 hotels in Europe, the study explores which implementation strategies are most strongly linked to specific innovation outcomes and competitive performance. The results reveal that employee enabling implementation strategies have a positive...

We show that conventional hedonic models of commercial real estate prices ignore the utility investors derive from the externality created by extremes in attributes such as building size and height. Analyzing geo-enriched data on nearly 4,800 hotel transactions in the U.S., we detect separating equilibria across trophy commercial properties and others in pricing the extreme...