Publications des institutions partenaires
Liquidation : Die ordentliche Geschäftsaufgabe als strategische Nachfolgeoption
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Schätzung der Kosten von Regulierungen und Identifizierung von Potenzialen für die Vereinfachung und Kostenreduktion im Bereich Statistik : Forschungsbericht im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Statistik
Forschungsbericht - Das Projekt "Schätzung der Kosten von Regulierungen und Identifizierung von Potenzialen für die Vereinfachung und Kostenreduktion im Bereich Statistik" wurde von Januar bis Juli 2013 vom Schweizerischen Institut für Klein? und Mittelunternehmen der Universität St. Gallen im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Statistik (BfS) bearbeitet. Das Vorgehen im Projekt...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Monitoring BGM Deutschschweiz - Projektkurzbericht : Anpassung des Monitoring Instruments und Ausarbeitung einer Wegleitung für das Forum BGM Ostschweiz
Auftragsforschung - Das Monitoring Instrument konnte erfolgreich gekürzt werden - der Zeitaufwand beträgt im Mittel - nur noch knapp zehn statt fünfzehn Minuten - ohne dadurch an Aussagekraft zu verlieren. Es lassen sich sehr gut Rückschlüsse auf die Umsetzung von BGM in den Betrieben ziehen. Das weiterentwickelte
Tool zielt darauf ab, Informationen zu den für BGM relevanten...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Entrepreneurial Families : From a Family Enterprise to an Entrepreneurial Family
How do family firms succeed from generation to generation? While this is likely the most important question for the members of a family business, little is known about the central success factors in creating value across the generations. For this reason, our study aims to explore the secrets of family firms with a long, successful track record and to expand the current state of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Vom Familienunternehmen zur Unternehmerfamilie : Generationenübergreifende Wertgenerierung in Unternehmerfamilien
Diese Studie geht der Frage nach, wie Familienunternehmen über Generationen hinweg erfolgreich sein können. Um den entsprechenden Erfolgsfaktoren auf den Grund zu gehen, wählen wir eine neue Herangehensweise.
Zum einen betrachten wir nicht nur Familienunternehmen, sondern vielmehr die hinter diesen Unternehmen stehenden Unternehmerfamilien. Zum anderen fokussieren wir uns...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Toward a Paradox Perspective of Family Firms: the Moderating Role of Collective Mindfulness of Controlling Families
Despite numerous attempts to establish the link between family involvement and firm performance, research findings are alarmingly inconsistent. Some researchers, mostly drawing from traditional economics, depict a very pessimistic picture, suggesting that family involvement is a source of fundamental inefficiency because of owner-owner agency conflicts, resource constraints, and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
From Body of Knowledge to Ways of Thinking : Theoretical Implications of Sector-specific CR in Europe
The main question of this final section of the book is: What theoretical lessons can we learn from sector-specific corporate responsibility in Europe? We will develop our argument in five steps:First, a perspective on cultural business ethics will be sketched that can be located between pure business perspectives, on the one hand, and pure normative perspectives on CR, on the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Sector-specific CR in Europe : Rethinking Responsibility
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Fair information technologies : The corporate responsibility of online social networks as public regulators
From a business ethics perspective, this dissertation studies the role of companies in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector as regulators with respect to access to knowledge, civic engagement online, and civil liberties on online platforms. To this end, it takes into account three cases: (1.) digital divides and the capabilities of corporate citizens to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Sector-specific Corporate Responsibility in Germany
Germany is one of the world's leading exporters and benefits from a healthy economy despite the economic and financial crisis. It is also the origin of the so-called "social market economy". In light of this tradition and its strong economy, which boasts many leading companies, the country has been criticised for not doing enough regarding explicit corporate...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Experts' views on sector-specific corporate responsibility
Sector-specific corporate responsibility (SCR) is an emerging subject both in practice and in the general CR discussion. In order to look into existing knowledge and perceptions of the concept, we surveyed CR experts in the eight European countries covered in the study via an online survey (see Section 2.1). These national perspectives were complemented by interviews with CR experts...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Features and Trends of Sector-specific Corporate Responsibility
This study is an initial foray into the emerging field of sector-specific corporate responsibility (SCR). While the previous chapters have presented the empirical evidence that had been gathered, this chapter aims to make sense of the data. At first, five sets of evaluation criteria for SCR initiatives are introduced and explained. The criteria are then applied on four good examples...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Ethics and Economics
Revised edition of the chapter under the same title in "Ethics in the Economy: Handbook of Business Ethics", ed. by L. Zsolnai, 2002.
Business ethics is more than just ‘applied ethics.' There is no domain which is ‘free' from normative presuppositions, and mainstream economics is nothing more than a strongly normative ‘ideal theory' of rational action...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
The Normative Foundations of Entrepreneurial Activity
Chapter B3 in the textbook (required readings) for the course "Business Administration A", University of St. Gallen, September 2013
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Normative Orientation Processes
Chapter FI1 in the textbook (required readings) for the course "Business Administration A", University of St. Gallen, September 2013
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Sozialer Fortschritt in der Bürgergesellschaft : Horizonte einer zivilisierten Marktwirtschaft
Etwas muss schief gelaufen sein mit dem modernen Projekt der freiheitlichen Gesellschaft und Marktwirtschaft. Der wirtschaftliche «Fortschritt» dient kaum mehr der Erweiterung der realen Bürgerfreiheit und der Verbesserung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, sondern entfaltet eine eigensinnige Sachzwanglogik des globalen Standortwettbewerbs gegen sie. Eine auffallend kleine...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Run-off 2013: Status quo und zukünftige Bedeutung von Run-off im deutschsprachigen Nichtleben-Versicherungsmarkt
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2013
Strategic Renewal of Activity Systems : An Interdependency Perspective
A growing literature stream conceptualizes organizations, their strategy, and business models as complex systems of interdependent activity choices. Accordingly, firms have to make decisions about which activities to engage in and to what extent. Choices made are interdependent with one another and thereby influence whether the system as a whole is internally consistent and fits its...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
A Global Approach to the Control of an Industry Structure System Dynamics Model
We consider a system dynamics model that describes the effect of human activity on natural resources. The central stocks are the accumulated profit, the industry structures, and the water resources. The model can be controlled through two time-dependent parameters. The goal in this paper is to find a parameter setting that leads to a maximization of a performance index, which...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
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