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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...

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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
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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Normative Orientation Processes

Chapter FI1 in the textbook (required readings) for the course "Business Administration A", University of St. Gallen, September 2013

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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...

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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...

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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...

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English / 01/01/2013

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