infonet-economy

Recent studies provide empirical evidence that family firms are outperforming their non-family counterparts in terms of stock market performance. For the Swiss stock market we find that family firms indeed outperform their non-family counterparts after controlling for firm size and beta. In addition, our data shows that family firms display more stable earnings per share in contrast...

Dem agilen Qualitätsmanagement kommt in einer dynamischen Unternehmensumwelt grosse Bedeutung zu. Deswegen ist es das Ziel dieser Ausarbeitung, anhand einer Einzelfallstudie in einem Unternehmen der Automobilzulieferindustrie die Integrierbarkeit und praktische Relevanz von Forresters systemdynamischer Methodik für das Qualitätsmanagement aufzuzeigen. Damit beabsichtigen wir, die...

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, how applying individualistic discourses to social relations in organizations rather hinders than facilitates change in organizations. The initial idea was to find out how social relations are constructed in organizations, thus de-focussing from the increasing popularity of concepts such as 'soft skills' or 'social competences...

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We discuss the ongoing liberalization process in the market for addressed letter mail in Switzerland. The core of the paper is an assessment of the liberalization's impact on the financial viability of various universal service obligations with and without access to the incumbent's downstream delivery network for customers and competitors. We propose a simple calibrated...