infonet-economy

Ein Blick auf das "SAirGroup-Debakel" mit besonderem Augenmerk auf den Aspekt der Management-Verantwortung.

The management of a company's integrity is becoming more and more important. Due to legitimate claims and the pressure from different stakeholder groups it is no longer sufficient for a firm to be simply profitable. It has to act responsible to humans and the non-human environment. The implementation of an integrity management system (IMS) helps to safeguard the moral rights of...

The search of optimal structures for social organizations has been an ongoing concern of management science, but reliable answers have not been given. Optimization theory has provided solutions, but these have always addressed very specific organizational problems, not the issue of overall optimality in terms of the fitness of the organization as a whole. In this paper, a new...

An eastern enlargement of the EU, from an incumbent country point of view, involves a fiscal burden from extending Union agricultural and cohesion policies to new members, coupled with potential gains as well as adjustment problems deriving from an extended customs union and a larger single market. Enlargement is controversial, because the net effect is unclear, a priori, and will...