infonet-economy

Die weltweite Finanzkrise und ihre Folgen bestimmten im ersten Halbjahr 2008 die Schlagzeilen in der Wirtschaftspresse. Banken mussten Abschreibungen in Milliardenhöhe vornehmen, und auch für die Realwirtschaft sind die Auswirkungen der Krise mittlerweile spürbar; nicht nur in den USA sondern auch in Deutschland wächst die Angst vor einer Rezession. Keineswegs unabhängig von den...

The purpose of this contribution is to make the idea of modeling as theory-building operational. We conceive the modeling process as a theory-building process, thereby opening up a new perspective on the methodology of modeling in the social sciences. By reconceptualizing the notion of modeling, we hope to convey the advantages of more conceptual thinking in management. Practitioners...

The new developments of the globalization process bring with them new responsibilities for the multinational corporation and its leaders. The aim of the paper was to identify those new responsibilities and to look at the changing role of leadership due to those responsibilities. This paper thereby acknowledges the need for a more descriptive and prescriptive social scientific...

Taking a practice-based perspective on strategy and strategic change, this paper aims at contributing to the current discussion about the interface between organizing and strategizing. Drawing on the concept of strategic episodes, we specifically explore practices and processes conducive to a fruitful interruption and suspension of operational routines allowing the differentiation...

This paper provides a theoretical model of a team sports league based on contest theory and studies the welfare effect of gale revenue sharing. It derives two counterintuitive results. First, it challenges the "invarianceproposition" by showing that revenue
sharing reduces competitive balance and thus produces a more unbalanced league. Second, the paper concludes that...

This paper introduces model-based theory building as a feature of system dynamics (SD) with large potential. It presents a systemic approach to actualizing that potential, thereby opening up a new perspective on theory building in the social sciences. The question addressed is if and how SD enables the construction of high-quality theories. This contribution is based on field...

Numerous studies have investigated the impact of family influence on the performance of a firm. The most-cited scholarly article in this respect was published by Anderson and Reeb (2003) who found that publicly quoted family firms outperformed their nonfamily counterparts. Since publication of Anderson and Reeb's (2003) article, comparable studies have been replicated throughout...