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You get what you 'pay' for: Academic attention, career incentives and changes in publication portfolios of business and economics researchers

Since the 1990s, research on publication outputs in business and economics has almost exclusively focused on journal articles. While earlier work has shown that journal articles and other publications were indeed complements in the 70s and 80s, we find that this is no longer the case when we include the most recent decades. Apparently, the notable shift in the scientific community’s...

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English / 01/01/2017

Lageberichterstattung in der Schweiz

Das OR schreibt «grösseren Unternehmen» einen Lagebericht als gesonderten Bestandteil des Geschäftsberichts vor. Eine Untersuchung der im Swiss Reporting Standard der SIX gelisteten Unternehmen zeigt: Der einschlägige OR-Artikel erweist sich als «Papiertiger».

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Deutsch / 01/01/2017

The liquidity advantage of the quote-driven market: Evidence from the betting industry

Even though betting exchanges are considered to be the superior business model in the betting industry due to less operational risk and lower information costs, bookmakers continue to be successful.We explain the puzzling coexistence of these two market structures with the advantage of guaranteed liquidity in the bookmaker market. Using matched panel data of over 1.8 million...

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English / 01/01/2017

The impact of government subsidies in professional team sports leagues

This article develops a game-theoretical model to analyze the effect of subsidies on player salaries, competitive balance, club profits, and welfare. Within this model, fan demand depends on win percentage, competitive balance, and aggregate talent. The results show that if a large market club receives a subsidy and fans have a relatively strong preference for aggregate talent,...

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English / 01/01/2017

Who is attracted by teamwork? Evidence of multidimensional sorting from a real-effort experiment

We analyze the factors that drive an individual’s self-selection decision between (1) working individually and being paid for individual performance and (2) working on a team and being paid for team performance. While the literature has focused on task specific ability as a self-selection criterion, we also investigate the effects of teamwork skills, expectations concerning the task...

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English / 01/01/2017

Combining knowledge stock and knowledge flow to generate superior incremental innovation performance - Evidence from Swiss manufacturing

Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) and the flow of knowledge within the firm (induced by HRM systems). While human resource theory expects complementarities between human capital pools and HRM systems, it does not explicitly...

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English / 01/01/2017

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