Publications des institutions partenaires
Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU) in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis – Jahresbericht 2012
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 04/03/2013
Vertrauen in die Krise - Eine Analyse des Stakeholdervertrauens in die UBS
Ausgelöst durch die Immobilienkrise 2007 in den USA erlitt das globale Finanz- und Wirtschaftssystem einen nachhaltigen Reputationsschaden. Den Banken ist nach wie vor unklar, wie dieses Vertrauen zurückerobert werden kann. Im Mittelpunkt steht daher die Frage, wie einmal verlorenes Vertrauen wieder aufgebaut werden kann und welche Massnahmen zum Vertrauensaufbau für die einzelnen...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/03/2013
R&D and Economic Growth in a Cash-in-Advance Economy
R&D investment has well-known liquidity problems, with potentially important consequences. In this paper, we analyze the effects of monetary policy on economic growth and social welfare in a Schumpeterian model with cash-in-advance (CIA) constraints on consumption, R&D investment, and manufacturing. Our results are as follows. Under the CIA constraints on consumption and R...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
The Arm's Length Principle and Distortions to Multinational Firm Organization
To prevent profit shifting by manipulation of transfer prices, tax authorities typically apply the arm's length principle in corporate taxation and use comparable market prices to ‘correctly' assess the value of intracompany trade and royalty income of multinationals. We develop a model of firms subject to financing frictions and offshoring of intermediate inputs. We find...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Monitoring and Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Using an experimental design that exploits exogenous reductions in coverage resulting from brokerage house mergers, we find that a reduction in coverage causes a deterioration in financial reporting quality. The effect of coverage on disclosure is more pronounced for firms with weak shareholder rights, consistent with a substitution effect between analyst monitoring and other...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Enhancing Research on Training for Cognitive Readiness : Research Issues and Experimental Designs
In the present article, we aim to provide guidelines on how to conduct research for the enhancement of training for cognitive readiness (CR). After distinguishing between trainable CR skills and stable person-related variables, CR components that are trainable need to be defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and person-related variables need to be selected as...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Why Do Family Firms Strive for Nonfinancial Goals? An Organizational Identity Perspective
This paper develops an organizational identity based rationale for why family firms strive for nonfinancial goals. We show that the visibility of the family in the firm, the transgenerational sustainability intentions of the family, and the capability of the firm for self-enhancement of the family positively influence the importance of identity fit between family and firm as well as...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
Wer hat Angst vor Ayn Rand?
Das Werk der amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Ayn Rand hat in den USA sowohl die Politik als auch die Populärkultur geprägt. Ihre Ideen finden sich im amerikanischen Kongress wie auch bei den Simpsons. Die neue Übersetzung ihres Hauptwerks macht sie nun auch im deutschsprachigen Raum wieder zugänglich.
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/03/2013
CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! : Why and How Corporate CEOs Should Pay More Attention to Corporate Functions
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for delivering corporate added value. Yet corporate functions often underperform and corporate offices often fail to add value. We argue that this is because CEOs focus most of their attention on portfolio strategy and business issues and give too little attention to guiding and leading their...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2013
The performance of estimators based on the propensity score
We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observed covariates is required, like inverse probability weighting, kernel and other variants of matching, as well as different parametric models. The simulation design used is based on real data usually employed for the...
Institution partenaire
English / 27/02/2013
A theory of communication in political campaigns
In this paper I develop a formal theory of campaign communications. Voters have priors about the quality of candidates' policies in the different policy issues and about the issues' relative importance. Candidates spend time or money (TV ads, public speeches, etc.) in an effort to influence voters' decision at the ballot. Influence has two simultaneous effects: (i) it...
Institution partenaire
English / 22/02/2013
Manifest zur Steuer- und Finanzplatzpolitik der Schweiz: Kein Schutz mehr für Steuerflucht!
Renommierte Wissenschaftler im Netzwerk "kontrapunkt" fordern vom Bundesrat mehr internationale Koopeerationsbereitschaft beim Kampf gegen die Steuerflucht.
"Der Sonntag" publiziert das Manifest.
Online verfügbar auf der Website von kontrapunkt: www.rat-kontrapunkt.ch/
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 17/02/2013
The Role of Customer Interactions & Internal Cooperation to Enhance Future Readiness
In order to create unique customer value and stay competitive also in the long run, customer-centric firms need to develop capabilities to identify relevant trends. The
scarce existent research, notably on absorptive capacities, and common management practice suggest that customer interactions and internal cooperation increase future readiness. With data from a cross-industry...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 15/02/2013
Battlefields and barriers, common terrain and paved ways: Repertoires on (a)symmetries related to language use and choice in multilingual organizations.
Institution partenaire
English / 15/02/2013
Schweizer M&A-Markt 2012: Auslandskauf statt Ausverkauf
Der Schweizer M&A-Markt entwickelte sich 2012 insgesamt positiv. So erhöhte sich die Anzahl der Transaktionen von 316 auf 356, was einer Zunahme von 13% entspricht. Damit stieg die M&A-Aktivität wieder auf das vergleichsweise solide Niveau von 2007 an. Ein noch positiveres Bild zeigt sich beim Dealvolumen. Das Gesamtvolumen der angekündigten Transaktionen mit Schweizer...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 15/02/2013
The Role of Customer Interactions and Internal Cooperation to Enhance FutureReadiness in Customer Centric Companies
In order to create unique customer value and stay competitive also in the long run, customer-centric firms need to develop capabilities to identify relevant trends. The scarce existent research, notably on absorptive capacities, and common management practice suggest that customer interactions and internal cooperation increase future readiness. With data from a cross-industry...
Institution partenaire
English / 15/02/2013
Logistikgesamtmarkt
Die Schweiz zählt mit einem Bruttoinlandprodukt (BIP) von rund 590 Mrd. CHF im Jahr 2011 zu den wettbewerbsstärksten Volkswirtschaften Europas. Auf globaler und europäischer Ebene kommt es jedoch stetig zu einer Verschärfung des Wettbewerbes, wodurch aus volkswirtschaftlicher Sicht die Bedeutung von logistischen Leistungen zunimmt. Gerade die Schweiz nimmt durch ihre geografische...
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 06/02/2013
Group Buying Schemes : A Sustainable Business Model?
Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, ob "Group Buying Schemes" wie beispielsweise von den Unternehmen Groupon und Dein Deal angeboten, ein nachhaltiges Geschäftsmodell sind. Anhand der Fallstudie Groupon wird mit einem System Dynamics Modell festgestellt, dass das Geschäftsmodell geändert werden muss, wenn die Unternehmung auf Dauer lebensfähig sein soll.
The authors...
Institution partenaire
English / 06/02/2013
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