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Beyond possession and competition: Investigating cooperative aspects of power in multilingual organizations.

This article examines power issues related to language diversity in organizations, thus answering the need to investigate the role of language in cross-cultural management. More specifically, it contributes to a better understanding of how intraorganizational power relations are (re)defined through language use. Building on insights from language-sensitive research in international...

English / 13/04/2017

Schweizer KMU. Eine Analyse der aktuellsten Zahlen – Ausgabe 2017

Nicht grosse Unternehmen ab 250 Mitarbeitenden dominieren die Schweizer Unternehmenslandschaft, sondern sogenannte Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU): 99.8% der Unternehmen in der Schweiz gelten gemäss den neusten provisorischen Zahlen des Bundesamtes für Statistik als KMU. Dabei sind die Kleinst- oder Mikrounternehmen mit weniger als zehn Mitarbeitenden mit 92.4% der Unternehmen die...

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Deutsch / 12/04/2017

Collaborative aspects of buying business services – a structural equation model

The focus of this research is to observe the purchaser integration within business service procurement and its impact on the collaboration with both internal customers and external service providers (suppliers). Therefore, different service types were examined in more detail occurring as a contingent factor. Based on structural equation modelling, partial least square analysis (PLS)...

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English / 12/04/2017

An integrated decision support system for berth and ship unloader allocation in bulk material handling port

Berth allocation and material handling problems in ports are generally solved independently. This article provides a framework for aligning allocation decisions of berth and ship un-loader in an integrative manner. The ultimate goal of these decisions is to minimize the waiting time, operating time and ships priority deviation. As the sojourn time of a ship in port is costly, and...

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Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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English / 10/04/2017

Video: The New Rules of Communication

Although video communication offers the potential to engage with employees and consumers, many established firms adopt video as a new communication medium quite slowly and with little enthusiasm. Based on our experience with leading national and international firms, we introduce a four step approach to help companies in adopting a video communication strategy, summarize the main...

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English / 10/04/2017

Blockchain-driven supply chain finance: Towards a conceptual framework from a buyer perspective

The main objective of this article is to develop a conceptual framework for blockchain-driven supply chain finance (SCF) solutions. The frame of reference intends to foster the coordination in buyer-supplier relations and eliminates existing inefficiencies in the execution of discrete SCF-instruments, such as reverse factoring and dynamic discounting. Moreover, we introduce value...

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English / 10/04/2017

Christian Grisse, Signe Krogstrup and Silvio Schumacher: Lower bound beliefs and long-term interest rates

We study the transmission of changes in the believed location of the lower bound to longterm interest rates since the introduction of negative interest rate policies. The expectations hypothesis of the term structure combined with a lower bound on policy rates suggests that the transmission of policy rate changes to long-term interest rates is reduced when policy rates approach this...

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Banque nationale suisse

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English / 05/04/2017

Robert Müller: The new SNB exchange rate index

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is putting its calculated and published exchange rate indices on a new footing. This article describes the construction elements of the SNB's new exchange rate index, and presents the results of the new index calculation. The key aspects of the revision are: the application of the weighting method used by the IMF, which takes into account so-called third...

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Banque nationale suisse

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English / 03/04/2017

Robert Müller: The new SNB exchange rate index

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is putting its calculated and published exchange rate indices on a new footing. This article describes the construction elements of the SNB's new exchange rate index, and presents the results of the new index calculation. The key aspects of the revision are: the application of the weighting method used by the IMF, which takes into account so-called third...

Institution partenaire

Banque nationale suisse

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English / 03/04/2017

Existe-t-il des conflits entre les fonctions de la forêt en Suisse ?: : perceptions de la population

En Suisse, la demande de bois croît, notamment dans le secteur de la construction et le bois-énergie représente une alternative intéressante et neutre en CO2 dans la perspective de l’abandon de l’énergie nucléaire. Dans le même temps, avec l’objectif de la gestion durable des forêts, la politique fédérale encourage la protection des ressources forestières du pays et le grand public...

Institution partenaire

Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 03/04/2017

Existe-t-il des conflits entre les fonctions de la forêt en Suisse ?: perceptions de la population

En Suisse, la demande de bois croît, notamment dans le secteur de la construction et le bois-énergie représente une alternative intéressante et neutre en CO2 dans la perspective de l’abandon de l’énergie nucléaire. Dans le même temps, avec l’objectif de la gestion durable des forêts, la politique fédérale encourage la protection des ressources forestières du pays et le grand public...

Institution partenaire

Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève

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Français / 03/04/2017

A Two-Factor Cointegrated Commodity Price Model with an Application to Spread Option Pricing

In this paper, we propose an easy-to-use yet comprehensive model for a system of cointegrated commodity prices. While retaining the exponential affine structure of previous approaches, our model allows for an arbitrary number of cointegration relationships. We show that the cointegration component allows capturing well-known features of commodity prices, i.e., upward sloping (...

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English / 01/04/2017

A "fractal" solution to the chopstick auction

This paper constructs a novel equilibrium in the chopstick auction of Szentes and Rosenthal (Games and Economic Behavior, 2003a, 2003b). In contrast to the existing solution, the identified equilibrium strategy allows a simple and intuitive characterization. Moreover, its best-response set has the same Hausdorff dimension as its support, which may be seen as a robustness property....

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English / 01/04/2017

Large dynamic covariance matrices

Second moments of asset returns are important for risk management and portfolio selection. The problem of estimating second moments can be approached from two angles: time series and the cross-section. In time series, the key is to account for conditional heteroskedasticity; a favored model is Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC), derived from the ARCH/GARCH family started by Engle...

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English / 01/04/2017

On the convergence of logit-response to (strict) Nash equilibria

We show that the logit-response dynamics converges to a subset of (strict) Nash equilibria for any weakly acyclic, N-player normal form game. The result holds independently of whether revision opportunities arise as in asynchronous learning or in other ways, as long as the dynamics is regular. Our analysis generalizes and organizes recent convergence results in the literature....

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English / 01/04/2017

Best Land Use with Negative Externalities: Determining Land Values from Residential Rents

When land regulations are binding, then the land price per m2 is determined by the attractiveness of the location and the restrictiveness of the regulation. In the case of a maximum oor area ratio (FARmax) restriction, the best use land price can be directly expressed as a function of the FARmax and local amenities. We show theoretically and empirically how this approach can be used...

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English / 01/04/2017

Püppchen und Autos

Die Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts zu Gender und Raumgestaltung in Kitas gibt Anregungen, die für das kleine Rollenspiel im Kindergarten ebenso bedeutsam sind

Deutsch / 01/04/2017

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