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Why do so many exploratory initiatives fail? This article suggests the reason may be managers' tendency to under-invest in four key learning activities - searching, processing, codifying and practicing. Based on a study of forty-one exploratory initiatives in three insurance firms, this article explains why each of these four activities is important and why, despite their...

Ein generationenwechsel in der Geschäftsführung und in den Eigentumsverhältnissen einer Firma führt zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen. Der ausscheidende Unternehmer muss sich von seinem Lebenswerk trennen. Verantwortung, Macht, Prestige und wertvolle Beziehungen gehen oft verloren. Berufliche und persönliche Gepflogenheiten müssen aufgegeben und neue Lebensgewohnheiten entwickelt...

This paper proposes a growth-oriented dual-income tax by combining an allowance for corporate equity with a broadly defined flat tax on personal capital income. Revenue losses are compensated by an increase in the value added tax. The paper demonstrates the neutrality properties of the reform with respect to investment, firm financial decisions and organizational choice. Tax rates...

The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different states of age, we separate the concepts of age and time since birth. Agents may retain...

Der in Interview-Form gehaltene Beitrag entfaltet die Vision einer Gesellschaft, die auch den Verlierern der Globalisierung eine menschenwürdige und einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft angemessene Existenz anbietet.

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