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Sounding out the creative city : De/Composing Experiences in Urban Space

With the growing importance of the cultural economy in many Western cities the experience of public space has become a focal point in the organization and planning of urban life. While this aesthetic reengineering of urban life clearly follows the paradigm of the entrepreneurial city, it raises the question if and how other modes and moods of ordering urban public space can...

English / 02/07/2013

Strategisches Denken - Marketingaktivitäten auf der Höhe der Zeit : Interview mit Prof. Dr. Sven Reinecke von Georg Lutz

Marketingleite haben heute eschwereii Stand. Auch Sie müssen sich fort- und weiterbilden um erfolgreich zu sein. Das gik1sbesondere für Finanzfragen, da diese in Unternehmen eine hegemoniale Position haben. Zudem stellt sieh die Frage, mit welchen Strategien auch kleine Unternehmen mit einem bescheidenen Budget erfolgreich
Marketin betreiben können. Wir führten mit Prof. Dr....

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Deutsch / 01/07/2013

The Transmission of Banking Crises to Households. Lessons from the 2008–2011 Crises in the ECA Region.

This paper examines the impact of the recent banking crises in Europe and Central Asia on households’ incomes and consumption patterns. The analysis is based on the 2010 wave of the Life in Transition Survey, which covers 12,704 households in eleven countries that experienced
a banking crisis between 2008 and 2011. It finds that households in middle-income crisis countries are...

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English / 01/07/2013

Firms as liquidity providers: Evidence from the 2007-2008 financial crisis

Using a supplier-client matched sample, we study the effect of the 2007-2008 financial crisis on between-firm liquidity provision. Consistent with a causal effect of a negative shock to bank credit, we find that firms with high pre-crisis liquidity levels increased the trade credit extended to other corporations and subsequently experienced better performance as compared to ex-ante...

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English / 01/07/2013

The same and the other: Male childcare workers managing identity dissonance

As childcare workers, men are in a contested position. On the one hand, they are in danger of being depicted as the pedophile; on the other, they are expected to bring something new and innovative to the thus-far female-dominated field. These men are experiencing ‘identity dissonance' and have to find ways to manage and facilitate legitimate subject positions as both childcare...

English / 01/07/2013

The Family Innovator's Dilemma: How Family Influence Affects the Adoption of Discontinuous Technologies by Incumbent Firms

We integrate research on family business and discontinuous change to better explain why incumbents vary in when and how they adopt discontinuous technologies. Family influence induces companies to strive for continuity, command, community, and connections, and thus alters the mix of constraints under which firms operate. Consequently, family influence weakens several of the inertial...

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English / 01/07/2013

Gesunde Getränke besorgt die Firma, Erholung ist Privatsache

Von betrieblichem Gesundheitsmanagement wird oft gesprochen, doch folgen den Worten auch Taten? Eine soeben veröffentlichte Studie zeigt, welche Massnahmen in Deutschschweizer Unternehmen verbreitet sind.

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Deutsch / 01/07/2013

IFERA Conference Proceedings 2013 : Ownership, Governance and Value in Family Firms

IFERA is pleased to present this rich compilation of research paper abstracts being
presented during this year?s conference. The program content highlights the fact that
the field of family business research continues to grow in a variety of ways ? in
content, in quality, in diversity of thoughts, methods, and geographical origin and
reach, as well as in rigor...

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English / 01/07/2013

Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters

Based on the findings of a qualitative empirical study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Swiss MNCs and SMEs, we suggest that smaller firms are not necessarily less advanced in organizing CSR than large firms. Results according to theoretically derived assessment frameworks illustrate the actual implementation status of CSR in organizational practices. We propose that small...

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English / 01/07/2013

Identifying causal mechanisms (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting

This paper demonstrates the identification of causal mechanisms of a binary treatment under selection on observables, (primarily) based on inverse probability weighting. I.e., we consider the average indirect effect of the treatment, which operates through an intermediate variable (or mediator) that is situated on the causal path between the treatment and the outcome, as well as the...

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English / 30/06/2013

Geschäftsmodelle von Kleinst- und kleinen Treuhandunternehmen : Analyse des Status Quo sowie Möglichkeiten zur Innovation

Der Beitrag untersucht die Ausprägungsformen von Geschäftsmodellen von kleinsten und kleinen Treuhandunternehmen sowie deren Innovationsgrad. Zudem werden Vorschläge zu Geschäftsmodellinnovationen erarbeitet.

Im Jahr 2005 zählte die Treuhandbranche in der Schweiz 36 110 Mitarbeitende in über 8000 Treuhandunternehmen (Bundesamt für Statistik, 2007). Die Branche wird von...

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Deutsch / 24/06/2013

Die Top-Logistikdienstleister der Schweiz

Eines der Hauptziele der Logistikmarktstudie 2013 ist die Schaffung von Transparenz im Hinblick auf die Dienstleister des Schweizer Logistikmarktes. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Ranking der 100 grössten Logistikdienstleister erstellt, um einen Überblick der wichtigsten Marktteilnehmer zu erhalten.

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Deutsch / 18/06/2013

Es stimmt etwas nicht mit der Betreuung unserer Kinder

Warum braucht eine Kinderkrippe viel mehr Personal als ein Kindergarten?

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Deutsch / 16/06/2013

Treatment Evaluation in the Presence of Sample Selection

Sample selection and attrition are inherent in a range of treatment evaluation problems such as the estimation of the returns to schooling or training. Conventional estimators tackling selection bias typically rely on restrictive functional form assumptions that are unlikely to hold in reality. This paper shows identification of average and quantile treatment effects in the presence...

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English / 16/06/2013

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