infonet-economy

The aim of this paper is to trace the processes of translation through which coaching transports, transforms and transgresses therapeutic discourses into the managerial realm. Our empirical analysis, firstly, shows the architectures of coaching as a site of translation between two professional fields, management and therapy. Second, our analysis reveals that coaching as discursive...

We investigate active labor market programs in Austria. We find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. However, the programs may have unintended consequences for women. In particular for younger women, a key effect of the programs and one reason for the male-female effect differential that is observed in the literature is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to...

To address the complexity of multilingual communication, this paper applies a discursive approach to analyze how people account for the ways that specific languages are used in multilingual companies. Through our discourse analysis, we identify six different ways of accounting for language use. Further, we map the various tensions between these accounts through which we can...

Ziel dieser Stellungnahme des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Bundesministers für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung ist es, unterschiedliche Aspekte des Themas Elektromobilität zu beleuten und verkehrspolitische Handlungsempfhelungen zur Entwicklung der Elektromobilität in Deutschland im Internationalen Kontext zu geben.

This paper aims to answer the question what practices entrepreneurs use to construct their ventures. Academic research often focuses on one sensory modality as a route to knowing (Pink 2009). We take a holistic approach by involving all the senses as it is the 'experiecing, knowing and emplaced body' (Pink 2009: 25) that can make us
understand best. We have distilled...

This article examines whether international investors benefit from adding real estate investment trusts (REITs) to a mixed asset portfolio consisting of global stocks, bonds, hedge funds, and commodities. Previous literature has shown that REITs provide a strong co-movement with direct real estate in the long run. We therefore test the diversification potential of international REITs...

Luxusmarken schillern nicht nur in Boutiquen, die hinter den Marken stehenden Konzerne sind auch an der Börse interessante Marktteilnehmer: Starke Wertentwicklung und spannende Übernahmeprozesse sind in der Luxusbranche nicht unüblich. Im Interview kommentiert Stefanie Scholtysik, Analystin im Wealth Management Research der UBS, die aktuellen Bewegungen im Markt und gibt Einblicke in...