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Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich hat mit seinem Werk die Entwicklung der Managementlehre maßgeblich geprägt. Er hat auch seine Alma Mater richtungsweisend mitgestaltet, sowohl in ihrer konzeptionellen und inhaltlichen Orientierung, als auch bezüglich der Qualität von Forschung und Lehre. Ulrich war Mitbegründer und langjähriger Leiter des Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft an der Hochschule St....

This article attempts to show that from 12 December 2016, WTO Members can no longer use the analogue country or similar methodologies as the basis for normal value calculations in anti-dumping proceedings targeting China and should rather use Chinese domestic prices or costs. However, contrary to what some would like decision-makers to believe, this does not mean that the EU or other...

We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise control over legislative vote outcomes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Several pieces of...

Family business philanthropy operates at the intersection of family, business and society and is of crucial importance to social goods such as education, health and humanitarian aid around the world. For instance, corporations and foundations in the US, many which
are family-owned, donate over US$ 67 billion per year. In the UK, the top 100 family businesses and foundations...

According to F. A. Hayek, Keynes' General Theory neglects an analysis of the production structure. As a contribution to this research gap, we look at companies' decisions to finance investments and at their agility to adjust their capital structure. We thus study the relationship between capital structure to finance corporate production and shifts in aggregate demand....

Vor dem Hintergrund einer kontroversen Diskussion auf der Plattform "Ökonomenstimme" zu "Schwierigkeiten mit der Moral" in der Wirtschaftspraxis diskutiert der vorliegende Beitrag Probleme der traditionellen Wirtschaftswissenschaften hinsichtlich der Konzeptualisierung moralischer Dimensionen in ökonomischen Theorien. Die Autoren zeigen, dass eine reine...

Working at the intersection of narrative and psychoanalytic theory, we present in this article an affective conceptualization of identity dynamics during times of career change, incorporating the notion of unconscious desires. We propose that frictions in career change narratives, such as the paradoxical co-existence of coherence and ambiguity, allude to unconscious subtexts that can...