infonet-economy

It is a widely held belief that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, the cost of which needs to be recouped after the training period. A new firm-level data set for Switzerland reveals large variation in net costs across firms and, remarkably, negative net costs for 60 per cent of all firms. We use these data to estimate the effect of net costs on...

Die Bedeutung von Familienunternehmen in westlichen Volkswirtschaften erfährt eine zunehmende Anerkennung. Je nach Definition der Familienunternehmen finden sich Anteile von rund 80% aller Unternehmen, welche als Familienunternehmen bezeichnet werden können (Colli, 2003).
Eine der zentralen Fragen, welche Forscher in den letzten Jahren im Forschungsfeld Familienunternehmen...

Since Durkheim, sociological explanations of social cooperation emphasize the internalization of values that induce norm compliance. Since Adam Smith, economic explanations of social cooperation emphasize incentives that induce selfish individuals to cooperate. Here we develop a general approach – the Beliefs, Preferences, and Constraints approach – showing that each of the above...

Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local economic change. Following common amenity definitions, we define landscape amenities as...

This paper examines the link between financial reporting and corporate governance. Based on empirical examples of the recent confidence crisis in financial reporting and within an information economics framework, the fundamental case is being established. Then, the core elements of financial reporting are being presented. Based on an analysis of various international accounting...

Purpose: This paper seeks to propose an innovative approach to the assessment of the effectiveness of organizational structures.
Design/methodology/approach: Explores a concept fro the measurement of the fractal dimensionality of living organisms, applying it from biology to social organizations.
Findings: The fractal dimensionality of an organization normally lies in the...