Wissenschaftliche Literaturanalysis

Maximilian Bader

Three Essays on Cause and Effect of CEO Disciplining

An Empirical Analysis with Global Data

Finanzmanagement

This study is based on empirical finance research in the field of corporate governance. It examines cause and effect of CEO disciplining with three self-contained essays. For a global data sample, events of CEO dismissal are used as a proxy for active monitoring by boards. The essays deal with i) relative…

Bojan Jošt / Milan Coh / Janez Vodičar

Design of a Ski Flying Hill with the Profile HS300m

A Kinematic Analysis of the Flying Curve of Ski Jumpers

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

The main purpose of this book is to design a ski flying hill with the profile HS300m, for the first time, with the help of a kinematic analysis of the flying curve of ski jumpers.

The book is result of the special research project of the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana. Ski flying has become a…

Diana Schindler

Analyse von Konsumentenurteilen und Identifikation von Präferenzen mit Hilfe des World Wide Web

Ein konzeptioneller Rahmen zur Auswertung nutzergenerierter Inhalte

Studien zum Konsumentenverhalten

Das Internet ist heute ein Ort des Austausches und der Kommunikation zwischen Unternehmen und Konsumenten sowie Konsumenten untereinander. Im Kreise ihrer ’virtuellen Freunde’ oder zusammen mit ’virtuellen Experten’ fühlen sich Konsumenten wohl und möchten ’gehört’ und gesehen’ werden – auf OCR-Plattformen (Online…

Cedric Münzing

IPO Underpricing

Behavioral Explanations for Positive Initial Return

Finanzmanagement

When companies go public, average prices of common shares go up on the first trading day. What sounds like a marvelous investment opportunity, raises the question why issuers are willing to “leave money on the table.? This study presents a new approach based on irrational human behavior (e.g., prospect theory and…

Andrea Hammermann

Not Just for the Money,
but What For?

An Experimental and Empirical Analysis of Immaterial, Tangible and Monetary Incentives

Personalwirtschaft

One of the great challenges in personnel economics is how to align employee’s best interest to that of the employer. The literature on incentive theory has up to now focused mostly on monetary incentives. Indeed, many facts speak in their favor. Money is storable, fungible, easily tradable, and mainly independent…

Martin Schneider

Resource Wealth and Sustainable Development

A Comparative Analysis of the GCC Countries

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Natural resource-rich countries that are dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the resources, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face several challenges. They can be classified as challenges arising by nature…

Joseph Gimunta Mahiri

Spatial Analysis of Solar Water Desinfection (SODIS) and Household Water Management in Slums

A Case Study of Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya

GEOGRAPHICA – Schriftenreihe Geowissenschaften und Geographie

Water is a basic need. But due to hydrological, climate, social and political reasons is not available everywhere in the same quantity and quality. According to the World Health Organisation report, approximately 1.1 Billion people, which represent 17% of the global population lack access to safe and adequate…

Sarah Tapp

Self-Perception of Japanese Identity and its Perception by Others

Nihonjinron and its Impact on Business Relations Between European and Japanese Companies

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

For many European companies it is still challenging to establish successful relations with Japanese business partners and clients in the long run. Albeit the Japanese government has reduced many trade barriers, foreign enterprises still seem to experience plenty of other hindrances. Some of these obstacles appear…

Timm Wutzler

Open Innovation and Knowledge Management in Large Corporations

Organizational Antecedents and Performance Effects

Strategisches Management

This book consists of four individual studies that shed light on the interplay of innovation and knowledge management issues. With the proliferation of the open innovation paradigm and against the backdrop of increasing external knowledge transfer activities, knowledge management today is of cardinal importance for…

Florian Neymeyer

Die urheberrechtliche Schutzdauer

Am Beispiel der digitalen Fotografie

Studien zum Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und zum Urheberrecht

Die urheberrechtliche Schutzdauer für Fotografien beträgt nach § 64 UrhG 70 Jahre nach dem Tod des Urhebers. Dies scheint spätestens seit der digitalen Fotografie sehr lang. Wie kam es zu dieser Schutzdauer? Welchen Rahmen setzt die Verfassung dem Gesetzgeber? Wie lang sollte die optimale Schutzdauer sein? Ist eine…