Competitiveness

Sarah Holly

Impact of Incentives and Working Conditions on Performance and Satisfaction

Personalwirtschaft

Since the first workers were engaged by organizations and, work moved beyond a sole owner, incentives, organizational structures, and their impacts on employees have been crucial topics. This subject area has continued to be of interest as work environments and work organizations continue to change; in modern times, the effects of globalization […]

Bernd Kadura, Joachim Langbein, Kerstin Wilde

Strengthening Innovation Systems

Foundation, Concept and Strategic Approach

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Strengthening innovation systems is of prime importance for sustained competitiveness of countries and regions in an increasingly knowledge-based global economy.

This does not only apply to industrialised countries, but holds true for emerging economies and developing countries as well. This manual provides policy makers, policy […]

Barbara Gobsch, Joachim Käschel & József Vörös (Eds.)

Supply Chain and Corporate Environmental Management

Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Knut Richter

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

This volume contains a collection of papers in the field of Supply Chain and Corporate Environmental Management in honor of Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Knut Richter, one of the leading scholars in this area. Contributed by distinguished academics, the volume chapters deal with a broad variety of topics, including Reverse Logistics, Operations […]

Mariana Stamm

Essays on Asymmetric Markets

Advertising, Collusion and Mobile Telecommunications

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

In day-to-day business, managers are accustomed to think of their competitors as individuals who differ in size, cost structure and, for example, consumer appeal. Yet, most research in the field of industrial organization maintains the assumption of symmetry between firms. This book contains a collection of three essays that depart from this […]

Anke Baker

The Impact of Market Liberalization on Knowledge Sharing in the Utilities Industry

An Exploratory Study of Self-Organizing Processes

Strategisches Management

The book originates from the organizational transformation processes in the German utilities industry that were triggered by market liberalization. It approaches the issue of violated trust within the utilities industry from an intra-organizational perspective. Trust is a key component of psychological contracts that, in turn, vastly influence […]

Bernhard Weber

Dispositional Influences on Motivation Gains of Inferior Group Members

Schriften zur Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie

In recent years, a growing number of studies have demonstrated that inferior group members sometimes exert higher efforts when working collectively compared to individual work. Prior research identified two main processes underlying these motivation gains: social comparison and social indispensability. While prior research primarily focussed on […]

Andreas Eickhoff

Transparency in the Banking Sector

A Microeconomic Analysis of Informational Aspects in the Credit Market

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The growing complexity and dynamics of financial systems as well as the increasing risk of market failures calls for a higher level of transparency on global markets, especially in the banking sector, to foster a solid and smoothly functioning financial system. Primarily regulatory authorities and central banks aspire to more transparent […]

Honorat Satoguina

Contribution of the Clean Development Mechanism to Sustainable Energy Production

The Energy Sector in the West African Economic and Monetary Union - Case Study: Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

The Kyoto Protocol encompasses flexible mechanisms, which allow the use of the world’s cheapest possibilities for emission reductions. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows for the generation of emissions credits through emission reduction projects, is the only mechanism that involves developing countries in the global climate […]

Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann (Hrsg.)

International Customer Behaviour and Retailing Research

2nd CIRCLE Conference Proceedings

Studien zum Konsumentenverhalten

New trends in consumer behaviour triggered by international macro-environmental changes are indispensable sources for internationalisation strategies of global, multinational and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Young researchers formed an international network and presented their findings on a variety of topics and industries on the […]