A review of managerial literature highlights the crucial of shared culture and common schemes of interpretation in organisational learning...

Die Entwicklung neuer Tech¬nologien ist für die meisten Unternehmen ein grundlegender Faktor, um neue Marktchancen er¬grei¬fen und zukünftige Herausforderungen meistern zu können. Dabei ist es zunehmend notwendig, innerhalb immer kürzer werdender Zeitspannen neue Technologien für das...

This paper considers critically the question of what constitutes „local partnership‟, including the stated meanings and implicit power relationships within, for instance, public/private partnerships, specific projects such as Building Schools for the Future or the „area partnership‟...

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash strategy significantly more often, and their choices...

In hierarchical organizations the role of a team leader often requires making decisions which do not necessarily coincide with the majority opinion of the team. However, these decisions are final and binding for all team members. We study experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders...