This paper makes a contribution to the research agenda on institutionalizing ideas, a subject related to but different than establishing an idea's causal power. It treats idea institutionalization as the dependent variable and argues that the practices actors use to determine an idea's meaning...

Venezuela is confronting an economic and financial crisis of unprecedented proportions. Its economy remains on a precipitous downward trajectory, national income has more than halved, imports have collapsed, hyperinflation is about to set in and the government continues to follow a policy of...

The clock ticking down for investors holding the outstanding debt of the Republic of Venezuela and its state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (“PDVSA”), may have just struck zero. On Friday, November 3, President Nicolás Maduro kicked off the much anticipated restructuring...

Change Management beeinflusst die Wohlfahrt von Mitarbeitern, Managern und Organisationseinheiten auf unterschiedliche Weise. Selbst wenn organisatorischer Wandel langfristig einen positiven Wohlfahrtseffekt hat, können Widerstände entstehen, die sich als einseitige Rationalfallen...

Organisatorischer Wandel impliziert in vielen Fällen eine Zunahme der Risiken für die Belegschaft. Hieraus ergeben sich oft Widerstände. Dieser Beitrag veranschaulicht, wie Change Manager mithilfe geeigneter Governance-Strukturen die Risikoproduktivität im Unternehmen erhöhen können. Dies...

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...

In this paper, we develop a simple general-equilibrium trade model in which heterogeneous workers make an investment decision in acquiring advanced managerial skills and choose their optimal effort level based on their own individual organizational beliefs and CEOś managerial vision. In doing...

Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...