Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift; one that is driven by policy, but also by pressures from a variety of market constituents such as consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance companies, banks and others. The shift is manifest in changes in market...

This study aims to synthesize the literature on the top management team (TMT) characteristics influence on environmental disclosures of public organizations and identify recent trends, key themes, influential journals, and authors. Our study recruited 88 research articles on the relationship of...

Genossenschaften zeichnen sich durch eine erfolgreiche Tradition aus. Doch wie stellt sich ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit als Organisations- und Kooperationsform der Zukunft dar? Diese Frage lotet "Die Genossenschaftsidee HEUTE", ein umfangreiches Forschungsprogramm am Institut für...

Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but she can provide justification by sending a costly cheap-talk message. If she does not provide justification, her message space is restricted, but the message is costless. I...

This paper studies the effect of disclosing conflicts of interests on strategic communication when the sender has lying costs. I present a simple economic mechanism under which such disclosure often leads to more informative, but at the same time also to more biased messages. This benefits...

Der Umgang mit Informationen wird für Unternehmen immer stärker wettbewerbsentscheidend. Das betriebliche Informationsmanagement steht dabei vor der Problematik, daß einerseits eine steigende Informationsflut zu verzeichnen ist, andererseits jedoch die benötigten Informationen nicht oder nur...