In a growth model, rent-grabbing and free riding can give rise to inequality in productivity and firm size. Inequality among firms affects a firm's incentive to free ride or to grab rents, and, hence, the incentive to invest in research and training We follow Lucas and Prescott (1971) and...

This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two "classes" (workers and capitalists) and the case of a continuum distribution of agents, characterized by different...

Vorwort zur ersten Auflage -- Einleitung -- Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen -- Managementprozess -- Organisation -- Konstitutive Entscheidungen -- Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsethik : verantwortliches Handeln -- Materialwirtschaft und Logistik -- Produktion -- Marketing -- Personalmanagement --...