The theory of the firm is dominated by two approaches: transaction cost economics and the knowledge-based view. While these theories have extended our understanding about the existence of the firm, they have considerable weaknesses concerning the motivationalassumptions.(...)

Employees are motivated intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Intrinsic motivation is crucial when tacit knowledge in and between teams must be transferred. Organizational forms enable different kinds of motivation and have different capacities to generate and transfer tacit knowledge.(...)

This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between organizational units and functions.(...)

Auch wenn der Weg in eine Spitzenposition nur noch kurz erscheint, ist er für hochqualifizierte und überdurchschnittlich motivierte Frauen mit deutlich höheren Barrieren gepflastert als für Männer gleicher Qualifikation - eine sogenannte gläserne Decke.Die vorliegende Arbeit diskutiert...

Corporate scandals are reflected in excessive top management compensation and fraudulent accounts.

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

Democracy usually is identified by the right to vote. However, in recent times voting procedures have been criticized, as they seemingly do not guarantee that all parts of the population have an adequate voice in the established political process. We suggest invigorating an old but nearly...

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot...

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...