Passion – in the sense of fervent commitment to action – and compassion – understood as sensitive openness for social and ecological concerns – are not a sure formula for business success. Whether social or ecological entrepreneurs, who find themselves under pressure from market...

This paper analyses the quality provision of interrelated market firms under different market structures both theoretically and empirically.A theoretical model is built,where a media firm offers newspapers in a primary market and advertising space in the secondary market.Furthermore,the media...

A stronger long-term orientation is considered a competitive advantage of family firms relative to non-family firms. In this study, we use panel data of U.S. firms and analyze this proposition. Our findings are surprising. Only in when the family is involved in the management of the firm is the...

This paper studies how national sentiment in the form of either a perception or a loyaltybias of bettors may affect pricing patterns on national wagering markets for international sportevents. We show theoretically that both biases can be profitably exploited by bookmakers byway of price...

In der öffentlichen Diskussion werden die Bezüge von Führungskräften mit der Semantik der Leistungsgerechtigkeit bewertet. Allerdings zeigt eine detaillierte Analyse von Prinzipal-Agent-Problemen in der modernen Wirtschaft, dass eine leistungsgerechte Entlohnung oft nicht das beste Ergebnis...

Steigende Kundenansprüche und zunehmender Margendruck führen dazu, dass das Klima invielen Branchen seit einigen Jahren immer rauer wird. So gehen 90% der in einer Studie befragtenUnternehmen davon aus, dass die Wettbewerbsintensität in den kommenden Jahrendeutlich steigen und der Kampf um...

The higher our aspirations, the higher the probability that we have to adjust them downwards when forming more realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We first develop a theoretical framework to identify the factors that...