Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulentaccounts, cause great damage...

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

The most influential theory of corporate governance, principal agency theory, does not take into consideration that the key task of modern corporations is to generate and transfer firm-specificknowledge.

This paper discusses the problems of social dilemmas arising if intangible firmspecific pool resources have to be supplied. The problem is not treated adequately in the dominant theories of the firm, transaction cost economics and the knowledge-based theory.(...)

Open source is a term for software published under licence that does not give any property rights to the developers. Recently, attempts have been made to explain open source as the result of the collaboration of purely self-interested, utility-maximizingindividuals.(...)

Vorliegender Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Verhältnis von Alltagstheorien des Managements und den Praktiken der theoretischen Forschung.