Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam, dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischen Semantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen – also Fälle, in denen Sozialstruktur und Semantik nicht zueinander passen...

In der Londoner U-Bahn warnen die Worte "Mind the gap!" vor der Lücke zwischen Bahn und Bahnsteigkante. Auch die Diskrepanz zwischen Sozialstruktur und Semantik kann zum Stolperstein werden. Wenn Semantiken ihre Passgenauigkeit verlieren und den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs mit Kategorien...

This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic - a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics - can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation,...

Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam, dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischen Semantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen - also Fälle, in denen Sozialstruktur und Semantik nicht zueinander passen -...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...