A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

There is a longstanding concern that material incentives might undermine prosocial motivation, leading to a decrease in blood donations rather than an increase. This paper provides an empirical test of how material incentives affect blood donations in a large-scale field experiment spanning...

Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science consisted of little more than a litany of unrelated facts....

In the past few decades, so-called model organisms have become a cornerstone of research in the biomedical sciences. For the scientists, the model organism is both a practice ground for developing laboratory techniques, and a source of insights into common or even universal biological...

The main contribution of this paper to current philosophical and sociological studies on modelling is to analyse modelling as an object-oriented interdisciplinary activity and thus to bring new insights into the wide, heterogeneous discourse on tools, forms and organisation of interdisciplinary...

The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...

An apology is a strong and cheap device to restore social or economic relationships thathave been disturbed. In a laboratory experiment we find that harmdoers use apologies inparticular if they fear punishment and when their intentions cannot be easily inferred. Afteroffenses with ambiguous...

Die direkten Determinanten (typischer Fan, Trainer, Mannschaft, einzelne Star-Spieler sowie Management und Vereinsleitung) üben den stärksten Einfluss auf die Markenpersönlichkeit professioneller Sportvereine aus.Die Wirkung der Markenpersönlichkeit lässt sich mittels der Kongruenztheorie...