The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Chemnitz University ofTechnology organized the VIII Chemnitz East Forum, lead by Prof Rainhart Lang, fromSeptember, 13th to September, 15th 2007. Present and future themes of research ontransformations in the Middle and Eastern European...

This paper aims to identify the authority types underlying the Romanian leadership and theircorrelation with 1) CEO’s dominant motivation, 2) organization type of led organization and 3) thefield of activity the organization belongs to. The present study must be exclusively seen as aresearch...

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...

This essay argues that economic systems should be defined in terms of clusters ofcomplementary institutions. To show how such an approach can be carried out, I use acluster analysis technique and data on forty different economic institutions in OECDnations to isolate four quite different...

Conventional R&D-based growth theory suggests that productivitygrowth is positively correlated with population size or population growth,an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate R&D-basedgrowth into a unied growth setup with micro-founded fertility and...

• Grundlagen für die Persönlichkeitsentwicklungund für das Lernen werden in den erstenLebensjahren gelegt.• Umwelteinflüsse versus genetische Faktoren• Unterschiedliche Auffassungen über diemögliche Reichweite späterer Förderung – aber:je früher, desto effizienter!...

„Die deutsche Hochschule hat sich selbst verloren; sie spricht nicht mehr für sich. Sieläßt sich von "Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung" durch die Manege führen, alsgäbe es sie aus eigenem Recht gar nicht. Die Politik hat sich von der Hochschuleverabschiedet, obwohl sie täglich...