Standard economic models which focus on pecuniary payoffs cannot explain why there arehighly able individuals who choose careers with low pecuniary returns. Therefore, financialincentives are unlikely to be effective in influencing career choices of these individuals.Based on Akerlof and Kranton...

Drawing on Bem's psychological theory of self-perception, this paper presents and tests a model that examines the impact of business accomplishments and gender on entrepreneurial self-image and explores the definition of entrepreneurship according to Vesper's entrepreneu-rial typology....

In diesem Aufsatz werden zunächst Ziele und Richtungen sowie Ansätze und Resultate der empirischen Erfolgsfaktorenforschung dargestellt. Vor diesem Hintergrund gilt dann das Hauptinteresse den Erfolgsfaktoren im Marketing. Es zeigt sich, dass erfolgreiche Unternehmen über ein ausgeprägtes...

In diesem Papier wird die geschlechtsspezifische Verteilung von Führungspositionenin europäischen Banken untersucht. Hierzu werden Ergebnisse einer europaweitenBefragung von Personalleiter/inne/n sowie weiblichen Führungskräften in den jeweilsgrößten Banken der 15 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten zum...

It has been reported that there is dramatic increase of female workers into manager level jobs during last few decades in the US labor market. Using Standard & Poor`s Compustat ExecuComp database over 14 years (1992 - 2005), this paper examines whether the glass ceiling in the executive market...

The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation, and on female...

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...