Vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Komplexität in Unternehmensplanspielen.

Franchisee autonomy fosters system-wide adaptability and outlet-owners’ motivationbut also raises the costs from agency problems present in franchiseefranchisordyads. Advancing upon the understanding of agency issues involved infranchising, we test the argument that chains counterbalance the...

On financial markets many investment decisions are taken by groups and not by individuals. The evidence, however, whether groups better than individuals, is ambigous. We analyze the portfolios of groups and individuals in an asset allocation task on an experimental market. We find that groups on...

Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, was als der rote Faden in der Arbeit des Controllers(Weber/Schäffer 1999a, S. 30) anzusehen ist, gehört seit jeher zu den zentralen Problemstellungender Controlling-Forschung. Diesbezüglich haben Jürgen Weber und Utz Schäffervor nunmehr fünf Jahren den...

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

The laws of thermodynamics constrain transformation of materials and energy, and thus have implications for material and energy use in the economy, for environmental impact, and for policy. This paper provides an overview over the applications of concepts from thermodynamics in economics at the...

In der Wirtschaft wird noch häufig ein Mythos von Rationalität aufrecht erhalten, demgemäß sich Prozesse des Handelns und Entscheidens in Unternehmen ausschließlich an Kriterien der Zweckrationalität orientieren - und dies obwohl in der Organisationsforschung schon seit Jahrzehnten...

We examine in controlled experiments how individuals make choices when faced withmultiple options. The choice tasks mimic the selection of health insurance, prescriptiondrug, or retirement savings plans. However, in our experiment, the available options canbe objectively ranked. We ¯nd that the...

Transport policy research seeks to predict and substantially reduce the future transport-related greenhouse gasemissions and fuel consumption to prevent negative climate change impacts and protect the environment.However, making such predictions is made difficult due to the uncertainties...