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...

We exploit an incentive change in professional soccer leagues aimed at encouraging more attacking and goal scoring to obtain evidence on the effect ofstronger incentives on productive and destructive effort. Using as control thebehavior of the same teams in a competition that experienced no...

This paper studies how national sentiment in the form of either a perception or a loyaltybias of bettors may affect pricing patterns on national wagering markets for international sportevents. We show theoretically that both biases can be profitably exploited by bookmakers byway of price...

In der organisationstheoretischen Literatur wird in der Regel zwischen den verschiedenenOrganisationstypen des Interessenverbands, der Verwaltung und des Unternehmens differenziert.(...)

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die internationalen Entwicklung von Arbeitseinstellungen auf der Basis einer groß angelegten Untersuchung.

In the late 80s and 90s economic science failed to forecast major systemic crises and collapses. The same may happen with the case of China. The paper develops an analytical frame of reference by applying the conceptual tools of the French regulation school ...