Wir wollen in diesem Beitrag zeigen, wie notwendig theoretische Erklärungen der betrieblichen Personalpolitik sind und warum sie - trotz aller Notwendigkeit bisher eher selten sind. Weiterhin wollen wir unseren Weg der Suche nach Erklärungen darstellen: die Methode der Modellkonstruktion, der...

Attraction models are very popular in marketing research for studying the effects of marketing instruments on market shares. However, so far the marketing literature only considers attraction models with certain functional forms that exclude threshold or saturation effects on attraction values.(...)

This paper analyses the effects of different model specifications.

CII Introduction: increasing financial capabilityhas been a longstanding research theme forus – from our IPOD research into attitudes ofyoung people in November 2008 to the recentthinkpiece by Jane Vass of Age UK oninclusive design for an ageing population. Inthis latest thinkpiece, Carole...

The existence of trust in an IT-based service and its providers is an important basis for, amongothers, the decision to adopt and continuously use such services. It also improves the chances forthe successful collaboration in virtual teams and forming strategic alliances. Due to itsimportance...

The paper considers technology diffusion and develops a model at the level of theSME. Technology diffusion in the form of new or improved technology, thetransmission of knowledge or technical expertise is investigated. This involves spilloversthrough formal and informal networks enabling...

In this paper, we compare the empirical properties of closed- and open-economy DSGEmodels estimated on Euro area data. The comparison is made along several dimensions;we examine the models in terms of their marginal likelihoods, forecasting performance,variance decompositions, and their...

Since the Software Engineering Institute has launched the Capability Maturity Model almost twentyyears ago, hundreds of maturity models have been proposed by researchers and practitioners acrossmultiple application domains. With process orientation being a central paradigm of...

This paper analyzes return patterns and determinants at the Oslo Stock Ex-change (OSE) in the period 1980{2006. We nd that a three-factor model con-taining the market, a size factor and a liquidity factor provides a reasonable t forthe cross-section of Norwegian stock returns. As expected, oil...