Cultural adjustment is considered to be a prerequisite for expatriate success abroad. One way to enhance adjustment is to provide employees with knowledge and awareness of appropriate norms and behaviors of the host country through cross-cultural training (CCT). This article analyzes the impact...

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Faktor Zeit in der internationalen Fernsehwerbung und seinen Kulturraum bedingten Unterschiede. In keinem anderen Medium spielen marktwirtschaftliche Regeln und Kontrollinstrumente eine so entscheidende Rolle wie in der Fernsehwerbung. Bei Kulturraum-?konomisch...

This dissertation consists of three essays on the role of social values in financial markets. Chapter 1 uses geographic variation in religious concentration to identify the effect of people's gambling behavior in financial market settings. We argue that religious background predicts people's...

"Land-use system dynamics and demographic dynamics are tightly coupled. In environmental science and studies of changes in land use and land cover, an unequivocal relationship is sometimes found between both systems, especially in coarse-scale studies. To obtain a better understanding of these...

The concept of luxury has been present in various forms since the beginning of civilization. Its role was just as important in ancient western and eastern empires as it is in modern societies. With the clear differences between social classes in earlier civilizations, the consumption of luxury...

We used and evaluated a simple real payoff choice investment alternatives to measure risk taking behavior of Malaysian youth and also applied this measure to examine differences in risk taking behavior of male, female, younger and older adult university students. Participants chose which of ten...

The concept of luxury has been present in various forms since the beginning of civilization. Its role was just as important in ancient western and eastern empires as it is in modern societies. With the clear differences between social classes in earlier civilizations, the consumption of luxury...

The present thesis consists of seven papers specifying and analysing models of direct-interactions-driven collective economic phenomena. Within theories and models of coordination in large decentralized market economies (and analogously also within theories and models of coordination in natural...