Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die These, dass der unternehmerische Mittelstand durch Veränderungen des Wettbewerbsumfelds und durch steigende Wettbewerbsintensität in deutlich stärkerem Maße zu strategischen und in der Folge strukturellen Anpassungen gezwungen sein wird. Die Betrachtung...

To date, consumer behaviour research is still over-focused on the functional rather than the dysfunctional. Both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that service organisations are burdened with the concept of consumer sovereignty, while consumers freely flout the ‘rules’ of social...

The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next-generation offspring. In light of previous literature...

Hispanic workers now make up a majority of the labor force in North Carolina's Christmas tree industry. Data were collected from Christmas tree growers, Hispanic workers, and government agency personnel in 2001 and 2002 to analyze the factors that (1) contribute to the dynamics of labor issues...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

The integration of philanthropy into corporate advertising and sales promotion campaigns is becoming a popular persuasion tactic. Companies are now using product advertising to portray themselves as benefactors of charities and social causes. The underlying marketing premise is that a firm can...

Relationship marketing is emerging as a major theme in the marketing literature. Its central focus is the establishment, development, and maintenance of relationships between exchange partners (Morgan and Hunt 1994). The relationship definition of marketing states that the goal of "marketing is...

This study examines the time perspective (TP) and intertemporal choice biases that exist among professional financial advisors, and the extent to which those biases impact their decision making. Certified Financial Planners (CFP® ) from various types of firms (accounting, insurance, securities,...