Although the performance effects of multitasking were analyzed intensively in the past, little is known about the impact of the adoption time of multitasking on corporate performance. Possibly, the quantity of the reorganization is crucial and early movers experience a comparative competitive...

Erster zu sein, ist immer vorteilhaft - diese Sichtweise wird im Kontext von Unternehmen gewöhnlich vertreten. Die akademische Literatur bestätigt diese Annahme jedoch nicht generell. Im Gegenteil, als Erster zu handeln kann auch schädlich für Unternehmen sein. Die vorliegende Studie...

Modern hotel business models tend to split ownership of the property and its business operations. It can be assumed that a good-quality hotel facility per se can easily achieve high customer satisfaction. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of customer perception of hotel...

This thesis consists of one essay in industrial organization and two essays in non-cooperative game theory.

This paper develops a new analytical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

Previous scientific research on social structures has usually been linked to Cocitation and Coauthority study. Moreover, it has not focused on Business Organization Area. This paper uses a type of social relationship within the scientific community - the appointment of the PhD thesis examination...

The collection of requirements in the project is common practice. However, the requirements check serves the structured analysis and presentation of the requirements for project management in SMEs. Whether classical, agile or hybrid project management is applied is thus no longer a subjective...

The objective in this study was to examine whether a firm's economic/financial success can be associated with the application of certain HRM policies, practices and strategies. In this empirical study, an extended rationale borrowed from a configurational conceptual model was used in order to...

Hierarchical firms are enterprises with rigid internal job ladders. We examine the state enterprise as the prototypical hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers’ allocation of time between rent seeking and...

A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm?s organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...