Über bilaterale Entwicklungsbanken ist einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit in der Regel wenig bekannt. Dies gilt wohl für alle Länder, in denen es solche Finanzinstitute gibt. Besonders galt es aber 2008 für Österreich, als die Bundesregierung die Gesetzesinitiative zur Gründung der...

This Wuppertal Paper Environmental Protection in Learning Organizationshighlights the crucial methodological and theoretical assumptions which influencedand formed the design of the ADAPT-project about SMEs - Sustainability and theneeds of employees. Potentials for employment, qualification and...

Serious games can be used as self-assessment tools in recruiting processes. We develop a model explaining jobseekers' intentions to use these applications, which help them to gain a realistic idea of the job at hand and allows them to submit their application only if the job truly fits their...

We model self-control conflict as a stochastic struggle of an agent against a visceral influence, which impels the agent to act sub-optimally. The agent holds costly pre-commitment technology to avoid the conflict altogether and may decide whether to procure pre-commitment or to confront the...

Status-seeking behaviors are linked to executive career progression, but do leaders appreciate being surrounded by followers eager to move up in the organizational hierarchy? Building on the self-enhancement theory, we propose that leaders with high self-assessed getting-ahead behaviors give...

Drawing on identity and social comparison theories, we propose and test a model of motivation to lead based on two types of self-to-role comparisons (i.e., self-comparisons with specific leaders and with more abstract representations of the leadership role). We propose that these comparisons...

The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...

Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...