It is discussed whether hybrid strategies are beneficial or detrimental to a firm’s performance, because hybrid strategies lead to organizational tensions that arise from the simultaneous pursuit of distinct strategic activities. However, existing studies on the relationship between hybrid...

This paper reports the findings of two empirical studies on the value-added of venture capital with special attention on promoting internationalisation of start-up firms. The first study is based on a survey of Finnish (and a few cross-border) venture capital organisations on the value-adding...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...

Leistungsorientierte Entgeltsysteme müssen auf soliden Leistungsbeurteilungen beruhen, damit sie als gerecht wahrgenommen werden. Anhand der Kriterien der klassischen Testtheorie wird aufgezeigt, wie sich diese Forderung in der praktischen Gestaltung von Leistungsbeurteilungssystemen auswirkt....

Diese Studie mit 127 Entsandten betrachtet im Unterschied zu bisherigen Studien soziale Unterstützung im Kontext von Auslandsentsendungen differenzierter und untersucht deren Auswirkung auf Zufriedenheit und Stresserleben. Es wurde nach Quelle - Familie, Freunde, Arbeitskollegen und Vorgesetzte...

Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. Using unique data on the search behaviour of job...

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...

The main focus of this paper is the question if the success of regional integration organisation in developing countries is, in fact, dependent on factors like similarity of their economic structure, market size or lack of committment. It is shown that there are also other more important...

German wind power development is a technological success story but has involved very high subsidies. Germany was a latecomer in wind power but specific political conditions in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the implementation of the feed in tariff regime which has characterised Germany...