Switzerland. Swiss firms are mainly located in two cultural areas, the German and French speaking parts of Switzerland. Swiss …. Although we only find few differences, we observe that board composition is significantly driven by language-related factors … importantly, however, boards of these two parts of Switzerland are more likely to be structured as in their respective neighboring …

Switzerland. Swiss firms are mainly located in two cultural areas, the German and French speaking parts of Switzerland. Swiss …. Although we only find few differences, we observe that board composition is significantly driven by language-related factors … importantly, however, boards of these two parts of Switzerland are more likely to be structured as in their respective neighboring …

Publikation untersucht diese Fragestellungen anhand der Daten der Erhebung zur Sprache, Religion und Kultur (ESRK) aus dem Jahr …? Und decken sich diese Sprachwünsche mit dem Sprachgebrauch in den Unternehmen der drei Sprachregionen der Schweiz? Diese … Wünsche, eine Sprache aus beruflichen Gründen zu lernen. Das letzte Kapitel widmet sich dem Gebrauch des Englischen am Arbeits­platz. …

religion and national culture characteristics on the level of corporate risk-taking around the world and the channels through … influence of religion on corporate risk-taking is not felt, unlike when the main shareholder is an individual or a family. …

This paper studies the effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland hosts three major … native language groups which adjoin countries sharing the same native majority languages. In regions close to the internal … language border the alternate major language is taught early on in school and not only understood but spoken by the residents …

culture from other confounds, however, is often a daunting, sometimes intractable challenge for the working empiricist. To … meet this challenge, we exploit a cultural border dividing Switzerland in ways that are independent of institutional … of the border. Our results show multiple discontinuities and thus indicate a potential role of culture to shape …