When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...

This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify with the respective group. Inducing a trade-off between...

Vor dem Hintergrund des sich erheblich beschleunigenden Globalisierungsprozesses hat die interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikationsforschung in den vergangenen Jahren eine Vielzahl neuer theoretischer Positionen und anwendungs-bezogener Modelle hervorgebracht. Hierzu zählen unter anderem...