"This book grew out of a long-standing preoccupation with the problem of reconciling western liberalism with cultures, such as that of (even) Greece where I grew up, that had markedly different historical traditions, political behaviors, and social organization. Most available answers invoked...

und Gang der Untersuchung -- Grundlagen zum theoretischen Ansatz des Herdenverhaltens -- Informationskaskade bei Investitionsentscheidungen -- Herdenverhalten im Rahmen der Prinzipal-Agenten-Beziehung -- Zusammenwirkung der Informations- und Zahlungsexternalität im Rahmen der...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the making of markets. The paper identifies two ideal-typical processes in which markets are made - organized making and spontaneous making - which are often combined in reality. Organized making is defined as a process in which at least two actors come...

Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product architecture. In the past, research focused on management...