The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht anhand eines mikroökonomischen Formalmodells, weshalb Mitarbeiter aus individuell rationalen Gründen bei Change-Management-Projekten ihr berufliches Anstrengungsniveau reduzieren und weshalb sie vermehrt zu anderen Ar-beitgebern wechseln. Das Modell wird so...

Drawing on several theoretical perspectives (e.g., individual motivation, behavioral decision-making, social exchange theories, organizational justice theories, social cognition, institutional theories and neoclassical economics theories) from different disciplines (e.g., organizational...

This paper proposes an implicit control mechanism of managers inside the firm. We argue that the need to motivate workers may make it beneficial for a self-interested, short-sighted manager to pursue long-run viability of the firm. When the firm is in a stable environment, this implicit control...