Spatiality is an increasingly important dimension in the social sciences, as a new wave of recent publications shows. Intra-national comparisons have proved to be as fruitful as the better known inter-national analysis. Regional characteristics are found to have considerable influence on...

Whereas preferences of consumers are a cornerstone of market economies, preferences of employees e.g. regarding the preferred amount of paid labor are mostly not. However, we have found that differences between aspired and actually worked weekly hours have a serious negative impact on all three...

Die Autoren zeigen an aktuellen Themen der betriebswirtschaftlichen Organisations- und Entscheidungsforschung Möglichkeiten und Schwierigkeiten eines empirischen Zugangs auf. Der Teil Organisationsforschung enthält Beiträge, die neuere Organisationsformen empirisch untersuchen und...

We address the empirical question to which extent higher fuel efficiency of cars affects additional travel and how this behavioural aspect is modified by additional variables. The data set used to estimate a theoretical model of the rebound effect covers two panel waves, 1998 and 2003, taken...