In the article “De-Diversification Activities of German Corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory”, published in sbr in January 2006, Nicolai and Thomas offer some interesting hypotheses and empirical analyses on the occurrence of...

In their constructive critique Weller, Mellewigt, and Decker elaborate some concerns on our paper on "De-Diversification activities of german corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory". There are three main points: the operationalization of...

In the article "De-Diversification Activities of German Corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory", published in sbr in January 2006, Nicolai and Thomas offer some interesting hypotheses and empirical analyses on the occurrence of de-diversifications...

The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

Recently many scholars have paid attention to the concept of management fashions as a new field in organization studies. This research aims to emphasize the awareness of organizations about management fashions and how strongly organizations adopt new management approaches. As a qualitative...

The diffusion of fashionable management concepts is an important research topic in management and organization studies. Researchers have pointed out that various actors such as consultants, conference organizers and the business media comprise the so-called “management fashion arena” around...

Die Vitalitaet zukuenftiger CSR-Forschung haengt davon ab, ob es gelingt, ihren konzeptionellen Kern – die „business-society relations“ – wieder in den Mittelpunkt zu ruecken. Hierzu bedarf es der konzeptionellen (Re-)Integration der gesellschaftlichen Umwelt und der Mikro-Aktivitaeten,...

Human resource management in Germany is deeply rooted in its institutional environment. Thus, US style HRM cannot be simply transferred to the German context. Nevertheless, the German business system is not hostile to HRM principles. Rather, these practices have to be adapted to the demands and...

In the past, many countries have witnessed de-diversification waves. In this paper we illustrate that the same phenomenon can be observed in Germany. We discuss different theoretical explanations for the occurrence of de-diversification: the predominant agency theory approach and the less common...

Purpose – This paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) researchers apply institutional theoretical frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to explore the operationalization of meta-theoretical frameworks for empirical research which can often present difficulties in IS research. The...