The paper presents a variety of financial and non-financial indicators for the measurability of organizational slack.The different state of slack, identified and explained in the former paper part I. (State of slack, functions and antecedents of organisational slack), can be brought into direct...

The object of the present analysis is organizational slack. The paper targets ata “slack type” which consists of basic information deriving from slack functions,slack conditions, antecedents of slack and dispositional requirements ofslack. The purpose of the analysis is the creation of a...

The paper analyses the use of absorbed organizational slack in the context ofits structure of value. The advantages of medium term use are being opposedto the short term reduction of slack. On the basis of the cost function elementsit will be shown that instead of an optimal slack amount a...

Es werden die Effizienzwirkungen der sogenannten Pendlerpauschale unter verschiedenen Szenarien untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass in Abhängigkeit vom Ausmaß, in dem Steuern einbezogen werden, unterschiedliche Entscheidungs-wirkungen, hier bezogen auf die Entscheidung über den Wohnort,...

This Working Paper gives insights into the concepts of productivity and efficiency. Both conceptsare popular measures for evaluating productive units, either on macro or micro level.This paper provides clear definitions for both concepts and outlines key areas of interest inthis context, such as...

1. Öffentlicher Dienstleistungssektor im UmbruchDer öffentliche Dienstleistungssektor, der inDeutschland im internationalen Vergleich(noch) einen hohen Anteil an der Dienstleistungswirtschaftaufweist, befindet sich imUmbruch. Seit Ende der 1970er Jahre wirdweiten Bereichen der öffentlichen...

We provide a stress experimental test of the ability of (a damaged based version) the ambient tax mechanism to induce socially optimal outcomes in a non-point pollution context. To mirror the features of naturally occurring environments, we consider a convex damage function, uncertainty in...

Whether incentive contracts perform better than trust in terms of productiveefficiency is usually explored by principal-agent experiments (mostinvolving only one agent). We investigate this issue in the context of athree-person ultimatum experiment, which is simpler and more neutrallyframed than...

Similar to Levati and Neugebauer (2001), a clock is used by which participantscan vary their individual contributions for voluntarily providing apublic good. As time goes by, participants either in(de)crease their contributiongradually or keep it constant. Groups of two poorly and two...

Dieser Aufsatz dient dem Versuch, ein konsistentes wirtschaftspolitisches Bewertungsverfahrenzur Analyse der Leistungsfähigkeit der genossenschaftlichen Bankunternehmung zuentwickeln. Dafür wird das auf linearer Programmierung beruhende Schätzverfahren "DataEnvelopment Analysis (DEA)"...