The „OlViO“ project1 deals with knowledge management and e-learning asintegral parts of organizational learning in virtual organizations. Some of theproblems encountered in classical organizations become even harder in virtualorganizations because their members are distributed and cooperate...

Als Medium für Lehrveranstaltungen bietetdas Internet gegenüber den klassischenMedien verteilter Lehre (Fernsehen, Radio)weitaus mehr Möglichkeiten zur Interaktivität.Diese neuen Freiheitsgrade könnten einerseitsdie bekannten Probleme verteilten Lernenslindern, andererseits helfen sie bei...

In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir, welche Ideen und Zielen wir mit der Schaffungund Unterstützung von Knowledge Communities im Kontext des Projektes„Olvio - Organisationales Lernen in virtuellen Organisationen“ verbinden. Wirbeschreiben dazu kurz die Metapher der Wissenslandschaft, gehen...

This paper investigates the influence of personality traits on occupational choice using data of theGerman Socio‐Economic Panel. We conduct multinomial logit analyses to differentiate malemanagers, professionals, technicians, clerks, service workers, and manual workers with respect totheir...

We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intensive. To test our hypotheses we use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany.[...]

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants ofa tournament are heterogeneous. We empirically test this prediction using alarge dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed theintensity of a game is lower if the teams are more...

We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players.At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stagetwo, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneouslyinvest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoreticallyand then tested by using...