Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted...

Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...

In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where both groups decide on whether they prefer to be represented by either two independent craft-specific (professional) labour unions or by a joint (encompassing) labour union. Applying...

In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from the demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who determines the distribution. First,...

Einführung -- Die Bedeutung von Wissen für Unternehmen -- Wissensaustausch als zentraler Prozess des Wissensmanagements -- Unternehmenskultur – von anthropologischen Ursprüngen zum Unternehmenskontext -- Der interaktive Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmenskultur und Wissensaustauschprozesse...

Business Governance: Relevanz für Unternehmen und Definition -- Die Business Governance Formel: Situationen/Ziele/Instrumente -- Business Governance in der Praxis.- Leitfaden zur Business Governance Formel.