Bei der Analyse der rückläufigen Innovations- und Wachstumsdynamik moderner Volkswirtschaften lassen sich neben ökonomischen Ursachen auch kulturelle bzw. ethische Einflussfaktoren feststellen. Edmund Phelps hat in seiner Theorie zur Innovationsfähigkeit der Marktwirtschaft die Bedeutung...

This paper is an overview of the achievements in the area of employee financial participation (EFP) during the last fifty years. It addresses the question of the extent to which EFP is relevant in today's world. EFP is distinguished from participation in management (industrial democracy), and...

The paper suggests a partial solution to the disjunction between the institutional environment and the institutions of governance by considering the budget constraint. This approach is put in the perspective of the comparative analysis of economic organizations as discrete structural...

Die Plattform ist in den letzten Jahren sowohl eine zentrale Institution als auch wesentliche Metapher der gegenwärtigen Verfasstheit westlicher Gesellschaften geworden, so dass von einem „Plattformkapitalismus“ die Rede ist. Nachhaltige Auswirkungen zeigen sich in verschiedenen Sphären...

This paper presents a brief account of the Hungarian renationalization and recentralization process under the 2nd and 3nd government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2010-2018). Under his autocratic rule, Hungary, the former leading reform country in Central and Eastern Europe has made a sharp...

We scrutinize the systemic consequences of state intervention triggered by external shocks in the transforming Chinese economy before and after the global crisis. We interpret investment dynamics using a comparative party-state model concept framework. We identify the overinvestment as an...

In this paper, we scrutinize in the transforming party-state system of China the subtle dynamics of enterprise adaptation to state interventions, which react to hardening external and internal constraints. We use a comparative systemic framework that interprets adaptation in the context of...

Das mit dem Schlagwort Digitaler Taylorismus verknüpfte Szenario einer digital gestützten Intensivierung tayloristischer Prinzipien wird gerne am Beispiel der Verteilzentren von Amazon illustriert. Die vorliegende Fallstudie bei einem deutschen Amazon-Konkurrenten verdeutlicht jedoch, dass...

For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement on how to define and measure the sharing economy, and no consensus on whether the sharing economy...

The paper applies the radical view of Monopoly Capitalism to the digital platform economy. Based on the seminal ideas of Hymer and Zeitlin that led Cowling and Sugden to define the large monopolistic firm as a means to plan production from a unique centre of strategic decision-making, we attempt...