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Sociomoral atmosphere and prosocial and democratic value orientations in enterprises with different levels of structurally anchored participation

Weber, Wolfgang G.; Unterrainer, Christine; Höge, Thomas - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 171-194

This study examines effects of structurally anchored organisational democracy on perceived sociomoral atmosphere and on employees' prosocial, democratic behavioural orientations. Data result from the ODEM research project. Beside a description of the concept of sociomoral atmosphere, within this...

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The power of participation? Power relations and processes in employee-owned companies

Steger, Thomas; Hartz, Ronald - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 152-170

Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes within the organization. This is particularly true when the majority ownership of a company moves into the hand of its employees. Drawing on three case studies of East German...

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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Wirtschaftsdemokratie: Der Fall Hoppmann

Wächter, Hartmut - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 1, pp. 7-28

Konzepte der Wirtschaftsdemokratie wurden in Deutschland in den 1920er Jahren intensiv, vor allem von Gewerkschaftern und einigen Sozialwissenschaftlern diskutiert. Diese Konzepte gingen auch in Rekonstruktionsperiode in Westdeutschland nach dem 2. Weltkrieg ein. Dieser Artikel betrachtet eine...

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Occupational choice and the private equity premium puzzle

Hintermaier, Thomas; Steinberger, Thomas - 2002

This paper suggests a solution to what has become known as the private equity premium puzzle (Moskowitz and Vissing-Jorgensen (2002)). We interpret occupational choice as a dynamic portfolio choice problem of a life-cycle investor facing a liquidity constraint and imperfect information about the...

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Social capital in the urban informal sector in developing countries: Micro evidence from small textile producers in Bolivia

Annen, Kurt - 2006

In a setting with a low level of anonymous trust and without an effective shadow of courts, the possibility to return a low quality good can work as a simple mechanism to overcome moral hazard in buyer seller transactions. Informal firms – in contrast to formal ones – operate in the hidden...

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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence

Mosel, Malte - 2012

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...

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Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?

2003

This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...

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Die Auswirkungen der Subprime-Krise auf den deutschen LBO-Markt für Small- und MidCaps

Bannier, Christina E.; Müsch, Stefan - 2008

Since summer 2007 the Subprime credit crisis has been affecting the international financial markets. One of the consequences of the crisis was the collapse of the market for large-sized leveraged buyout transactions in late 2007 and early 2008. The goal of this Working Paper is to examine to...

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Task force: Corporate social responsibility in Japan und Österreich

Pascha, Werner (contributor); Holtschneider, Uwe (contributor) - 2008

This report approaches Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Japan and Austria. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a 'Task Force' seminar. It addresses empirically the issues of 1) public and private reporting of CSR, 2) case studies on responsible management in small and medium...

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Big Data in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen: Eine empirische Bestandsaufnahme

Vossen, Gottfried; Lechtenbörger, Jens; Fekete, David - 2015

Dieser Bericht untersucht das Potential von Big Data in und für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU). Dafür werden … untersucht, welche für KMU zu Tragen kommen. Der Begriff Big Data selbst wird genauer betrachtet und es wird erklärt, welche … die Anwendbarkeit hiervon auf KMU besprochen. Die Potentiale und Herausforderungen für KMU werden in technische …

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