We identify a specific organizational resource in brokerage houses—information sharing among analyst colleagues who cover economically related industries along a supply chain. After controlling for brokerage selection effects, we show evidence consistent with the benefit of this resource to...

The study aims to identify the relationship between managers' mindfulness concerning business obstacles in an institutional context and the survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The investigation was based on the data gathered in Poland through two linked studies. A Kaplan and Meier...

Business organisations are excellent representations of what in physics and mathematics are designated "chaotic" systems. Because a culture of innovation will be vital for organisational survival in the 21st century, the present paper proposes that viewing organisations in terms of "complexity...

Dieser Artikel erläutert die Grundzüge einer ordonomischen Wirtschaftsethik sowie einer in diesen Theorierahmen eingepassten ordonomischen Unternehmensethik. Gestützt auf diesen integrativen Ansatz werden sodann drei Management-Kompetenzen identifiziert, die eine akademische Ausbildung für...

The article discusses service innovation in the investment banking industry. Service industry innovations differ from innovations in industries that produce physical products because they rarely have intellectual property and patent protections. However, investment banking services are typically...

The purpose of this paper is to research the meaning of the sustainable development in the innovation economy. Knowledge processes in an innovative economy seem to open up new and varied avenues to be explored in the direction of sustainability. Innovative economic theory in contrast to...

This document outlines a text-based firm-level measure of organizational culture, parsing information from 214,910 annual 10-K filings of publicly-listed US firms over the period 1994-2017. We utilize the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) to construct a dictionary of the...

Markets and firms offer contrasting methods to arrange production. In markets, contracts govern the purchase of parts and services that compose production. In firms, the shared values, customs, and norms coming from a corporate culture govern employees' joint development of those parts and...

This paper expands on the extent of the gap between how academic teaching view market transactions and how the market professionals actually work, offering a sensible way of closing as much as possible such a gap. Firstly, transaction costs will be analysed from both the demand and supply sides...

This is a draft of a chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Corporate Culture. It surveys some of the existing literature on the economics of corporate culture and discusses how the existing literature on the economics of organization can be tied to research on corporate culture or given a...