Im Verlauf fortschreitender Ökonomisierung und des in allen Sparten stattgefundenen Größenwachstums von Primärgenossenschaften ist hier und da in der Beziehung 'Mitglied Genossenschaft' ein Verlust von Gemeinschaftsgefühl und persönlicher Verbundenheit eingetreten. Damit geht gewöhnlich...

In Zeiten, in denen die Konsumenten immer sensibler gegenüber der Umwelt und der Gesellschaft werden, gewinnt auch das Konzept der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) immer mehr an Bedeutung. Dies geht mit verstärktem Wettbewerb einher, welcher Unternehmen auf Dauer dazu zwingt, sich von der...

In this paper I investigate the investment behavior of SRI investors based on SRI mutual fund flows. Specifically, I analyze how SRI investors react to past performance and ethical standards. This empirical study shows that over the years along with the development of the SRI fund market, the...

There are noticeable differences between the roles that various forms of credit financing play in family businesses and in other businesses. Family businesses take out more often bank loans specifically to finance investments and innovations, and they particularly often resort to the short-term...

Communication is at the center of any business transaction. Unfortunately until recently, communication has rarely been assigned its proper relevance in traditional business studies at German universities. This paper attempts to demonstrate why communication science can and should be an integral...

This paper describes psychological contracts and how they are created. Even though the phenomenon of the psychological contract can be observed in a variety of relationships, this paper solely discusses psychological contracts in business settings. The paper discusses in particular how...

This paper analyzes how social investors evaluate the integrity of social entrepreneurs. Based on an experiment with 40 professionals and 40 students, we investigate how five attributes of the entrepreneur contribute to the assessment of integrity. These attributes are the entrepreneur's...

Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Einbettung des Unternehmens über Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in das Wirtschaftssystem. CSR wird dabei als freiwilliges Engagement der Unternehmen verstanden, das dazu beiträgt, etwaige Lücken zwischen gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen und...

Applying the modern Property Rights Approach to depict employment and firm-internal delegation relationships, this paper addresses the question how to prevent corporate bribery. The analysis and the answers that follow take into account interaction effects between firm-internal delegation...