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17-04-2024 | Original Paper

Strategic motivations for corporate social responsibility: profitability or legitimacy?

Management research has broadly categorized strategic motivations for corporate social responsibility (CSR) as profit-seeking or legitimacy, which are at times conflicting and complementary. The nature of firm motivations has significant …

Author:
Patrick J. Callery

16-04-2024 | Original Paper

An economical single-vendor single-buyer framework for carbon emission policies

Previous research indicates that it is feasible to incorporate carbon considerations into production and inventory management by making informed decisions based on total costs and other relevant factors. In this article, the inventory model of …

Authors:
Abbas Sepehriar, Reza Eslamipoor

Open Access 04-03-2024 | Original Paper

Improving supply chain planning for perishable food: data-driven implications for waste prevention

Waste in the perishable food supply chain is a challenge that data-driven forecasting methods can tackle. However, integrating such methods in supply chain planning requires development efforts. In this regard, understanding user expectations is …

Authors:
Alexandra Birkmaier, Adhurim Imeri, Gerald Reiner

Open Access 26-01-2024 | Original Paper

Reevaluating the conglomerate discount in Germany: the role of design choices

Despite the current trend toward refocusing on the core business, the empirical results on the conglomerate discount are conflicting and provide opposing implications to managers as to whether they should pursue diversification or not. Prior …

Authors:
Marc Eulerich, Benjamin Fligge

10-01-2024 | Original Paper

The impact of football games and sporting performance on intra-day fan token returns

This study undertakes an in-depth examination of how football matches and related sporting performance influence the intraday financial performance of corresponding blockchain-based fan tokens. Utilizing an event study encompassing eight distinct …

Authors:
Lennart Ante, Benjamin Schellinger, Ender Demir

Open Access 28-12-2023 | Original Paper

Value creation in post-pandemic retailing: a conceptual framework and implications

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the retail landscape has undergone profound and enduring changes, necessitating a comprehensive examination of its implications for both consumers and retailers. This study provides a systematic analysis of …

Authors:
Monika Imschloss, Martin Schwemmle

Open Access 20-12-2023 | Original Paper

Academic success is in the eye of the beholder: understanding scholars’ implicit appointment preferences through adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis

Because scholarly performance is multidimensional, many different criteria may influence appointment decisions. Previous studies on appointment preferences do not reveal the underlying process on how appointment committee members consider and …

Authors:
Laura Graf, Marlen Rimbeck, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim, Isabell M. Welpe

Open Access 12-12-2023 | Original Paper

How do investor characteristics of business angels and venture capitalists predict the occurrence of co-investments?

Business angels (BAs) and venture capitalists (VCs) play major roles in the early funding stages of a venture. Although a significant proportion of venture funding rounds results from multiple investor types, most existing research takes an …

Authors:
Christoph Maus, Andrea Greven, Niklas Kurth, Malte Brettel

Open Access 04-12-2023 | Correction

Correction to: Endogeneity of marketing variables in multicategory choice models

Author:
Harald Hruschka

13-11-2023 | Original Paper

Is more always better with respect to entrepreneurial self-efficacy? An experimental investigation

This paper experimentally analyzes the effect of incidental emotions on destructive tendencies of the entrepreneurially self-efficacious. Subjects experience an emotion induction procedure that involves a visual stimulus triggering a negative or …

Author:
Hayet Saadaoui

Open Access 06-11-2023 | Correction

Correction: Leading-by-example: a meta-analysis

Authors:
Gerald Eisenkopf, Torben Kölpin

Open Access 02-05-2023 | Original Paper

How to prevent technostress at the digital workplace: a Delphi study

Technostress is a rising issue in the changing world of digital work. Technostress can cause severe adverse outcomes for individuals and organizations. Thus, organizations face the moral, legal, and economic responsibility to prevent employees’ …

Authors:
Michelle Berger, Ricarda Schäfer, Marco Schmidt, Christian Regal, Henner Gimpel

Open Access 01-04-2023 | Original Paper

Corporate digital responsibility (CDR) in Germany: background and first empirical evidence from DAX 30 companies in 2020

Corporate digital responsibility (CDR) is a recently developing new management concept in response to the increasing challenges caused by digital transformation. In Germany, this self-governance approach influenced the political discussions and …

Author:
Ute Merbecks

Open Access 02-03-2023 | Original Paper

A consumer perspective on Corporate Digital Responsibility: an empirical evaluation of consumer preferences

While digitalization offers numerous new possibilities for value creation, managers have to overcome a number of threats and obstacles that it harbors. In this context, the concept of Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) is of increasing …

Authors:
K. Valerie Carl, Cristina Mihale-Wilson, Jan Zibuschka, Oliver Hinz

Open Access 16-08-2022 | Correction

Correction to: The impact of Digitalized Communication on the efectiveness of Local Administrative Authorities – Findings from Central European Countries in the COVID-19 Crisis

Due to an unauthorized procedure in the publication process, there are errors in the original publication of this article. We apologize for these mistakes. The first error is in the second sentence in the fourth paragraph on page 7. The correct …

Authors:
Bernhard Hirsch, Fabienne-Sophie Schäfer, Aleksander Aristovnik, Polonca Kovač, Dejan Ravšelj

25-01-2022 | Correction

Correction to: CHRO firm dinosaur versus CHRO role gorilla: the effect of CHRO company and role tenure on firms’ social performance

In the original publication, the first author’s name has been incorrectly split up and published as two names, Nina Engels and Née Haarkötter, representing two authors. This has been revised by this correction article. The correct name of the …

Authors:
Nina Engels, Denise Fischer-Kreer, Malte Brettel

Open Access 24-02-2021 | Original Paper

Which investors’ characteristics are beneficial for initial coin offerings? Evidence from blockchain technology-based firms

Initial coin offerings have recently become one of the most important funding resources for ventures in the blockchain area. However, often ventures do not rely solely on initial coin offerings as funding source but receive also investments from …

Authors:
Christian Hackober, Carolin Bock