Management, Organisation und ökonomische Analyse

Index based insurance schemes can play a vital role in insuring poor people in developing countries against a multitude of risk. However, the concept doesn’t go along without any obstacles. Matthias Rödl provides a theoretical framework of index …

Steffen Reik untersucht die Heterogenität der Kunden in Bezug auf ihre Informationsasymmetrie zu den Verkäufern eines Vertrauensgutes. Er beweist, dass die Existenz informierter Kunden nicht zwangsläufig zu effizienteren Märkten führt, sondern …

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during M&A processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a princi

Die elektronische Mundpropaganda beeinflusst maßgeblich die Erwartungsbildung der Konsumenten, sodass Firmen starke Anreize haben, die Informationskanäle strategisch zu manipulieren. Friedrich Droste erforscht die bislang in der theoretischen Forschu

Gerd Schwarz analyzes the pros and cons of shared service centers for the implementation of IT, finance, personnel and purchasing processes and make design suggestions on the empirical study of American public companies are based at 72. It describes

The constantly growing number of arising referee corruption cases as well as their damage to the integrity of the sports society raises the question of why sports associations started availing themselves of referees as an instrument of contest design

Dass unsere an natürlichen Ressourcen arme Volkswirtschaft ihr hohes Wohlstandsni­ veau im verschärften globalen Wettbewerb nur in dem Maße aufrecht erhalten kann, als es ihren Arbeitskräften gelingt, überlegene Qualifikationen zu entwickeln, ist ein

Over the last years stock options have become an integral part of the compensation of senior managers in Germany: Originating in the USA in the 1950s, this form of compensation gained increasing popularity among German corporations during the …