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Vertical Coopetition in Entrepreneurial Firms: Theory and Practice
(2014)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate vertical interfirm relationships with direct competitors – also referred to as vertical “coopetition” – in entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, this study explores the ... -
Does Climate Change Influence Guest Loyalty at Alpine Winter Destinations?
(2019)Research has dealt extensively with different aspects of climate change and winter tourism such as the impact on ski resorts and ski lift operators, adaptation strategies, governance at destinations and reactions of winter ... -
Borders That Divide: Education and Religion in Ghana and Togo Since Colonial Times
(2014)The partition of German Togoland after World War I provides a natural experiment to test the impact of British and French colonization. Using data of recruits to the Ghanaian colonial army 1908-1955, we find that literacy ... -
Sustainable Bonuses: Sign of Corporate Responsibility or Window Dressing?
(SPRINGER, 2014)Despite a strong plea for integrating sustainability goals into traditional corporate bonus schemes, a comprehensive implementation of these systems has been lacking until recently. This article explores four illustrative ... -
Relational effects of relative performance information: The role of professional identity
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2014)Prior accounting studies on relative performance information (RPI) have mainly considered the effects of RPI on employees' performance. This study extends this stream of research by investigating relational effects of RPI ... -
Winter tourism in Germany is much more than skiing! Consumer motives and implications to Alpine destination marketing
(2018)Winter sports tourism is a key economic factor in many mountain regions worldwide. Research to date has concentrated on economic and environmental questions related to winter sports and winter outdoor activities, with the ... -
Directional derivatives, subdifferentials and optimality conditions for set-valued convex functions
(2014)A new directional derivative and a new subdifferential for set-valued convex functions are constructed, and a set-valued version of the "max formula" is proven. The new concepts are used to provide optimality conditions ... -
Sticky cost behaviour: evidence from small and medium sized companies
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2014)This paper investigates whether cost stickiness occurs in small and medium sized companies using a sample of Italian nonlisted and listed firms during the period 1999-2008. Our findings show that cost stickiness emerges ... -
Innowacje w firmach rodzinnych. Paradoks możliwości i gotowości do innowacji
(2019)Biorąc pod uwagę znaczenie firm rodzinnych i znaczenie innowacji dla budowania skutecznej przewagi konkurencyjnej, nic dziwnego, że tak wiele pisze się w ostatnich latach o innowacjach w firmach rodzinnych. W szczególności ... -
Customer Perceptions of the Albergo Diffuso Concept: What Makes the Difference in Terms of Service Excellence?
(2019)This research introduces an innovative model of sustainable tourism called "Albergo Diffuso," a "made in Italy" concept of hospitality that exploits tangible and intangible local resources and is oriented toward the ... -
The value functions approach and Hopf-Lax formula for multiobjective costs via set optimization
(2020)The complete-lattice approach to optimization problems with a vector- or even set-valued objective already produced a variety of new concepts and results and was successfully applied in finance, statistics and game theory. ... -
When the market drives you crazy: Stock market returns and fatal car accidents
(2020)This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important–and hitherto neglected–spillover effects on fatal car accidents. Using the universe of fatal car accidents in the United States from ... -
History-informed strategy research: The promise of history and historical research methods in advancing strategy scholarship
(2020)Research Summary: The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. We discuss how and why history and historical research methods can enrich ... -
Hindsight bias e instabilità del contratto: la Cassazione torna sugli interest rate swaps
(2018)La sentenza che si pubblica sembra voler raddrizzare parzialmente il tiro rispetto alle sentenze della Cassazione che nel 2017 hanno abbracciato senza riserve la tesi secondo cui gli interest rate swaps con funzioni di ... -
Orders of Merit and CEO Compensation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2016)Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Governments worldwide bestow orders of merit upon their citizens as a recognition of distinguished service. In this paper, I study whether orders of merit can function ... -
Blockchain Startups and Prospectus Regulation
(2019)ICOs are a new way for blockchain startups to finance project development by issuing coins or tokens in exchange for fiat money or Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. In this article, we start from the current distinction ... -
Government awards as economic instruments of governance
(2016)This paper investigates if government awards can act as instruments that influence corporate behaviour. For identification I use the staggered introduction of orders of merit in six German states after the reunification. ... -
Internal Reporting with XBRL Global Ledger
(2015)When you think about the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), you probably associate it with the preparation of financial statements. But external reports aren’t its only use. XBRL offers the ability to codify ... -
A Malmquist Productivity Index for Network Production Systems in the Energy Sector
(2020)In this paper, a method based on network data envelopment analysis (DEA) is proposed to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making units (DMUs). In this regard, a version of the Malmquist productivity index ... -
An Integrated Data Envelopment Analysis and Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming Model for Linearizing the Common Set of Weights
(2019)The problem of ranking efficient decision making units (DMUs) is of interest from both theoretical and practical points of view. In this paper, we propose an integrated data envelopment analysis and mixed integer non-linear ...
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