Margit Osterloh, Bruno Frey, Irrweg variable Leistungsentlohnung, In: NZZ, p. online, 12 August 2011. (Newspaper Article)
 
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Silvia Teuber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Survival of matched-pair engineering companies in different institutional environments, In: Academy of Management Meeting. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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 Anselm Jakob Schneider, Democratizing Corporate Governance: Compensating for the democratic deficit of corporate political activity and corporate citizenship, In: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
In this paper we address the democratic deficit that emerges when private corporations engage with public policy, either by providing citizenship rights and global public goods (corporate citizenship) or by influencing the political system and lobbying for their economic interests (strategic corporate political activities). This democratic deficit is significant, especially when multinational corporations operate in locations where national governance mechanisms are weak or even fail, where the rule of law is absent and there is a lack of democratic control. This may lead to a decline in the social acceptance of the business firm and its corporate political activities and, thus, to a loss of corporate legitimacy. Under these conditions corporations may compensate the emerging democratic deficit and reestablish their legitimacy by internalizing democratic mechanisms within their organizations, in particular in their corporate governance structures and procedures. We analyze the available corporate governance models with the help of a typology and discuss the possible contributions of a new form of democratic corporate governance. |
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Christopher Wickert, Conceptualizing the Role of SMEs as Private Actors in Global Governance, In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Steffen Blaschke, Dennis Schoeneborn, David Seidl, Network approaches to organization and communication: Comparison, extension, and empirical illustration, In: Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
Over the last decades, various scholars have propagated a view of organization as essentially consisting of communication, which has frequently been referred to as “communication constitutes organization” (CCO). While this perspective has been greatly advanced in theoretical respects, its range of methodologies is still limited to the level of individual episodes of communication rather than organization in its entirety. In this paper, we present network analysis as an alternative for developing a suitable methodological approach. Based on a discussion of existing network approaches to organization and communication, we develop a new network approach that encompasses the fundamental assumptions of the CCO perspective. The proposed network approach places communication at the center of the analysis by turning the prevalent network perspective ‘inside out’, so that the vertices of the network represent communications and the edges represent individuals. We illustrate our methodological proposal with an empirical case study examining the dynamics of the organization as a communication network over time. |
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Anselm Jakob Schneider, Andreas Scherer, Globalization and the political role of the firm: implications for corporate governance, In: Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
Corporate governance practice is mainly centered on the protection of investors’ rights. How-ever, this view neglects the fundamental changes in the operating conditions of business due to globalization and the weakening of regulatory frameworks. Weak or absent enforcement of contracts, increasingly unfettered negative externalities of corporate action, and involvement of private actors in the provision of public goods change the role of business in a fundamental way, rendering it a political actor. Resulting in the extension of corporate power these devel-opments challenge the very assumptions of efficiency based corporate governance theory. Re-current misuse of power poses a threat to organizational legitimacy. Drawing on suggestions to restore organizational legitimacy by means of discursive processes, we argue that opening cor-porate governance to such processes is a suitable means to safeguard organizational legitimacy in a globalized world. |
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Christopher Wickert, Stephan Schaefer, Revisiting Corporate Sustainability: Towards a Critically-Performative Research Agenda. , In: Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2011. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Andreas Scherer, Emilio Marti, The Normative Foundation of Finance: How Misunderstanding the Role of Financial Theories Distorts the Way We Think about the Responsibility of Financial Economists, In: Society for Business Ethics annual conference 2010. 2011. (Conference Presentation)
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Bruno Frey, Ist eine tiefe Stimmbeteiligung schlimm?, In: Basler Zeitung, p. 12, 8 August 2011. (Newspaper Article)
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Thierry Alain Bücheler, Rocky Lonigro, Rudolf Marcel Füchslin, Rolf Pfeifer, Modeling and Simulating Crowdsourcing as a Complex Biological System: Human Crowds Manifesting Collective Intelligence on the Internet, In: ECAL 2011. The Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, MIT Press, Boston, Mass., 2011. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
Crowdsourcing, a real-life instance of human collective intelligence, is a phenomenon that changes the way organizations use the Internet to collect ideas, solve complex cognitive problems, and build high-quality repositories (e.g., Wikipedia) by self-organizing agents around data and knowledge. Many recent studies have highlighted the factors and the small sets of parameters that play a role when a large crowd interacts with an organization. However, no comprehensive simulation has yet been developed to incorporate all these parameters, investigate Artificial Life phenomena such as emergence and self-organization and potentially generate predictive power. Based on a presentation at ALIFE XII, this paper describes the development of a simulator for human crowds performing collective problem solving in a Crowdsourcing scenario. It introduces the mechanics of a multi-agent system (MAS) by building on insights from empirical science in several disciplines. The simulator allows running sensitivity analyses of multiple parameters as well as simulation of intractable interactions of complex networks of irrational agents. In addition, the paper provides a review of Crowdsourcing and human collective intelligence literature structured from an Alife point-of-view. |
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Jens Witkowski, Sven Seuken, David C. Parkes, Incentive-Compatible Escrow Mechanisms, In: Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, CA, 2011. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the seller
being long-lived and the susceptibility to whitewashing. In this paper, we introduce so-called escrow mechanisms that avoid these problems by installing a trusted intermediary
which forwards the payment to the seller only if the buyer acknowledges that the good arrived in the promised condition. We address the incentive issues that arise and design an
escrow mechanism that is incentive compatible, efficient, interim individually rational and ex ante budget-balanced. In contrast to previous work on trust and reputation, our approach does not rely on knowing the sellers' cost functions or the distribution of buyer valuations. |
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Bruno Staffelbach, Was Führungskräfte den ganzen Tag tun, In: NZZ, 32, p. 77, 7 August 2011. (Newspaper Article)
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Thorsten Hens, Franziska Pfister, Misstrauische Anlager flüchten, In: NZZ am Sonntag, p. 25, 7 August 2011. (Newspaper Article)
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Helmut Max Dietl, Heiraten ganz ohne ökonomische Absichten, cash zweiplus ag, cash.ch, http://www.cash.ch/news/alle/heiraten_ganz_ohne_oekonomische_absichten-1062568-448, 2011-08-02. (Scientific Publication In Electronic Form)
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Anton Fedosov, Jeffrey Blattman, Jorgen Birkler, Decreasing media breaks through content sharing in wireless networks with mobile devices, In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - MobileHCI '11, ACM Press, New York, New York, USA, 2011. (Conference or Workshop Paper published in Proceedings)
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Petar Ilic, Performance attribution of convertible bond portfolio, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Master's Thesis)
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Andreas Egli, "Executives' compensation in 10 of the biggest banks in Europe: An analysis for the past 10 years", University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Robert Schuchna, Analyst following during mergers and acquisitions, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Master's Thesis)
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Sandro Braun, Updated and New Analysis on Merger Arbitrage, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Master's Thesis)
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Thomas Walliser, How does the stock market perceive management transactions?, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2011. (Master's Thesis)
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