Bruno Staffelbach, Business Ethics as a Challenge in Education, The Journal of the International Society for Business Education (193), 2002. (Journal Article)
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John C Edwards, William McKinley, Gyewan Moon, The enactment of organizational decline: The self-fulfilling prophecy, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 10 (1), 2002. (Journal Article)
Building on the enactment perspective and past work on the self-fulfilling prophecy, this paper explores how organizational decline can be enacted through self-fulfilling prophecies of decline. We present two self-fulfilling prophecy-based models of organizational decline, one in which decline is enacted unintentionally through the predictions of an organization's managers, and a second in which decline is enacted unintentionally through the predictions of external constituencies. We articulate propositions that capture the dynamics of each model and that are intended as a platform for future empirical research. We also discuss the implications of our theoretical framework for future theory development on the causes of organizational decline, and offer suggestions for managers who wish to avoid organizational decline. |
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Bruno Staffelbach, S. Renggli, E-HR meets old HR, Organisationsentwicklung, Vol. 12 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Bericht von der Zeitreise eines Betriebswirtschafters, In: Ökonomik im Mittelalter. Eine Zeitreise mit modernen mikroökonomischen Theorien, Chronos, Zürich, p. 9 - 24, 2002. (Book Chapter)
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Markus Leippold, Fabio Trojani, Paolo Vanini, Optimization of Assets and Liabilities, Proceeding of International Scientific School, In: Modelling and Analysis of Safety, Risk and Quality in Complex Systems, Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research, Saint-Petersburg, p. n/a, 2002. (Book Chapter)
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Markus Leippold, Paolo Vanini, Half as many cheers - the multiplier reviewed, Wilmott Magazine, Vol. 2 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
The financial industry puts the Basle Committee under strain to align regulatory capital with economic capital. This could be reached by allowing more flexibility in the choice of risk measure for regulatory reporting. Markus Leippold and Paolo Vanini show that if banks could use the theoretically more sound risk measure of Expected Shortfall, the three cheers of Stahl (1997) would be reduced to exactly half as many cheers. This would substantially decrease the regulatory capital in most cases. There is no dispute on the necessity of regulating the financial industry. Ideally, a regulation aims at maintaining and improving the safety of the financial industry. At the root of every regulation framework lies the basic idea of calculating a capital reserve as a function of the firm’s total capital and its risk. While the calculation of the firm’s capital is tedious but feasible, the measurement of risk is a difficult task. Consequently, regulators advocate normative and simplified rules applicable to all financial institutions. |
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Diethard Klatte, Bernd Kummer, Nonsmooth Equations in Optimization: Regularity, Calculus, Methods and Applications (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
The book establishes links between regularity and derivative concepts of nonsmooth analysis and studies of solution methods and stability for optimization, complementarity and equilibrium problems. In developing necessary tools, it presents, in particular, (i) an extended analysis of Lipschitz functions and the calculus of their generalized derivatives, including regularity, successive approximation and implicit functions for multivalued mappings, (ii) a unified theory of Lipschitzian critical points in optimization and other variational problems, with relations to reformulations by penalty, barrier and NCP functions, (iii) an analysis of generalized Newton methods based on linear and nonlinear approximations, (iv) the interpretation of hypotheses, generalized derivatives and solution methods in terms of original data and quadratic approximations, (v) a rich collection of instructive examples and exercises. It is written for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in various fields of applied mathematics, engineering, OR and economics, but also for university teachers and advanced students who wish to get insights into problems, potentials and recent developments of this rich and thriving area of nonlinear analysis and optimization. |
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Robert Göx, Kostenvorgabe, In: Handwörterbuch Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling, Schäffer Poeschel, Stuttgart, p. 1169 - 1177, 2002. (Book Chapter)
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Robert Göx, Jörg Budde, Jens Robert Schöndube, Das lineare agency-modell bei asymmetrischer information über den agentennutzen, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Vol. 54 (1), 2002. (Journal Article)
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Robert Göx, Capacity planning and pricing under uncertainty, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 14, 2002. (Journal Article)
This paper analyzes a capacity-planning and pricing problem of a monopolist facing uncertain demand. The model incorporates .soft. and .hard. capacity constraints (soft constraints can be relaxed at a cost while hard constraints cannot be relaxed) and demand uncertainty. The firm receives additional demand information within the planning horizon. The solution to the planning problem depends crucially on what is known about demand at the time of the capacity decision as well as the pricing decision. Historical acquisition costs of capacity are relevant for pricing whenever the same information is available for capacity planning and pricing. However, when the firm receives additional demand information before making the pricing decision, only marginal cost is relevant for pricing. Different types of capacity constraints, i.e., soft vs. hard, affect how much capacity the firm obtains, but not how the firm sets prices. |
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Thomas Keil, External corporate venturing: strategic renewal in rapidly changing industries, Quorum Books, Westport, Conn., 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
Examines how external corporate venturing can enhance organizational renewal, and a practical guide to help management apply it within their own organizations. Keil's succinct, readable study shows how major players in the information and communication technology industries have used corporate venture capital, alliances, acquisitions or spin-offs to achieve remarkable strategic self-renewal. Based on indepth empirical research, Keil clarifies and emphasizes the role that external corporate venturing plays as a mechanism to acquire new knowledge and to advance corporate strategic capabilities. It supports the creation of new business opportunities in other ways too. It creates new entry options, it opens access to other complementary means of renewal, it helps to control critical resources, and it accelerates the growth of organizations generally. For corporate executives, scholars, researchers, and graduate students, Keil's book is a major contribution to our understanding of external corporate venturing, and a highly practical guide to help management use it in the strategic renewal of their own organizations. Keil argues that an ability to do external venturing is an important factor in the successful development and growth of any organization. He conceptualizes the process into two main elements. One is the creation of what he sees as a shared context that bridges the gap between the corporation and the community in which it resides. Bridging supports knowledge transfer and the formation of new cognitive intra-corporate frameworks. The second element is the process of executing relationships efficiently, to make possible the rapid development of venturing opportunities. With case studies and lucid explanations, Keil shows how other corporations create and use a variety of connected learning processes to build their own venturing capabilities as well. |
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Thomas Keil, De-facto standardization through alliances: lessons from Bluetooth, Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 26 (3-4), 2002. (Journal Article)
This paper discusses standardization of information and communications technologies. Standardization has become a domain of firm strategizing with information and communication technology standards being increasingly created through semi-open alliances. The paper analyzes the strategic logic of such standardization alliances based on an in-depth case study of the Bluetooth initiative. Similar to other successful standards described in the standardization literature, Bluetooth has been rapidly adopted by a large number of companies. The author argues that at least part of the success is due to the structure and design of the standardization alliance that promoted Bluetooth. |
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Modellierung 2002: Modellierung in der Praxis - Modellierung für die Praxis, Edited by: Martin Glinz, Günter Müller-Luschnat, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, 2002. (Proceedings)
The annual workshop on modeling which is organized by seven GI special interest groups provides a forum for interdisciplinary exchange of approaches and experience in the field of modeling. This volume contains the proceedings of the 2002 workshop in Tutzing. The contributions cover a broad range of topics, including foundations of modeling, modeling and XML, problems of modeling in practice, product and process modeling, presentation models and modeling in software development. (in German) |
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Kjell G. Nyborg, Kristian Rydqvist, Suresh M Sundaresan, Bidder Behavior in Multiunit Auctions: Evidencefrom Swedish Treasury Auctions, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 110 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
We analyze a unique data set on multiunit auctions, which contains the actual demand schedules of the bidders as well as the auctionawards in over 400 Swedish Treasury auctions. First, we document that bidders vary their prices, bid dispersion, and the quantity demanded in response to increased uncertainty at the time of bidding. Second,we find that bid shading can be explained by a winner 19s curse 13driven model in which each bidder submits only one bid, despite the fact that the bidders in our data set use much richer bidding strategies. |
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Umfassende Wirkungsprüfung staatlicher Subventionen: ein Konzept am Beispiel des Bildungsbereichs, Verwaltung & Management, Vol. 8 (2), 2002. (Journal Article)
Um in einer zunehmend vernetzten und globalisierten Welt zu bestehen, müssen Chancen und Risiken beurteilt werden können. Dies gilt nicht nur für den privaten, sondern insbesondere auch für den öffentlichen Sektor. Da herkömmliche Prüfverfahren und die in der klassischen Betriebswirtschaftslehre dafür vorgesehenen Instrumente wie Betriebs- und Erfolgsrechnung nicht ausreichen, müssen neue Verfahren entwickelt werden, welche geeignet sind, die tatsächlichen Leistungen und deren Wirkungen in einem nicht-monetären Umfeld zu erfassen. |
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Ramazan Gençay, Faruk Selçuk, Brandon Whitcher, An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics, Academic Press, San Diego, 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods in Finance and Economics presents a unified view of filtering techniques with a special focus on wavelet analysis in finance and economics. It emphasizes the methods and explanations of the theory that underlies them. It also concentrates on exactly what wavelet analysis (and filtering methods in general) can reveal about a time series. It offers testing issues which can be performed with wavelets in conjunction with the multi-resolution analysis. The descriptive focus of the book avoids proofs and provides easy access to a wide spectrum of parametric and nonparametric filtering methods. Examples and empirical applications will show readers the capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages of each method. |
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Finanzierungs- und Steuerungssysteme der universitären Hochschulen in der Schweiz, Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung (4), 2002. (Journal Article)
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Ralph Lehmann, Charismatische Unternehmungsführung, Haupt Verlag, Bern/Stuttgart/Wien, 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
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Barbara Brenzikofer, Reputation von Professoren: Implikationen für das Human Resource Management von Universitäten, Rainer Hampp Verlag, München/Mering, 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Marcel Senn, Ökonomik im Mittelalter: Eine Zeitreise mit modernen mikroökonomischen Theorien, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, 2002. (Book/Research Monograph)
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