William McKinley, M A Mone, The re-construction of organization studies: Wrestling with incommensurability, Organization, Vol. 5 (2), 1998. (Journal Article)
This paper proposes a `re-construction' of organization studies in order to deal with the chronic incommensurability that characterizes the discipline. The paper begins by discussing the issue of incommensurability between organization studies schools of thought, arguing that it represents a significant problem with which the field must cope. Ambiguity of the key constructs that form the building blocks of organization studies schools is identified as one major reason for persistent inter-school incommensurability. To help deal with the problem, we recommend the creation of a dictionary that would include democratically produced definitions of key organization studies constructs. The procedures used by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to develop new accounting standards are presented as a possible model for the dictionary-building process. The role of the dictionary in reducing inter-school incommensurability is discussed, and possible disadvantages considered. While the need to formally create construct definitions is symptomatic of the low paradigm development of organization studies, the dictionary is envisioned as a tool for increasing the future paradigm development of the field. |
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Bruno Staffelbach, E. Deschwanden, Wie man Humankapital im Unternehmen aktiviert, io New Management, Vol. 67 (1-2), 1998. (Journal Article)
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G Schüpfer, C Konrad, M Wietlisbach, S Durrer, Bruno Staffelbach, Lernkurven für manuelle Anästhesieverfahren, Gesundheitsökonomie & Qualitätsmanagement, Vol. 3 (2), 1998. (Journal Article)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Zum Nutzen empirischer Forschung in der Unternehmensethik, In: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, p. 89 - 107, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Standesregeln als Instrument der Selbstregulierung von Berufsverbänden, In: St. Galler Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsethik, Haupt, Bern, p. 195 - 210, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Ethik im internationalen Management, In: Strategisches Euro-Management, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, p. 111 - 129, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Bruno Staffelbach, Martin Hilb, Ein Wegbereiter der Personallehre, In: Wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlagen der Personallehre , Haupt, Bern, p. 215 - 217, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Markus Leippold, Thomas Heinzl, Value-at-Risk, 1998. (Other Publication)
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Jörg Budde, Robert Göx, Alfred Luhmer, Absprachen beim Groves-Mechanismus: Eine spieltheoretische Untersuchung, Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Vol. 50 (1), 1998. (Journal Article)
Economic literature has proposed several incentive mechanisms in order to induce agents in divisionalized organizations to reveal their private information. Among these mechanisms the class of Groves mechanisms has the distinguishing property of implementing truthful reporting as an equilibrium in dominant strategies. However, critiques maintain that agents may collude and transmit false information to headquarters. This paper demonstrates that the agents' collusion game results in a prisoners' dilemma because agents cannot credibly commit themselves to play the collusive message strategies. The paper also outlines an organizational setting to enhance the plausibility of the fundamental assumptions underlying the Groves/Loeb approach, in which payoffs are observable ex post so that compensation contracts can be based on them. The task of informing headquarters is not assigned to the division manager himself but to a pertinent management accountant. This setting reduces the impact of subjective utility components of agents' payoffs so that the assumptions of this mechanism seem more realistic. |
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Robert Göx, Pretiale Lenkung als Instrument der Wettbewerbsstrategie, Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Vol. 50 (3), 1998. (Journal Article)
One of the major functions of transfer pricing is the optimal coordination of internal trade between responsibility centers in decentralized firms. According to standard theory the efficient level of internal trade is achieved by marginal cost pricing. If one of the firm's profit centers faces duopolistic competition on the final product market, the firm's headquarters can gain a strategic advantage when it systematically distorts the transfer price. Because headquarters cannot credibly commit to the equilibrium strategy that is induced by transfer pricing, the market outcome achieved by strategic transfer pricing cannot be replicated by centralized decision making. Since unobservable contracts cannot serve as credible precommitments unless they are employed for other than strategic reasons, the applicability of the basic concept is limited to observable transfer prices. When transfer prices are unobservable and the firms are facing price competition, however, the desired strategic advantages can also be achieved by a commitment to a full-cost system or by the delegation of the authority over the terms of internal trade to the producing division. |
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Annette Krauss, Credibilità delle riforme economiche: il caso della Tunisia, Relazioni internazionali : settimanale di politica estera, Vol. 45, 1998. (Journal Article)
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Annette Krauss, L'ajustement de l´économie tunisienne au libre-échange euro-maghrébin: implications institutionnelles, In: Politique economique vers l´an 2010 : association Europe-Maghreb, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Tunis, p. 65 - 84, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Die Universität des 21. Jahrhunderts: autonom und evaluiert, 1998. (Other Publication)
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Management of Change im universitären Bereich, 1998. (Other Publication)
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Evaluation von Hochschulleistungen: Wie können die Leistungen einer Universität erfasst werden? Teil 2, Sprungbrett (2), 1998. (Journal Article)
I m zweiten Teil der Antrittvorlesung von PD Dr. Andrea Schenker- Wicki an der Hochschule St. Gallen versucht die Autorin aufzuzeigen, wie die Leistungen einer Hochschule sichtbar und einem breiten Publikum verständlich gemacht werden und welche Methoden dabei zum Einsatz kommen konnen. |
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Andrea Schenker-Wicki, Evaluation von Hochschulleistungen: Fiktion oder notwendige Realität? Teil 1, Sprungbrett (1), 1998. (Journal Article)
Die Antrittsvorlesung von PD Dr. Andrea Schenker-Wicki an der Hochschule St. Gallen ist auch für die Studierenden von aktueller Brisanz. Werden sie doch laufend gemessen, während die Leistung des Bildungsinstituts als ganzes oder gar einzelner Professoren im Bereich oft haltloser Einschätzung verbleibt. Neben studentischen Anliegen gibt es aber natürlich vorallem eine Reihe von volkswirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Gründen, die for eine Evaluation der Unis sprechen. Diesem "Warum?" ist der l. Teil der Vorlesung gewidmet. |
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Simon Anderson, Jacob Goeree, Charles A. Holt, The War of Attrition with Noisy Players, In: Advances in Applied Microeconomics, JAI Press, Greenwich, p. 15 - 29, 1998. (Book Chapter)
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Jacob Goeree, Cars Hommes, Claus Weddepohl, Stability and complex dynamics in a discrete tatonnement model, Journal of Economic Behavior \& Organization, Vol. 33 (3-4), 1998. (Journal Article)
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Simon P. Anderson, Jacob Goeree, Charles A. Holt, Rent Seeking with Bounded Rationality: An Analysis of the All?Pay Auction, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 106 (4), 1998. (Journal Article)
The winner?take?all nature of all?pay auctions makes the outcome sensitive to decision errors, which we introduce with a logit formulation. The equilibrium bid distribution is a fixed point: the belief distributions that determine expected payoffs equal the choice distributions determined by expected payoffs. We prove existence, uniqueness, and symmetry properties. In contrast to the Nash equilibrium, the comparative statics of the logit equilibrium are intuitive: rent dissipation increases with the number of players and the bid cost. Overdissipation of rents is impossible under full rationality but is observed in laboratory experiments. Our model predicts this property. |
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Simon P. Anderson, Jacob Goeree, Charles A. Holt, A theoretical analysis of altruism and decision error in public goods games, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 70 (2), 1998. (Journal Article)
I study a budget-constrained, private-valuation, sealed-bid sequential auction with two incompletely-informed, risk-neutral bidders in which the valuations and income may be non-monotonic functions of a bidder's type. Multiple equilibrium symmetric bidding functions may exist that differ in allocation, efficiency and revenue. The sequence of sale affects the competition for a good and therefore also affects revenue and the prices of each good in a systematic way that depends on the relationship among the valuations and incomes of bidders. The sequence of sale may affect prices and revenue even when the number of bidders is large relative to the number of goods. If a particular good, say alpha, is allocated to a strong bidder independent of the sequence of sale, then auction revenue and the price of good alpha are higher when good alpha is sold first. |
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