The paper analyses the use of absorbed organizational slack in the context ofits structure of value. The advantages of medium term use are being opposedto the short term reduction of slack. On the basis of the cost function elementsit will be shown that instead of an optimal slack amount a...

The paper presents a variety of financial and non-financial indicators for the measurability of organizational slack.The different state of slack, identified and explained in the former paper part I. (State of slack, functions and antecedents of organisational slack), can be brought into direct...

This paper shows that, for CEU preferences, the axioms consquentialism, state independenceand conditional certainty equivalent consistency under updating characterise a family of capacities,called Genralised Neo-Additive Capacities (GNAC). This family contains as special casesamong others...

Die Frage nach der Kausalität fällt in die Methodologie. Methodologie ist in denWirtschaftswissenschaften ein Bereich, der sowohl bei Ökonomen als auch bei Philosophenkaum Beachtung findet. ....

This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averseindividuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is uncertain thanwhen it is certain. Our design includes three treatments: Baseline inwhich the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game is played; CertainPunishment in which the prisoner’s...

The object of the present analysis is organizational slack. The paper targets ata “slack type” which consists of basic information deriving from slack functions,slack conditions, antecedents of slack and dispositional requirements ofslack. The purpose of the analysis is the creation of a...

This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth modelwhere technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world incomedistribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristicssuch as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness, the...

Ein rationales Steuersystem sollte sich durch Finanzierungs-, InvestitionsundRechtsformneutralität auszeichnen und das Wirtschaftswachstum möglichstnicht negativ beeinträchtigen. Ferner muss eine Steuererhebung seitensder Finanzverwaltung und eine Steuerbefolgung durch die Steuerpflichtigen...

This paper studies whether menu costs are large enough to explain why …rms are soreluctant to change their prices. Without actually estimating menu costs, we can infertheir relevance for …firrms' price setting decisions from observed pricing behavior arounda currency changeover. At a currency...

Sick pay is a common provision in most labor contracts. This paperemploys an experimental gift-exchange environment to explore two relatedquestions using both managers and undergraduates as subjects.First, do workers reciprocate generous sick pay with higher effort? Second,do firms benefit from...