This paper argues that academics, politicians, and the media have six commonly held but misguided beliefs about corporate governance. While Armstrong, Guay, and Weber (2010) discuss some of these misconceptions, a wider recognition that these beliefs are actually “myths” is important. They...

Praxisorientierung ist ein wesentliches Merkmal des Selbstbildnis der wissenschaftlichen Disziplin Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). In verschiedenen Äußerungen und Publikationen von Disziplinvertretern - also aus der Innensicht der Disziplin - wird deutlich, dass diese die WI insgesamt und...

This paper deals with two major dilemmas in regional innovation policy making: The dilemma that theory does not provide sufficient answers for the formulation of specific innovation policy measures addressing the problem configurations of single regions and the dilemma that role models are used...

Is the economic and financial crisis also a crisis of Economics? From different perspectives, today there is rather harsh criticism of Economics as a Social Science. In this paper, first, some of the recent failures of Economics are discussed. Then some of the criticisms are taken up that are...