Hierarchie in der betrieblichen Organisationstheorie -- Hierarchiekritik infolge von Megatrends -- Pioniere hierarchieloser Organisationen -- Heterarchie als moderne Organisationsform -- Transformationsprozess: Überführung einer Hierarchie zur Heterarchie -- Moderne Mitarbeiterführung in...

We model and experimentally investigate effort levels in team production as a public good game with heterogeneous remuneration. In a hierarchically organized firm, team leaders (allocators) determine the effort levels of all team members. When the allocator receives equal payment or twice as...

Customers, competition and change have created a new world of business and is becoming increasingly clear that organizations designed to operate in an environment can not only be adjusted to work well in another. One of the most challenging work cultures for an organization is an authentic...

This paper advances the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework of regional inequality in China by using the most recent statistical data. We analyze the multi-scalar patterns of China’s regional inequality with GIS and statistical techniques, and demonstrate the significance of the...

Economics places a high premium on completeness of explanation. Typical general-equilibrium accounts of economic phenomena are preferred to partial equilibrium accounts on the ground that important interactions are necessarily omitted in the latter. A similar preference for microfoundational...

The paper advances the conceptual understanding of responsible leadership and develops an empirical scale of discursive responsible leadership. The concept of responsible leadership presented here draws on deliberative practices and discursive conflict resolution, combining the macro-view of the...

Why do family businesses exist? What factors explain their versatility, limitations and success within and across different industrial and geographic contexts? We develop a transaction-cost framework that addresses these questions. In doing so, we identify a class of asset we term generic...

We study workers' reactions to changes in the gender composition of top management during a merger or acquisition, finding that an increase in the number of female top managers within their occupation makes male workers more likely to quit, and female workers less likely to quit. These effects...