Das dauerhafte Auftreten des Franchisings in der Realität belegt die Vorzüge der Vertriebsorganisation über Netzwerke selbstständiger Unternehmer. Allerdings existieren nur wenige Beiträge, die sich den strategischen Kernherausforderungen widmen, die Leistungsfähigkeit des Franchisings zu...

Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processses for inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunity to incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborative arrangements. In this paper, we first present three...

This study offers a new framework for organizing a motion picture in such a way that enhances its chances for box-office success. We combine and expand two strands of research for the movie making industry: the economic approach and the social network perspective. Specifically, we integrate the...

The quadratic scoring rule (QSR) is often used to guarantee an incentive compatibleelicitation of subjective probabilities over events. Experimentalists haveregularly not been able to ensure that subjects fully comprehend the consequencesof their actions on payoffs given the rules of the games....

In two-person generosity games the proposer's agreement payoffis exogenously given whereas that of the responder is endogenouslydetermined by the proposer's choice of the pie size. Earlier resultsfor two-person generosity games show that participants seem to caremore for eciency than for equity....

Along with incentive schemes, another well-established way to align the interests of principals and agents and, consequently, to reduce and eliminate biases and errors is the practice of monitoring. Considering the monitoring of experts, we evaluate the introduction of the most recent monitoring...

Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die empirische Analyse von außervertraglich wirkenden Mechanismen, die innerhalb der Organisationsform des Franchisings einer unkooperativen Ausübung von Entscheidungsrechten vorbeugen. Die damit explizit vorgenommene Betrachtung der Schnittstelle von...