At a time of intensifying uncertainty, managerial flexibility to adapt to changes in the economic environment is increasingly important. Different business locations, it is frequently argued, offer this flexibility to differing degrees, labor law being one essential factor in determining the...

We present a model of price leadership on homogeneous product markets where the price leader is selected endogenously. The price leader sets and guarantees a sales price to which followers adjust according to their individual supply functions. The price leader clears the market by serving the...

When randomly assigning participants to experimental roles and the according payment prospects, participants seem to receive “manna from heaven.” In our view, this seriously questions the validity of laboratory findings. We depart from this by auctioning off player roles via the incentive...

The under-representation of women on boards is a heavily discussed topic—not only in Germany. Based on critical mass theory and with the help of a hand-collected panel dataset of 151 listed German firms for the years 2000–2005, we explore whether the link between gender diversity and firm...

This study seeks to understand the relation between firm size and supervisory board composition. Specifically, we ask if and how firm size influences occupational and international background diversity in supervisory boards. Relying on resource dependence theory and theories of organizational...

Die Rolle der Arbeitnehmervertreter im Aufsichtsrat wurde vielfach untersucht, sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch. Studien zu den Effekten der Unternehmensmitbestimmung betrachten die Arbeitnehmervertreter im Aufsichtsrat dabei haeufig als „homogene Bank“ und ruecken deren Rolle als...

In Zeiten zunehmender Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit spielt die Sicherstellung der Beschaeftigungsfaehigkeit (employability) der Arbeitnehmer eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Ein zentrales Instrument in diesem Kontext sind Outplacement-Leistungen, bei denen freizusetzende Arbeitnehmer bei der Suche nach...