Managers sometimes sacrifice profits only to improve their relative competitive standing, a behaviour that is known as “competitive irrationality.” Previous research has generated a wealth of insight into the general foundations of this often dysfunctional type of managerial decision-making....

We add a new perspective to research on organizational response to non-paradigmatic change by studying an irregular yet increasingly important form of organizing: meta-organizations (MOs), i.e., associations whose members are organizations, rather than individuals. We use extensive revelatory...

Summary Benefiting from new Internet technologies and altered user behavior, social networking sites have become the poster child of a series of new web services that have been emerging with the advent of "Web 2.0". In this article, we follow a comparative case approach of two major German...

Prediction markets are an innovative forecasting method that has proven high prediction accuracy in many areas. The method is, however, far from being established since many organizations are still reluctant to use the method. In particular the trust in the forecast results is a key challenge...

The authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of traditional store-based and online retailing. To minimise the drawbacks, the emerging trend in retailing is a covergence of the two business models of retailing. Several examples of major companies in 'bricks-and-mortar' and 'online...

Angesichts der sich rasch verändernden Bildungsanforderungen in der Wirtschaft stehen die Hochschulen vor der Herausforderung, ihre Studienangebote den neuen Gegebenheiten anzupassen. In diesem Zusammenhang gewinnen internetbasierte Studienangebote zunehmend an Bedeutung, denn die...