Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen eines Praktikums beim DPV DeutscherPressevertrieb GmbH verfasst. Der DPV ist eine 100 prozentige Tochterfirmades Verlagshauses Gruner+Jahr und wurde im Jahr 2006 gegründet.Ursache hierfür war die Neustrukturierung der gesamten vertrieblichen...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of...

Platforms operators act as private regulators to increase usage and maximize profits. Their goals depend on the development of the platform: overcoming the chicken-egg problem early on requires attracting platform participants while quality becomes more important later on. Private regulators...

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive problems in commercial and reinsurance markets where intermediation takes place. We show that in markets with informed as well as uninformed consumers and heterogeneous risk profiles...

This paper describes the pay-for-performance sensitivity of the compensation and its disclosure as two dimensions of the board remuneration systems in the European countries.

Globalisierung und Deregulierung bringen den Unternehmen in vielerlei Hinsichtneue Möglichkeiten, ihr wirtschaftliches Handeln zu optimieren. Aber sowie durch diesen schnellen Wandel und die steigende Komplexität von Geschäftenmehr Optionen entstehen, werden auch immer mehr neuartige...

The present paper examines the relationship between fixed-term employment and jobsatisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP).According to theoretical expectations, fixed-term employment should be associated with arelative low level of job satisfaction,...

This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure timeinvention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor isaway from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive...