This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

This discussion paper reports and reflects on the reception of our article "Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box", which was published in 2009 in the Academy of Management Review and granted the AMR Decade Award in 2019. While we were invited by the editor of the journal to...

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...

’Nothing in business excites so much interest in the wider world as the pay of top executives.’ theEconomist wrote in a 2003 article titled ’Fat cats feeding - Executive pay’. Indeed, it seems thatthe dwindling heights to which CEO compensation has risen trigger stronger feelings than...

Most econometric analyses of patent data rely on regression methods using a parametric form of the predictor for modeling the dependence of the response given certain covariates. These methods often lack the capability of identifying non-linear relationships between dependent and independent...

The paper starts with an analysis of the decline of Russian state-subsidised all-risk crop insurance during the transition period, describes the reorganisation of Russian crop insurance started in 1997 and 1998, and compares the Russian experience with the Czech Republic's strictly commercial...

Zum 1. Januar 2009 traten in Deutschland die Regelungen über die so genannte Abgeltungsteuer in Kraft. Sie betreffen in erster Linie private Kapitaleinkünfte. Bereits ein Jahr zuvor wurden Regelungen über die so genannte Thesaurierungsbegünstigung von Gewinneinkünften wirksam. Beide...

Zum 1. Januar 2009 traten in Deutschland die Regelungen über die so genannte Abgeltungsteuer in Kraft. Sie betreffen in erster Linie private Kapitaleinkünfte. Bereits ein Jahr zuvor wurden Regelungen über die so genannte Thesaurierungsbegünstigung von Gewinneinkünften wirksam. Beide...