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Empirical evidence of a changing operating cost structure and its impact on banks' operating profit: The case of Germany

Diener, Florian - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 10, pp. 1-20

The financial sector is undergoing extensive changes and challenges that affect the entire market and infrastructure of financial service providers. Technological development leads to increased digitalisation and allows new business models to emerge. With regard to the banking sector, it is...

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The digital leader: what one needs to master today’s organisational challenges

Klus, Milan Frederik; Müller, Julia - In: Journal of Business Economics 91 (2021) 8, pp. 1189-1223

Executives are increasingly facing various challenges associated with digitalisation, especially the simultaneous handling of many topics, loads of information flushing in via digital channels, rapid changes, and finding the right balance between the old and the new. Building on a growing body...

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Tensions in sustainable warehousing: including the blue-collar perspective on automation and ergonomic workplace design

Gruchmann, Tim; Mies, Annika; Neukirchen, Thomas; Gold, … - In: Journal of Business Economics 91 (2020) 2, pp. 151-178

In many industrial countries, demographic changes towards an aging society go hand in hand with the need for ergonomic workplaces. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink workplace designs and work processes, particularly in industrial professions, such as logistics. As logistics activities are...

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The contextual effect of completion on the effectiveness of performance feedback

Nikiforow, Nicole; Wagener, Sebastian - In: Journal of Business Economics 91 (2020) 1, pp. 61-90

This study investigates the varying effect of performance feedback on performance, depending on the task context. Specifically, we analyze the state of completion (of a product or process) as an essential dimension of the task context. Using a laboratory experiment, we predict and find that...

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A Lean Six Sigma framework for the insurance industry: insights and lessons learned from a case study

Sandner, Kai; Sieber, Sebastian; Tellermann, Marleen; … - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 5-6, pp. 845-878

It has long been recognized in the literature that the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies can complement each other fruitfully. So far, however, researchers have not been able to derive definitive conclusions on how to combine these methods; furthermore, there is little research on how to apply...

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Volume or value? How relative performance information affects task strategy and performance

Schreck, Philipp - In: Journal of Business Economics 90 (2020) 5-6, pp. 733-755

Employees face volume–value trade-offs when they perform tasks with multiple characteristics, leaving them with a choice between different strategies towards the goal of maximizing the total value of their output. Either they produce many, less valuable units of output (volume strategy); or...

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Cross-country application of manufacturing failure models

Tomczak, Sebastian Klaudiusz; Staszkiewicz, Piotr - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 2, pp. 1-10

The post-Altman models suffer from moral amortization. This paper asks whether models developed in one country can be applied in other economies. One of the characteristics of the prediction model is that a date drives the estimation. Thus, the estimated model based on one economy is not...

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When wrong is right: Leaving room for error in innovation measurement

Svensson de Jong, Ilse - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 7, pp. 1-14

To date, measuring innovation has not been an exact science. As in many areas of organizational life, errors in … measuring innovation are a recurring fact. Innovation researchers and practitioners alike have become increasingly interested in … understanding the occurrence of organizational errors and how these errors affect innovation and its measurement. This empirical …

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The coaching black box: Risk mitigation during change management

Percy, William; Dow, Kevin - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-18

and its impact on risk mitigation, knowledge exchange and innovation in strategic renewal through the application of multi …

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A systems perspective in examining industry clusters: Case studies of clusters in Russia and India

Klarin, Anton; Sharmelly, Rifat - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-23

-public sector collaboration, support for funding and commercialization, as well as innovation corporate culture, when examining the … institutional pillars supporting the development and growth of industry clusters within the national innovation ecosystems. The … pillars underpinning national innovation ecosystems can be applied to an industry cluster level, particularly in emerging …

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