Warum wird zunehmend Teamfaehigkeit in Stellenanzeigen gefordert? Wie wirkt sich dies auf die Bewerbungsentscheidung potenzieller Arbeitnehmer aus? Und welche Rolle spielt dabei die Einstellung dieser potenziellen Arbeitnehmer gegenueber Teamarbeit? Auf diese Fragen versucht die vorliegende...

A popular soccer myth states that teams affected by a sending-off perform better than they would have performed without the penalty. Based on economic theory, we analyze the course of soccer matches using data from the German Bundesliga from 1999 to 2009. The results show that sending-offs...

Whereas the theoretical literature on organizational reward systems repeatedly points to the importance of tournament models from an efficiency perspective, very few is known about the application and effectiveness of tournament compensation in organizations, especially when contestant...

Based on the acquiring-a-company game of Samuelson and Bazerman (1985), we theoretically and experimentally analyze the acquisition of a firm. Thereby we compare cases of symmetrically and asymmetrically informed buyers and sellers. This setting allows us to predict and test the effects of...