Establishing the microfoundations of academic entrepreneurship requires closer scrutiny of a key actor contributing to this phenomenon--the university scientist. We investigate the sense-making that scientists engage in as part of their participation in technology transfer and postulate that...

In personalwirtschaftlich motivierten Studien muessen oftmals Persoenlichkeitsmerkmale beruecksichtigt werden. Die validierten Standardinstrumente der Persoenlichkeitspsychologie sind aufgrund ihres Umfangs nur bedingt fuer diesen Zweck geeignet. Wir berichten ueber die Adaption eines...

In the article “De-Diversification Activities of German Corporations from 1988 to 2002: Perspectives from Agency and Management Fashion Theory”, published in sbr in January 2006, Nicolai and Thomas offer some interesting hypotheses and empirical analyses on the occurrence of...