This study examines the potential health promoting and hampering effects of transformational, contingent reward and laissez-faire leadership across 16 countries with a multi-source dataset comprising 93,576 subordinates in 11,177 teams of a large international company. We analyze how leadership...

Jobs and organizations are changing more and more rapidly. These changes go along with increasing demands, job insecurity, and feelings of stress and overload. Although all economic sectors are confronted with such drastic changes and negative consequences, this book shows that there are of a...

We highlight that uncertainty about climate damages and the fact that damages will be distributed heterogeneously across the global population can jointly be an argument for substantially stricter climate policy even if uncertainty and heterogeneity in isolation are not. The reason is that a...

Je turbulenter und dynamischer die Zeiten sind, desto groesser ist die Suche nach Sinn und Orientierung. Somit gewinnt auch das Thema Fuehrung eine besondere Bedeutung. Denn ein zeitgemaesses Verstaendnis von Fuehrung hat sich laengst davon verabschiedet, harte Anweisungen oder nur materielle...

Recent developments in German and European accounting regulation show a growing relevance of accounting rules set by privately organised institutions. This article refers to those developments. It analyses the institutional legitimacy of accounting standard setting by private authorities, using...