Suggesting a three dimensional model for virtualization, this paper examines the strategic movements companies may perform in order to become virtual corporations. Literature research and qualitative data from German banks demonstrate plausibility of the model and lead to specific questions to...

Dieser Beitrag skizziert ein wirtschaftsethisches Gesprächsangebot an die Theologie.Aus der Perspektive des ordonomischen Ethik-Ansatzes werden methodisch drei kategorialeDenkfehler identifiziert: ein intentionalistischer, ein moralistischer und ein individualethischerFehlschluss.[...]

This article discusses how the theoretical perspective of ordonomics provides a frameworkfor better understanding and advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship.From an ordonomic perspective, the concept of social entrepreneurship offers a semanticinnovation (at the ideas level) whose...

Der Artikel entwickelt in Auseinandersetzung mit Alfred Krupps Wohlfahrtsprogrammaus dem 19. Jahrhundert einen ordonomischen Beitrag, wie Unternehmen ‚Moral alsProduktionsfaktor‘ einsetzen können. Die These dieses Beitrags lautet, dass „CorporateSocial Responsibility“ als strategisches...

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites...

This chapter advocates the good scientific practice of systematic research syntheses in Management and Organizational Science (MOS). A research synthesis is the systematic accumulation, analysis and reflective interpretation of the full body of relevant empirical evidence related to a question....

The central purpose of this paper is to review higher education policy documents of the UKgovernment. For the analysis of recent and changing patterns of HE steering mechanisms, wewill first refer to the salient White Paper "Higher Education: a New Framework" publishedin 1991. However, the main...