People behave pro-socially in a wide variety of situations that standard economic theory is unable to explain. Social comparison is one explanation for such pro-social behavior: people contributeif others contribute or cooperate as well....

The literature on social preferences provides overwhelming evidence of departuresfrom pure self-interest of individuals. Experiments show that people care about others’well-being and their relative standing. This paper investigates whether this type ofbehavior persists when risk comes into...

Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out the existence of information negativeexternalities, and propose to destroy information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the lastyears many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...

In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individuallyasked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize thatconfronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behaviorcontributes to the formation of...

Bereits im Jahr 1993 hat das Institut Arbeit und Technik (IAT) eine empirische Untersuchung zu kooperativen Arbeitsstrukturen und Gruppenarbeit ind Deutschland durchgeführt. Die damaligen Ergebnisse sorgten für einige Aufmerksamkeit, zeigten sie doch, dass die Verbreitung von Gruppenarbeit...

This dissertation explores how companies can create customized development solutions that support the individual needs of executives and the overall corporate strategy. After the theoretical framework was developed by drawing on literature from the fields of executive development, leadership,...

As passenger numbers pick up slowly after prolonged crisis, airports are anticipating a return to the stable growth of the past. However, reality is likely to be different.