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Dissertation
Abuse, Competition, Cooperation: Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2017-03-31)
Summary
This work is composed of four separate essays. Chapter 2 introduces an extortive scenario into the experimental corruption literature. Chapter 3 looks at displaced aggression, using economic experimental methods. Chapter 4 introduces psychological underpinnings into the experimental economic literature on gender and competitiveness. And Chapter 5 offers a solution to a well-known problem in the cooperation literature.
Chapter 2, titled “Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence”, implements a ...
Dissertation
Was erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründungen ausmacht - eine analytische Gegenüberstellung ausgewählter Ressourcen erfolgreicher und gescheiterter Unternehmensgründungen im Bereich Greentech
(2017-11-28)
Die Zielsetzung der Dissertation besteht darin, zentrale Einflussfaktoren des Gründungserfolgs deutscher Greentech-Unternehmen zu bestimmen. Die gewonnen Erkenntnisse dienen der Ableitung von Handlungsempfehlungen für Gründer und andere Stakeholder.
Auf Basis einer explorativen Literaturrecherche entsteht im theoretischen Rahmen des ressourcenbasierten Ansatzes ein hypothetisches Konstrukt. Das Hypothesensystem unterstellt einer Teamgründung, dem komplementären Know-how der Gründer, der Innovativität, einer wachsenden ...
Dissertation
Sustainable and responsible investments & private investors in Germany
(2017-12-08)
Sustainable and responsible investments (SRI) have grown strongly over the past two decades. While corresponding investment volumes are still rather small compared to those of conventional investments, almost every conventional investment product has a counterpart applying a sustainable and responsible investment strategy (FNG 2016). In light of current developments, an increasing importance of SRI in the future can be assumed. By way of example, SRI can be an important instrument in order to achieve and implement ...
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Impact of ownership concentration and corporate governance on sustainability and stakeholder risk: An empirical Analysis of listed firms from USA, UK and Germany.
(Corporate ownership and control, 2017-03-05)
This thesis contributes to and extends the literature by observing the impact of corporate governance and different attributes of board effectiveness and firm level corporate governance mechanism on stakeholder risk. Like shareholders, stakeholders also face the agency problem and fear losing their hidden resources and efforts. This thesis defines this fear of losing resources and efforts and long-term sustainability prospects as stakeholder risk. Here, it is worthwhile to mention that this thesis also contributes ...