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Dissertation
Changing market conditions and the Brexit - Challenges for the traditional and the shadow banking systems
(2018-10-22)
Following the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the framework conditions for the financial sector, especially for banks and insurance companies in the Euro and US regions, have changed significantly. Banks and insurance companies in the Euro zone and the US are facing increasing regulatory requirements such as the Dodd Frank Act in the US and Basel II and III in the Euro zone. In addition, the environment for American and European banks and insurance companies has increasingly changed over the last few years as a result ...
Dissertation
Corporate Social Responsibility und Stakeholder
(2015-07-27)
Shareholdern, Mitarbeitern und Konsumenten kommt im Rahmen der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) eine zentrale Rolle zu. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund ihrer ökonomischen Bedeutung für Unternehmen und ihrer Einflussmöglichkeiten auf diese werden sie zu den mithin wichtigsten Stakeholdern gezählt. Innerhalb der unternehmensethischen Diskussion setzt sich dabei verstärkt die Sichtweise eines Business Case von CSR durch, demzufolge CSR generell und insbesondere bei diesen drei Stakeholdern an Bedeutung gewinnt und ein ...
Working paper
Das Sammeln und Kaufen von Contemporary Art
(2019)
Das Verhalten von Kunstsammlern und -käufern und die zugrundeliegende Motivation, gerade Contemporary Art zu erwerben, ist heute vor allem aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Perspektive von großem Interesse. Dies ist zum einen auf den in beträchtlichem Maße wachsenden Markt für Contemporary Art zurückzuführen.
Aufsatz
Consumer Preferences for Local Food: Testing an Extended Norm Taxonomy
(2018-04-24)
Consumer attitudes toward consuming and buying locally produced food are well studied. By contrast, the topic of consumer preferences for local food, with a special emphasis on the role of norms, still lacks empirical evidence. To study the influence of norms and morals on the intention to buy local food products, a quantitative study (N = 327) focusing on external social and internalized moral norms was conducted using the constructs of the theory of planned behavior in combination with an extended norm taxonomy and ...
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Trust
(2016-10)
Trust is the enabler of social interaction. Although the origins of research on trust traditionally lie outside the Information Systems (IS) domain, the importance of trust for IS research rapidly grew in the late 1990s, and it is still growing with the increasing ubiquity and advancement of technology in organizations, virtual teams, online markets, and user-technology interactions. Theoretically, the central role of trust is tied to the growing social change that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has ...
Konferenzveröffentlichung
Towards A Taxonomy of Text Mining Features
(Association for Information Systems, 2019)
Recently, text mining has received special attention from both researchers and practitioners, since it enables the development of intelligent and automated services. Text mining has been influenced by different disciplines like computer science, statistics, computational linguistics and library and information sciences. However, text mining features that evolved in one particular discipline are often unknown or rarely used in the other disciplines. No scientific feature framework exits which facilitates costly feature ...
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Sustainability Tensions in Supply Chains: A Case Study of Paradoxes and Their Management
(2018-02-06)
The comprehensive coverage of sustainability issues in a supply chain incurs goal conflicts—i.e., sustainability tensions—and is often limited by market characteristics, such as the availability of sustainable materials and services. While the mainstream business is prioritizing economic goals, a number of entrepreneurs are trying to move forward to more sustainable business practices for their own company and their supply chain. Fairphone represents such a case in the electronics industry, which is openly communicating ...
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Exploring the Supply-Demand-Discrepancy of Sustainable Financial Products in Germany from a Financial Advisor’s Point of View
(2018-03-23)
Although retail investors’ interest in sustainable investment is constantly increasing, German credit unions and co-operative banks offer few sustainable financial products. The purpose of the study is to explore the current gap between supply and demand of sustainable financial investments in German retail banking from a financial advisor’s point of view. We use qualitative analysis of interviews with financial advisors based on a Grounded Theory approach with the aim to identify the key causation in the cause-effect ...
Konferenzveröffentlichung
Not All Reviews are Equal - a Literature Review on Online Review Helpfulness
(Association for Information Systems, 2019)
The amount of online reviews is growing significantly. Between 2014 and 2017, the number of reviews for TripAdvisor grew by 300% and for Yelp by 208%. However, not all online reviews are equally valuable. Some reviews are perceived to be more helpful or trustworthy then others. Hence, plethora of scholars have investigated the role of online reviews and researched factors and characteristics determining its helpfulness. Nevertheless, mixed findings were found. Consequently, the purpose of our paper is to present a ...
Working paper
Transparenz im Markt der Contemporary Art
(2019)
Der Markt der Contemporary Art wächst enorm – die digitale Revolution forciert die Ent-wicklung. Doch von (Preis-) Transparenz kann keine Rede sein. Käufer und Sammler bewegen sich in einem “opaquen“ Raum – mit äußerst geringer Marktinformation.