TY - JOUR A1 - Algieri, Bernardina A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Koch, Nicolas T1 - A tale of two tails: Explaining extreme events in financialized agricultural markets JF - Food policy : economics planning and politics of food and agriculture N2 - The substantial booms and busts in agricultural prices marked by extreme events across commodities lead to heated debates about the effects of speculative trading on commodity price fluctuations. This study proposes a new approach to understanding extreme events and boom-bust processes in agricultural markets. Using weekly futures data for twelve indexed agricultural commodities during 2006 to 2016, we find that extreme price changes, located in the 10% tails of the distribution, cluster across agricultural markets. We then implement a multinomial logit model to investigate which factors are associated with the propagation of extreme events. Specifically, we disentangle three transmission conduits. (1) The macroeconomic conduit captures the possibility that the synchronized extreme price events are generated by business-cycle driven demand shifts mainly in emerging economies. (2) The financial conduit refers to potential links between extreme returns and the increasing flow of money from financial participants into agricultural futures markets. (3) Finally, the energy conduit accounts for possible spillover effects due to oil price shocks. Our results indicate an important role of managed money positions and oil prices while the real demand channel remains mostly insignificant. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - Agricultural prices KW - Futures market KW - Tail events KW - GARCH analysis KW - Multinomial logit Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.05.004 SN - 0306-9192 SN - 1873-5657 VL - 69 SP - 256 EP - 269 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herbst, Uta A1 - Kemmerling, Birte Christina A1 - Neale, Margaret A. T1 - All in, one-at-a-time or somewhere in the middle? BT - Leveraging the composition and size of the negotiating package JF - The journal of business & industrial marketing N2 - Purpose: While industrial marketers have long bundled their products and services to sell them as packages, to what extent should negotiators also rely on packaging their offers? Clearly, negotiating at a package level can tax the cognitive capacity of the involved parties at some point. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impact of the number and type of issues that should be negotiated simultaneously to leverage the package strategy efficiently and effectively in multi-issue buyer-seller negotiations. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted and analyzed negotiation simulations with 676 students from 2 public universities. Findings: The authors’ results suggest that negotiating three out of six issues simultaneously is the least efficient but most effective strategy in multi-issue buyer-seller negotiations. Moreover, they found that bundling distributive and integrative issues is more efficient and effective than only bundling distributive or integrative negotiation issues in a package offer. Originality/value: Past research has examined the impact of negotiating a package as compared to each issue separately; however, little empirical attention has been directed toward understanding how to apply a package strategy in complex multi-issue negotiations. KW - Negotiation performance KW - Issue bundling KW - Joint negotiation outcome KW - Number of offers KW - Package strategy Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-12-2015-0251 SN - 0885-8624 SN - 2052-1189 VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 580 EP - 586 PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited CY - Bingley ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seckler, Christoph A1 - Gronewold, Ulfert A1 - Reihlen, Markus T1 - An error management perspective on audit quality BT - Toward a multi-level model JF - Accounting, Organizations and Society N2 - We take an error management perspective on audit quality. Drawing on 18 months of participant observations and 38 interviews conducted in a Big 4 accounting firm, we develop a multi-level model of error management. With this model, we propose how organizational structures, team procedures and practices, and individual cognitions and emotions interact to manage errors. The multi-level model of error management allows us to conceptually integrate previous behavioral and social research on audit quality, contributes to the rising accounting firm error management literature, and explains how and why two general approaches from the broader error management literature to errors that are usually considered as opposing each other, i.e., error prevention and error resilience, may interact and actually entail each other in accounting firms. KW - Audit quality KW - Error management KW - Multi-level model Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2017.08.004 SN - 0361-3682 SN - 1873-6289 VL - 62 SP - 21 EP - 42 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhu, Jinshan T1 - Assessing China’s price review policy on Clean Development Mechanism projects JF - European Journal of Law and Economics N2 - The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) allows developed countries to meet part of their obligational emission reductions by carrying out emission reduction projects in developing countries. China imposed a price floor to the CDM carbon credits produced in China through its price review policy. Scholars have not agreed on the purpose of China’s price review policy. With a theoretical model and a coherent empirical study, the present study shows that the price floor imposed by China’s price review is more likely to protect those domestic project owners against price discrimination, rather than to distort the CDM market. Nevertheless, China’s price review has its own flaws. Although a regression study shows month of approval, types of projects and location of project can explain 55% of price floor designation, the operation of price review remains quite random and unpredictable in individual cases. This would bring extra bureaucratically uncertainty on its way to curb market uncertainty. Its function can be fulfilled by alternative policy tools with better economic efficiency and legal legitimacy, such as mandatory price disclosure and trading forum, which doesn’t have such drawback, but still be able to alleviate possible price discrimination in individual cases. KW - CDM KW - China KW - Price review KW - Price floor KW - Law and economics Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-016-9550-3 SN - 0929-1261 SN - 1572-9990 VL - 43 SP - 285 EP - 316 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glaschke, Christian T1 - Auswahl und Einführung von ERP-Systemen JF - Die Rolle von ERP-Systemen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-95545-197-4 SP - 197 EP - 210 PB - Gito CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kailitz, Steffen A1 - Wurster, Stefan A1 - Tanneberg, Dag T1 - Autokratische Regimelegitimation und soziale Entwicklung JF - Zeitschrift für vergleichende Politikwissenschaft : ZfVP N2 - Gibt es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem sozialen Entwicklungsstand einer Autokratie und ihrem Legitimationsanspruch? Dieser Frage geht der Beitrag am Beispiel der Säuglingssterblichkeit nach. Unter Berücksichtigung von 321 Autokratien aus 120 Ländern im Zeitraum von 1960 bis 2010 zeigen sich Unterschiede in der sozialen Entwicklung zwischen sechs Autokratietypen mit verschiedenen Legitimationsstrategien: elektorale Autokratien, kommunistische Ideokratien, Monarchien, Einparteiautokratien, Militärautokratien und personalistische Autokratien. Insbesondere, dass kommunistische Ideokratien im Vergleich besser abschneiden als (nicht-ideokratische) Einparteiautokratien, spricht dafür, dass sich die Art der Legitimationsstrategie auf die soziale Entwicklung auswirkt. Allerdings sollte der Einfluss von Legitimationsstrategien auf die soziale Entwicklung nicht überschätzt werden, vor allem da sich die Ergebnisse im Rahmen eines Wachstumskurvenmodells als vorläufig erweisen. N2 - Is the social development of an autocracy linked to its claim of legitimation? This question is examined in the article with regard to infant mortality. Taking into account 321 autocracies from 120 countries in the period from 1960 to 2010, we find distinct patterns of social development for six types of autocracy with different legitimation strategies: electoral autocracies, communist ideocracies, monarchies, one-party autocracies, military autocracies, and personalist autocracies. In particular, because communist ideocracies are better off than (non-ideocratic) one-party autocracies it seems that legitimation strategies affect social development. However, the influence of legitimation strategies on social development should not be overestimated, most notably as the results of our growth curve models prove to be provisional. T2 - Autocratic regime legitimation and social development KW - Legitimation strategies KW - Autocratic regimes KW - Social development KW - Infant mortality KW - Legitimationsstrategien KW - Autokratische Regime KW - Soziale Entwicklung KW - Kindersterblichkeit Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-017-0330-4 SN - 1865-2646 SN - 1865-2654 VL - 11 SP - 275 EP - 299 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hinz, Carsten ED - Banse, Gerhard ED - Apelojg, Benjamin T1 - Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung BT - von der Notwendigkeit einer Integration in die Lehrerbildung JF - Technische Bildung und berufliche Orientierung im Wandel- Rückblick, Einblicke, Ausblicke (Sitzungsberichte Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften) Y1 - 2017 UR - https://leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/20-Carsten-Hinz.pdf VL - 133/134 SP - 167 EP - 175 PB - Trafo CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Fuhr, Harald A1 - Höhne, Chris A1 - Lederer, Markus A1 - Stehle, Fee T1 - Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries JF - Public administration and development N2 - Several scholars concerned with global policy-making have recently pointed to a reconfiguration of authority in the area of climate politics. They have shown that various new carbon governance arrangements have emerged, which operate simultaneously at different governmental levels. However, despite the numerous descriptions and mapping exercises of these governance arrangements, we have little systematic knowledge on their workings within national jurisdictions, let alone about their impact on public-administrative systems in developing countries. Therefore, this article opens the black box of the nation-state and explores how and to what extent two different arrangements, that is, Transnational City Networks and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, generate changes in the distribution of public authority in nation-states and their administrations. Building upon conceptual assumptions that the former is likely to lead to more decentralized, and the latter to more centralized policy-making, we provide insights from case studies in Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In a nutshell, our analysis underscores that Transnational City Networks strengthen climate-related actions taken by cities without ultimately decentralizing climate policy-making. On the other hand, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation tends to reinforce the competencies of central governments, but apparently does not generate a recentralization of the forestry sector at large. KW - authority KW - climate politics KW - decentralization KW - developing countries KW - global south KW - public administration KW - REDD KW - transnational city networks Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1814 SN - 0271-2075 SN - 1099-162X VL - 37 SP - 331 EP - 343 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - THES A1 - Mühlenhoff, Judith T1 - Culture-driven innovation BT - acknowledging culture as a knowledge source for innovation N2 - This cumulative dissertation deals with the potential of underexplored cultural sources for innovation. Nowadays, firms recognize an increasing demand for innovation to keep pace with an ever-growing dynamic worldwide competition. Knowledge is one of the most crucial sources and resource, while until now innovation has been foremost driven by technology. But since the last years, we have been witnessing a change from technology's role as a driver of innovation to an enabler of innovation. Innovative products and services increasingly differentiate through emotional qualities and user experience. These experiences are hard to grasp and require alignment in innovation management theory and practice. This work cares about culture in a broader matter as a source for innovation. It investigates the requirements and fundamentals for "culture-driven innovation" by studying where and how to unlock cultural sources. The research questions are the following: What are cultural sources for knowledge and innovation? Where can one find cultural sources and how to tap into them? The dissertation starts with an overview of its central terms and introduces cultural theories as an overarching frame to study cultural sources for innovation systematically. Here, knowledge is not understood as something an organization owns like a material resource, but it is seen as something created and taking place in practices. Such a practice theoretical lens inheres the rejection of the traditional economic depiction of the rational Homo Oeconomicus. Nevertheless, it also rejects the idea of the Homo Sociologicus about the strong impact of society and its values on individual actions. Practice theory approaches take account of both concepts by underscoring the dualism of individual (agency, micro-level) and structure (society, macro-level). Following this, organizations are no enclosed entities but embedded within their socio-cultural environment, which shapes them and is also shaped by them. Then, the first article of this dissertation acknowledges a methodological stance of this dualism by discussing how mixed methods support an integrated approach to study the micro- and macro-level. The article focuses on networks (thus communities) as a central research unit within studies of entrepreneurship and innovation. The second article contains a network analysis and depicts communities as central loci for cultural sources and knowledge. With data from the platform Meetup.com about events etc., the study explores which overarching communities and themes have been evolved in Berlin's start up and tech scene. While the latter study was about where to find new cultural sources, the last article addresses how to unlock such knowledge sources. It develops the concept of a cultural absorptive capacity, that is the capability of organizations to open up towards cultural sources. Furthermore, the article points to the role of knowledge intermediaries in the early phases of knowledge acquisition. Two case studies on companies working with artists illustrate the roles of such intermediaries and how they support firms to gain knowledge from cultural sources. Overall, this dissertation contributes to a better understanding of culture as a source for innovation from a theoretical, methodological, and practitioners' point of view. It provides basic research to unlock the potential of such new knowledge sources for companies - sources that so far have been neglected in innovation management. N2 - Diese kumulative Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Potenzial von bisher wenig untersuchten kulturellen Quellen für Innovation. Firmen erleben heutzutage einen ansteigenden Bedarf nach Innovationen um in einer immer dynamisch werdenden Welt im Wettbewerb nicht zurückzufallen. Wissen gehört hierbei zu einer der zentralen Quelle und Ressource, wobei das Wissen um Innovationen bisher meistens stark durch den Einfluss von Technik geprägt wurde. Jedoch können wir in den letzten Jahren vermehrt beobachten, wie Technik als Treiber von Innovationen zurückgeht und eher die Rolle eines Gehilfen übernimmt. Innovative Produkte und Services differenzieren sich zunehmend über emotionale und über Erfahrungsqualitäten. Diese Nutzungserfahrungen sind schwer zu fassen und erfordern Anpassungen im bisherigen Management von Innovationen. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Kultur im weitest gehenden Sinne als Quelle für Innovationen. Sie behandelt die Voraussetzungen und Grundlagen für "Culture-Driven Innovation" indem darauf eingegangen wird wo und wie kulturelle Quellen erschlossen werden können. Die Forschungsfragen lauten: Was sind kulturelle Quellen für Wissen und Innovation? Wo kann man diese Quellen finden und wie sie sich erschließen? Dafür beginnt die Arbeit mit einem Überblick zu den wesentlichen Begriffen des Promotionsthemas und führt Kulturtheorien als übergreifende Klammer ein, von denen kulturelle Quellen für Innovationen systematisch betrachtet werden können. Wissen wird hierbei nicht als etwas gesehen, das eine Organisation besitzen kann wie eine materielle Ressource, sondern als etwas, das erst in Praktiken erlebbar und geniert wird. Solch einer praxistheoretischen Sichtweise innewohnend ist die Ablehnung klassischer wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Vorstellungen eines rational agierenden Homo Oeconomicus. Auf der anderen Seite lehnt sie aber auch die Idee eines Homo Sociologicus ab, in dem das Handeln des Einzelnen hauptsächlich von der Gesellschaft und ihren Werten geprägt wird. Praxistheoretische Ansätze positionieren sich dazwischen indem sie den Dualismus von Individuum (Akteur, Mikro-Ebene) und Struktur (Gesellschaft, Makro-Ebene) betont. Organisationen sind demnach keine in sich geschlossene Einheiten, sondern eingebettet in ihre sozio-kulturelle Umwelt, die sie prägt und die sie gleichzeitig wiederum mitprägen. Im Folgenden widmet sich der erste Artikel einer methodischen Betrachtung dieses Dualismus' indem erörtert wird, wie Mixed Methods helfen Mikro-Ebene und Makro-Ebene integriert erforschen zu können. Dabei konzentriert sich der Artikel auf Netzwerke (und somit auch Communities) als zentrale Untersuchungseinheit von Entrepreneurship- und Innovationsforschung. Der zweite Artikel der Dissertation beinhaltet eine Netzwerkanalyse und widmet sich Communities als zentralen Ort für kulturelle Quellen und Wissen. An Hand der Daten der Plattform Meetup.com zu Veranstaltungen etc., untersucht die Studie welche übergreifenden Communities und welche Themen sich in Berlin's Start Up- und Tech-Szene gebildet haben. Nachdem dieser Beitrag sich der Frage widmet wo neue kulturelle Wissensquellen entdeckt werden können, geht der letzte Beitrag der vorliegenden Doktorarbeit der Frage nach, wie solches Wissen erschlossen werden kann. In dem Artikel wird die Idee einer Cultural Absorptive Capacity entwickelt, also der Fähigkeit von Organisationen sich gegenüber kulturellen Quellen zu öffnen, und die Rolle von Wissensvermittlern in der frühen Phase von Wissenserschließung betont. In zwei Fallstudien über Firmen, die mit Künstlern zusammenarbeiten, wird aufgezeigt, welche Rollen solche Vermittler übernehmen können und wie sie Unternehmen dabei helfen, Wissen aus kulturellen Quellen zu nutzen. Insgesamt trägt diese Dissertation zu einem besseren Verständnis von Kultur als Quelle für Innovationen auf theoretischer, methodischer und praktischer Ebene bei. Sie leistet damit Grundlagenarbeit um das Potenzial solcher neuen Wissensquellen für Unternehmen zu erschließen da diese bisher im Innovationsmanagement vernachlässigt wurden. KW - innovation management KW - Innovationsmanagement KW - culture KW - Kultur KW - intermediaries KW - knowledge KW - Wissen KW - networks KW - Netzwerke KW - mixed methods KW - communities KW - entrepreneurship KW - absorptive capacity Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-104626 ER - TY - THES A1 - Rhinow, Holger T1 - Design Thinking als Lernprozess in Organisationen BT - neue Chancen und Dilemmata für die Projektarbeit Y1 - 2017 ER -