TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Fossen, Frank
A1  - Kritikos, Alexander
T1  - The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival
N2  - Risk attitudes influence the complete life cycle of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become self-employed, the effects on survival are not as straightforward. Psychological research posits an inverse U-shaped relationship between risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival. On the basis of experimentally validated data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we examine the extent to which risk attitudes influence survival rates in self-employment in Germany. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risk attitudes.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672681
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2010.02.012
SN  - 0167-2681
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barth, Christian A.
T1  - Lebensmittelmarkt und Nachhaltigkeit
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.dlr-online.de/
SN  - 0012-0413
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bach, Tobias
A1  - Jann, Werner
T1  - Animals in the administrative zoo : organizational change and agency autonomy in Germany
N2  - Although Germany does not figure among the 'forerunners' of managerial reforms of the public sector, it has a long tradition of agencies and non-departmental bodies at the federal level. Over time, the federal administration has developed into a highly differentiated 'administrative zoo' with a large number of species, questioning the image of a well-ordered German bureaucracy. The article addresses organizational changes among non-ministerial agencies during the past 20 years and ministry-agency relations, drawing on data from a comprehensive survey of the federal administration. The structural changes we observe are neither comprehensive nor planned; they are much more evolutionary than revolutionary, driven by sectoral policies and not by any overall agency policy, supported more by regulatory than by managerial reforms, and most of the changes are horizontal mergers or successions of existing organizations, while we find almost no evidence for hiving-off from ministries to agencies. At the same time, federal agencies report a lot of bureaucratic discretion, whereas they perceive substantial levels of 'red tape' due to administrative regulations. We also find that traditional, hierarchical modes of ministerial oversight are still dominating; only few agencies have performance agreements with measurable goals.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://ras.sagepub.com/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852310372448
SN  - 0020-8523
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abeler, Johannes
A1  - Calaki, Juljana
A1  - Andree, Kai
A1  - Basek, Christoph
T1  - The power of apology
N2  - How should firms react to customer complaints after an unsatisfactory purchase? In a field experiment, we test the effect of different reactions and find that a cheap-talk apology yields significantly better outcomes for the firm than offering a monetary compensation.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01651765
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.033
SN  - 0165-1765
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kupke, Sören
A1  - Lattemann, Christoph
A1  - Stieglitz, Stefan
T1  - Knowledge governance in virtual corporations
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-3-86573-532-4
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Müller, Claudia
A1  - Gronau, Norbert
T1  - Bildung von sozialen Netzwerken in Anwendungen der Social Software
JF  - Analyse sozialer Netzwerke und Social Software
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-3-940019-26-4
SP  - 1
EP  - 23
PB  - GITO
CY  - Berlin
ER  -