TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Jäkel, Tim T1 - Competing, collaborating or controlling? - Comparing benchmarking in European local government JF - Public money & management : integrating theory and practice in public management N2 - The way that local authorities in OECD countries compare and benchmark their performance varies widely. This paper explains some of the reasons behind the variations. The current local government benchmarking schemes in Europe their governance, coverage and impactlargely depend on the institutional characteristics of the respective administrative and local government systems (in other words, the starting conditions). There are signs that, as a result of the fiscal crisis in Europe and need to cut public sector costs, many countries (but not England and Wales) are leaning towards compulsory large-scale benchmarking projects. KW - Benchmarking KW - cross-country comparison KW - local government KW - performance assessment KW - public sector reform Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2013.799815 SN - 0954-0962 VL - 33 IS - 4 SP - 269 EP - 276 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Peyer, Mathias A1 - Paulssen, Marcel T1 - Consciousness for fair consumption - conceptualization, scale development and empirical validation JF - International journal of consumer studies N2 - Sustainable consumption means that consumers act in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Compared with the vast amount of studies concerning environmentally conscious consumer behaviour, relatively little is known about socially conscious consumption. The present paper focuses on fair consumption as an important aspect of social consumption. In our study, consciousness for fair consumption (CFC) is defined as a latent disposition of consumers to prefer products that are produced and traded in compliance with fair labour and business practices. A scale to measure CFC was conceptualized and tested in three independent empirical studies. Two studies were conducted at European universities (2010 and 2012) and used 352 and 362 undergraduate business students respectively. The third study, conducted in 2011, used 141 employees at a European university. The results confirmed the reliability and validity of the new CFC scale across samples. While being moderately related to other aspects of sustainable consumption such as ecological concern and moral reasoning, CFC was significantly distinct from those concepts. Most importantly, it was established that the CFC, as measured by the new CFC scale, is a strong determinant of consumption of fair trade products that has been neglected in existing research. KW - Sustainable consumption KW - socially conscious consumption KW - consciousness for fair consumption KW - scale development KW - fair trade Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12030 SN - 1470-6423 VL - 37 IS - 5 SP - 546 EP - 555 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mietzner, Dana A1 - Kamprath, Martin T1 - A competence portfolio for professionals in the creative industries JF - Creativity and innovation management N2 - Within the last decade, the role of the Creative Industries has grown to become an important part of the economic system. The increasing acceleration of new developments in media and ICT technologies greatly affected the Creative Industries' dynamic with a direct impact on the people working in this sector. Since only a few studies focus on competences needs, more or less isolated from the trends within the industry, we address the topic of individual competence shifts in the turbulent environment of the Creative Industries. We investigated the trends regarding competence shifts and their implications as well as the competences which are essential for creative professionals. We conducted a broad literature review as well as a qualitative study, which includes interviews and workshops with industry experts on trends within the Creative Industries and corresponding dimensions and demands for competences. We present four requirements that call for shifts in the education of competences. Based on the discussion of requirements, we present a competence portfolio for the Creative Industries along the dimensions of professional, methodological and personal-social competences. The portfolio clearly indicates which competences should be taken into consideration for the development of curricula and study programmes in the education of creative professionals. A generalization of these findings suggests new challenges for companies relying on creative professionals. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/caim.12026 SN - 0963-1690 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 280 EP - 294 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gronewold, Ulfert A1 - Gold, Anna A1 - Salterio, Steven E. T1 - Reporting Self-Made Errors - The Impact of Organizational Error-Management Climate and Error Type JF - Journal of business ethics N2 - We study how an organization's error-management climate affects organizational members' beliefs about other members' willingness to report errors that they discover when chance of error detection by superiors and others is extremely low. An error-management climate, as a component of the organizational climate, is said to be "high" when errors are accepted as part of everyday life as long as they are learned from and not repeated. Alternatively, the error-management climate is said to be an "error averse" climate when discovery of errors invokes the laying of blame on those admitting to or found committing errors. We examine the effects of this error-management climate in a professional services environment where uncorrected errors may have severe consequences and discovery of work errors is crucial for organizational success. We find that error-management climate affects organizational members' beliefs about what other members will report about discovered self-made errors, with a high error-management (versus error averse) climate leading to greater reporting willingness. We also find a significant interaction with a key contextual variable, error type (conceptual or calculation), that suggests the effect is more significant for conceptual errors than calculation errors. Our findings suggest that an organization's error-management climate is an important factor in promoting ethical behavior of employees, especially junior employees, carrying out routine tasks whose failure to report errors discovered incidental to those tasks may have severe implications for their organizations. KW - Error reporting KW - Self-discovered errors KW - Organizational climate KW - Error-management climate KW - Auditors Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1500-6 SN - 0167-4544 SN - 1573-0697 VL - 117 IS - 1 SP - 189 EP - 208 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorenz-Carl, Ulrike A1 - Rempe, Martin T1 - Bringing agency (black) into african regionalism Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1-4094-6510-2 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Lorenz-Carl, Ulrike ED - Lorenz-Carl, Ulrike ED - Rempe, Martin T1 - Mapping agency : comparing regionalisms in Africa Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-1-4094-6510-2 PB - Ashgate CY - Farnham, England, Burlington, Vt ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tönnies, Sibylle T1 - Wider den westlichen Sonderweg : Globaler Melting Pot statt Clash of Civilizations Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-941880-71-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dmitrieva, Anna T1 - The influence of Russia's domestic politics on the EU-Russia relations Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-941880-67-2 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klingelhöfer, Tristan A1 - Müller, Jochen T1 - Politicised, but not depillarised? : coalition formation in the Dutch Provinces Y1 - 2013 CY - Potsdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kroll, Alexander A1 - Vogel, Dominik T1 - The PSM-leadership fit BT - a model of performance information use T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This article examines the use of performance information by public managers. It conceptualizes purposeful data use as a type of extra-role behaviour which requires additional effort on the part of the managers and which is not extrinsically rewarded. The article sheds light on one potential antecedent of performance information use – the motivation of the users. It argues that we can observe high levels of data use if managers driven by public service motivation (PSM) work under transformational leaders. Using a needs-supply perspective on supervisors and followers we suggest that there is a PSM-leadership fit which fosters the performance of this extra-role behaviour. The article is based on data from German local government and its findings contribute to the literatures on PSM as well as on performance management. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 77 KW - Public Service Motivation KW - Performance Information Use KW - Leadership KW - Transformational Leadership KW - Person-Organization Fit Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-100853 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 77 ER -