TY - CHAP A1 - Dörfler, Thomas A1 - Hosli, Madeleine O. T1 - Reforming the United Nations Security Council BT - proposals, strategies and preferences T2 - Routledge Handbook of International Organization Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0-415-50143-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203405345.ch28 SP - 377 EP - 390 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Günther, Oliver A1 - van Putten, Bart-Jan A1 - Brecht, Franziska T1 - Challenges in Business Case Development and Requirements for Business Case Frameworks JF - Supporting Reuse in Business Case Development N2 - Business cases (BC) are often used to support information systems (IS) investment evaluation. Unfortunately, business case development (BCD) is a complex task, especially identifying and quantifying the benefits of a proposed investment. Although today’s business case frameworks (BCF) support BCD to some extent, they have several limitations Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-658-01170-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01171-0_2 SP - 8 EP - 22 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kneiding, Christoph A1 - Kritikos, Alexander T1 - Funding self-employment - the role of consumer credit JF - Applied economics N2 - This article investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular, instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and nonfinancial household variables, we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts significantly more often than employee households. When analysing the correlation between consumer loan take-ups and consumption of self-employed in comparison to employee households, we find first evidence that overdrafts are used by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that intermingling constitutes a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. KW - small business finance KW - consumer credit KW - financial intermingling KW - household business interface Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.637895 SN - 0003-6846 VL - 45 IS - 13 SP - 1741 EP - 1749 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eppinger, Elisabeth A1 - Vladova, Gergana T1 - Intellectual property management practices at small and medium-sized enterprises JF - International journal of technology management N2 - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) contribute to innovation and economic growth, despite their resource shortages and lack of professional intellectual property (IP) management practices. Drawing on social practice theory and combining insights from recent scholarship on IP strategies and its management, this paper examines the cases of three pharmaceutical SME providing insights into how they appropriate returns on research and development (R&D) investments. It discusses their IP strategies and management practices, examining how the IP management practices are embedded in the firm's organisational structure. Moreover, this paper develops recommendations for SME regarding the professionalisation of their IP management practices. KW - IP management KW - intellectual property rights KW - IPR KW - IP strategy KW - patents KW - pharmaceutical industry KW - practice theory KW - small and medium-sized enterprise KW - SME Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTM.2013.050244 SN - 0267-5730 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 64 EP - 81 PB - Inderscience Enterprises Ltd CY - Geneva ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Daviter, Falk T1 - Framing Europe the policy shaping strategies of the European commission JF - Public administration Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2012.02110.x SN - 0033-3298 VL - 91 IS - 1 SP - 245 EP - 247 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hickmann, Thomas T1 - Private authority in global climate governance the case of the clean development mechanism JF - Climate & development N2 - The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a prominent example of the mix of public and private authority in global climate policy-making. While national governments hold the supreme authority in the CDM, the oversight and daily supervision of the project-based mechanism have been delegated via an intergovernmental body to private corporations that evaluate the environmental performance of individual CDM projects. By focusing on the CDM as a particular instance of private authority in global climate governance, this article analyses the consequences associated with the delegation of authority to private actors. The article critically assesses the role of private auditing corporations, labelled Designated Operational Entities, in the regulatory framework of the CDM and points to serious trade-offs which accompany the privatisation of authority. The article's findings suggest that the promise of innovative modes of governance to increase the effectiveness of international regulation is seriously compromised by the profit-seeking behaviour of private actors. Hence, the article underscores the need to reconsider the balance between public and private authority in global (climate) governance. KW - carbon markets KW - Clean Development Mechanism KW - climate policy KW - global climate governance KW - post-2012 negotiations KW - private authority Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2013.768174 SN - 1756-5529 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 46 EP - 54 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stecker, Christian T1 - Parliaments and coalitions: - the role of legislative institutions in multiparty governance JF - Politische Vierteljahresschrift : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft Y1 - 2013 SN - 0032-3470 VL - 54 IS - 2 SP - 383 EP - 385 PB - Nomos CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vöth, Markus A1 - Herbst, Uta A1 - Liess, Frank T1 - We know exactly what you want the development of a completely individualised conjoint analysis JF - International journal of market research N2 - Improving the predictive validity of conjoint analysis has been an important research objective for many years. Whereas the majority of attempts have been different approaches to preference modelling, data collection or product presentation, only a few scholars have tried to improve predictive validity by individualising conjoint designs. This comes as a surprise because many markets have observed an augmented demand for customised products and highly heterogeneous customers' preferences. Against this background, the authors develop a conjoint variant based on a completely individualised conjoint design. More concretely, the new approach not only individualises the attributes, but also the attribute levels. The results of a comprehensive empirical study yield a significantly higher validity than existing standardised-level conjoint approaches. Consequently, they help marketers to gain deeper insights into their customers' preferences. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2501/IJMR-2013-038 SN - 1470-7853 VL - 55 IS - 3 SP - 437 EP - 458 PB - Market Research Society CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kroll, Alexander T1 - The other type of performance information - nonroutine feedback, its relevance and use JF - Public administration review N2 - The literature on performance information use explains how public managers deal with mainly quantitative data that are systematically collected and formally reported. This article argues that such a narrow understanding is incomplete, as it excludes all kinds of nonroutine performance information, including verbal, ad hoc, and qualitative feedback. To understand how responsive public managers are to performance feedback, alternative sources of performance information need to be taken into account. A literature review suggests considering two important sources of nonroutine feedback: organizational insiders and relevant external stakeholders. Using survey data from German local government, this article shows that public managers prefer to use nonroutine feedback over routine data from performance reports. Furthermore, a regression analysis indicates that different sources of performance information require different determinants to trigger their use. This finding is essential because it suggests that explanations of performance information use can covary with the information source studied. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02648.x SN - 0033-3352 VL - 73 IS - 2 SP - 265 EP - 276 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Andree, Kai T1 - A note on merger in mixed duopoly - Bertrand versus Cournot JF - Journal of economics N2 - In this note we analyze the incentives to merge in a mixed duopoly if firms compete in prices or quantities. Our model framework mainly follows Barcena-Ruiz and Garzon (J Econ 80:27-42, 2003) who set up the model with quantity competition. We extend their analysis by analyzing the case of competition in prices. Further we compare the incentives to merge with Bertrand and Cournot competition. Comparing quantity with price competition we can show that a merger is more likely with Cournot competition than with Bertrand competition. KW - Merger KW - Price competition KW - Mixed duopoly Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-012-0280-x SN - 0931-8658 VL - 108 IS - 3 SP - 291 EP - 298 PB - Springer CY - Wien ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geiss, Robin T1 - The law of targeting JF - European journal of international law Y1 - 2013 SN - 0938-5428 VL - 24 IS - 2 SP - 722 EP - 729 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - 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 -