Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development

In a world of limited resources, it could be argued that companies that aspire to be good corporate citizens need to focus on making best use of resources. User value and environmental harm are created in supply chains and it could therefore be argued that company business ethics should be extended from the company to the entire value chain from the first supplier to the last customer. Starting with a delineation of the linkages between business ethics, corporate sustainability, and the stakeholder concept, this article argues that supply chains generally have a great innovation potential for sustainable development. This potential could be highlighted with system thinking and the use of change management knowledge, promoting not only innovations within technology but also within organizational improvement. We propose process models and performance indicators as means of highlighting improvement potential and thus breaking down normative business ethics’ requirements to an opertionalizable corporate level: Good business ethics should focus on maximizing stakeholder value in relation to harm done. Our results indicate that focusing on supply chains reveals previously unknown innovation potential that seems to be related to limited system understanding. The assumption is that increased visibility of opportunities will act as a driver for change. Results also highlight the importance of focusing on sustainability effects of the core business and clearly relating value created to harm done.     

Schmerzen erkennen

Schmerzeinsch?tzung im Alter und bei Demenz - Menschen mit Demenz k?nnen h?ufig keine Selbstauskunft über ihr Schmerzerleben geben. Sie sind darauf angewiesen, dass die Schmerzen von anderen erkannt werden. Welche pflegerischen Instrumente erleichtern die Fremdeinsch?tzung von Schmerzen?     

Organizations Behaving Badly: When Are Discreditable Actions Likely to Damage Organizational Reputation?

Everyday there are revelations of organizations behaving in discreditable ways. Sometimes these actions result in damage to an organization’s reputation, but often they do not. In this article, we examine the question of why external stakeholders may overlook disclosed discreditable actions, even those entailing ethical breaches. Drawing on stigmatization theory, we develop a model to explain the likelihood of reputational loss following revelations of discreditable actions. The model integrates four properties of actions (perceived control, perceived certainty, perceived threat, and perceived deviance), stakeholder motivation, and media coverage. Implications for theory and for practitioners concerned with reputation management are discussed.     

Markenkommunikation 2.0 — Konsumenten formen Markenbotschaften

Zusammenfassung  Hoch involvierte Konsumenten agieren zunehmend als Sender von Markenbotschaften. Sie m?chten an markenpolitischen Fragestellungen partizipieren. Aus diesem Wunsch resultieren durch die ausgepr?gte soziale Vernetzung und die Entkopplung der Kommunikation neue Herausforderungen für die Kommunikationspolitik. Denn die konsumenteninitiierte Kommunikation birgt durchaus Gefahren, die vom Unternehmen rechtzeitig gemanagt werden sollten. Die Chance, von der Meinung ihrer Konsumenten zu profitieren, nutzen bislang noch zu wenige Unternehmen. Prof. Dr. Tobias Langner Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Marketing, an der Bergischen Universit?t Wuppertal sowie wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Instituts für Marken- und Kommunikationsforschung, Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal Dipl.-Kfm. Alexander Fischer Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Marketing, an der Bergischen Universit?t Wuppertal     

Markorientierte Kernkompetenzen — Integrativer Ansatz nicht empfehlenswert

In der Wirtschaftsrise suchen Unternehme nach neuen strategischen Marketingns?tzen. So macht der Begriff der sogenannten „Marktorientierten Kernkompetenzen“ die Runde, ein Konzept, das die klassische marktbasierte Sicht und die ressourcenbasierte Sicht des Strategischen Managements integrieren will. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, warum ein solche Ansatz für die Wirtschaft wenig zielührend ist.     

Managing Employee Compensation Risk

Review of Accounting Studies - We analyze a principal-agent model in which the principal (e.g., shareholders) and the agent (e.g., an employee) can personally trade securities tied to the outcome...     

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The causes of the economic crisis

The authors are attempting an objective elucidation of the economic crisis in Portugal. They are dealing with the influence of excess investment, with external economic factors such as the energy crisis and the recession in the industrial countries, and with the consequences of the revolutionary process.