Het streven naar een hogere levensstandaard van de economische onontwikkelde gebieden

Lake Success, Februari 1948Schrijver dezes is werkzaam bij het Departement van Economische Zaken der Verenigde Naties. Het artikel geeft uiteraard zijn persoonlijke mening weer en mag dus niet worden beschouwd als de officiële opvatting, gehuldigd door het Departement van Economische Zaken der Verenigde Naties, weer te geven.     

Elektromobilität braucht intelligente Förderung

Die EU-Kommission sieht in ihrer Roadmap 2050 vor, ab 2050 keine Fahrzeuge mehr mit Verbrennungsmotoren in den St?dten zuzulassen. Der Verbrennungsmotor als Antrieb für Kraftfahrzeuge muss entsprechend mittelfristig durch andere Antriebsformen abgel?st werden. Dies geschieht nicht reibungslos und macht eine intelligente F?rderung notwendig. Wie gro? die Bereitschaft in der Bev?lkerung ist, auf Elektromobilit?t umzusteigen, wird von den Autoren anhand eines Experiments gezeigt.     

Kommunaler Altschuldenfonds: Verringerung der effektiven Schuldenlast anstreben!

High indebtedness is a major burden for many municipalities in Germany. Moreover, the high stock of cash credits indicates severe economic imbalances and bears significant interest rate risk. Hence, debt funds for cash credits are currently under discussion in Germany. However, a sustainable solution to the municipalities’ debt problem requires a reduction of the current debt burden and the prevention of new indebtedness. In this context, high stocks of cash credits are a symptom of structural fiscal problems rather than the actual disease. Thus, their reduction would be an important component of a number of measures, but only part of the solution.     

Entrepreneurial networking: a blessing or a curse? Differential effects for low,medium and high performing franchisees

Recent studies have called for a better understanding of the link between networking and entrepreneurial performance. We provide such understanding in three ways: by focusing on a specific entrepreneurial context (franchise systems), by developing a multi-faceted theoretical framework and by highlighting a contingency that may affect the networking-performance link. We combine knowledge and learning perspectives with a networking perspective to develop and test a multi-faceted framework on the effects of franchisee networking with peers within a franchise system (‘peer networking’) on franchisee unit performance. In particular, we argue that the performance benefits that franchisees draw from networking with their peers vary between low, medium and high performing franchisees. We use ordinary least squares (OLS) and Quantile Regression analyses to test our hypotheses with empirical data from a Dutch franchise system. Our results confirm that structural, resource and relational facets of franchisee peer networking affect unit performance, and that they benefit and harm low, medium, and high performing franchisees differently.     

Chancen und Potenziale von Mobility-as-a-Service nach der Corona-Pandemie

Wirtschaftsdienst - Die Pandemie stellt einen Einschnitt in der positiven Entwicklung des öffentlichen Verkehrs dar. Die Furcht der Nutzer:innen vor Infektionen könnte einen nachhaltigen...     

Human capital,diversity, and new firm formation

This paper analyses the role of human capital in determining regional variations in firm births. It is argued that both the level and heterogeneity of human capital are particularly important for services. This is confirmed by an empirical analysis of data for sub-regions of Great Britain from 2001 to 2007 utilising ordinary least-squares and maximum likelihood models incorporating spatial effects. Other variables found to impact on the creation of new service firms are related to labour market effects, agglomeration economies and competition; there are also significant differences in the impact of human capital between services and manufacturing.     

Effects of Adverse Selection on a Multinational Firm’s Decision on where to Subcontract

This paper analyses the effects of adverse selection on a multinational firm’s decision on where to subcontract. Adverse selection arises since subcontractor firms have more information than the multinational concerning their production costs. The results obtained show that adverse selection confers to subcontractor firms an advantage in their relationship with the multinational, inducing the multinational to subcontract in more than one country. In this way, adverse selection modelling outcomes justify, and are coherent with, the empirical evidence such as, the diversity of countries that multinational firms subcontract and the fast production relocation between countries.      

Organizational Structure and Performance in Dutch small Firms

The relationship between organizational structure and performance in small firms has received relatively limited attention over the last few decades. In understanding small firm performance this seems to be a serious omission. In this paper, we first present the rationale for including organizational structure in the analysis of small firm performance. Then, from the literature on organizational theory, we retrieve several dimensions that may be postulated to describe organizational structures of small firms. Based on the study of a stratified sample of 1411 Dutch small firms we show that nine structure stereotypes can be delineated. We further investigate the relevance of the empirical taxonomy by looking at the relationship with firm performance in terms of sales growth, profitability and innovativeness. Eventually, we conclude that organizational structure indeed matters and that it deserves to be taken into account in models and future analysis of small firm performance.     

Value Orientation in Process Management

There is no doubt that at least since the 1990s process orientation has evolved into one of the central paradigms of organizational design. Since then, all process management subtasks have matured. Process management decisions, however, lack economic foundation. They are usually based on qualitative or technical criteria or on plausibility considerations that do not necessarily comply with typical objectives in a market economy. Consequently, design alternatives are hardly comparable and an integrated valuation of a company’s assets is impossible. The status quo is astonishing for several reasons: First, process management decisions usually imply investment projects with different risk/return positions and capital tie-up. Second, the need for designing processes according to their contribution to corporate objectives has been explicated repeatedly. Third, the paradigm of value-based management is an accepted theoretical framework from economic research that enables to consistently valuate the risk/return effects of decisions across functional areas, hierarchy levels, and asset classes. This suggests the hypothesis that process management in general as well as the goal orientation of process management decisions in particular have evolved almost independently of value-based management. In the paper at hand, this hypothesis is confirmed based on a sample of process management publications. We therefore explicate the research gap as regards value orientation in process management. In order to bridge the gap between value-based management and process-oriented organizational design, we transfer economically well-founded objective functions to process management decisions.