Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) sind für die Betriebswirtschaftslehre aus mehreren Gründen interessant und relevant. Zum einem stellen Sie in der Mehrheit der Volkswirtschaften nicht nur die große Zahl der Unternehmen- gemessen an deren Zahl- dar, sondern erwirtschaften auch den Großteil der Leistung gemessen an der Beschäftigung, Wertschöpfung und Wachstum. Zum anderen werden die Belange der KMU innerhalb der BWL erfreulicherweise in den letzten Jahren zwar stärker gewürdigt, erreichen jedoch noch immer nicht die Aufmerksamkeit der Projekte im Kontext internationaler Großunternehmen.

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Die Forschung zu KMU hat sich bisher nicht ausführlich mit Geschäftsmodellen befasst. Umgekehrt lag auch der Fokus der Business Model-Forschung eher auf Großunternehmen. Daher lädt die ZfKE zur Einreichung von theoretisch konzeptionellen und empirischen Beiträgen sowie Literature Reviews für dieses Sonderheft der ZfkE ein. Neben weiteren sind insbesondere die folgenden Themen von besonderem Interesse:

• KMU- spezifische Ausprägung von Geschäftsmodellen
• Business Model Innovation in KMU
• Verbindung von Geschäftsmodellen und Strategischem Management in KMU
• Rolle von Entscheidungsträgern für KMU-Geschäftsmodelle
• Einfluss der Digitalisierung auf Geschäftsmodelle von KMU
• Geschäftsmodelle von KMU im Kontext von Industrie 4.0
• Unterscheide der Geschäftsmodelle junger und etablierter Unternehmen.

Beiträge können bis zum 01. März 2016 mit dem Stichwort „ZfKE Special Issue Geschäftsmodelle“ per Email bei patrick.ulrich@uni-bamberg.de eingereicht werden.

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This sub-theme invites researchers from all over the world who study organizational working time regimes, their evolution, persistence, consequences for work-life balance, and approaches to changing them. Recent studies reveal the difficulties in advancing changes in the temporal organization of work, in particular in professional service firms which have traditionally expected their highly qualified employees to commit to a regime of long working hours, constant availability to clients and superiors, and an ever-increasing pace of work (e.g. Costas & Grey, 2012; Michel, 2011; Perlow, 1999; 2012). Such working time regimes have been widely criticized for their detrimental effects on productivity, employee well-being and gender equality in the workplace. However, reports on firms’ experiences with change initiatives reveal disappointing results (for a recent review, see Putnam et al., 2014): managerial efforts to attenuate the long hours patterns often fail, whilst the established working time regimes largely persist despite their drawbacks for individuals and companies.

The sub-theme particularly invites contributions that focus on one or more of the following questions:

• How are working time regimes enacted in different organizations, industries and institutional environments?
• What kind of organizational temporal structures (e.g. boundaries of work vs. non-work), rhythms (e.g. periods of intensive vs. non-intensive work), and orientations (e.g. concerning the past, present and future) are prevalent in different organizational contexts?
• What are the effects of existing working time regimes for individuals, organizations and societies (e.g. in terms of work-life conflict, health, gender issues, changing demographics, etc.)?
• How are bodies entangled in the continuous (re-)production of working time regimes? What dynamics arise when the different rhythms of bodies, families, organizations and industries meet and/or collide?
• How do business models and corporate strategies relate to working time regimes?
• How do working time regimes become path dependent? What role do initial conditions play in triggering such path dependence?
• What processes and mechanisms drive the persistence and/or path dependence of working time regimes?
• What processes and mechanisms advance change in the temporal organization of work?
• What is the impact of organizational control and unobtrusive forms of power on the stability and/or change of working time regimes?
• What is the relation between systemic and self-reinforcing processes, on the one hand, and individual agency, on the other, in particular when individuals do not conform to and/or resist established working time regimes?
• What processes and interventions are most likely to succeed at modifying and/or breaking highly institutionalized working time regimes?
• What kinds of working time regimes can foster sustainable forms of working and living?

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Call for Papers

Cooperatives as a Fortress of Participation?

 32th EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 55
7.-9. Juli 2016; Naples, Italy

Convenors: Irma Rybnikova, Christopher Land, Ronald Hartz

In the face of the current financial crisis a vivid revival of interest in alternative organizational forms, including cooperatives, can be observed in the literature (Cheney et al., 2014). Cooperatives are mainly considered as an alternative way of organizing in the shadow of private and public sectors which is often presumed to be able to respond to economic challenges and at the same time to maintain social values, such as organizational participation and democracy.

The sub-theme invites contributions addressing a range of issues, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Different forms and initiatives of participation in cooperatives
• The mutual relationship between the (ascribed) identities of cooperatives‘ members and participation practices
• The interlink between the participation of members and of employees in cooperatives
• The relationship between direct and representative participation in cooperatives, including the role of trade unions and works councils in these organizational contexts
• Country-specific legal and institutional contexts of cooperatives and their impact on participation practices
• Conceptual contributions to the analysis of participation in cooperatives, e.g. exploring the appropriateness of democratic theory or concepts of organizational participation in the context of cooperatives
• Methodological and methodical issues of empirical undertakings in this field, such as critical discussion of suitable research methods or approaches for theory generation

Deadline for the submission of short papers: 11.1.2016

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Studies of Organisational Management & Sustainability

The Editorial Board of Studies of Organisational Management & Sustainability (SOMS) invites submissions of a paper to its forthcoming issue.

Focus and Scope:

SOMS is an international, double-blind-peer-reviewed, open access, online academic journal. It publishes two issues per year and does not charge any publication/processing fee. Being a multidisciplinary publication, SOMS publishes research papers, literature and book reviews, short communications and letters to editors, covered by the three main sections of the journal:

a) Economics, Management and Entrepreneurship;

b) Marketing, Innovation and Services;

c) Human Capital and Organisational Behaviour.

The journal brings out research of empirical, methodological or conceptual nature in the following topics:

• strategic management;
• human resource management;
• financial management;
• accounting;
• marketing management;
• innovation management;
• entrepreneurship;
• knowledge management;
• operations management;
• economy;
• sustainability.

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Challenges in Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies

Edinburgh PhD Workshop

3.12.2015; University of Edinburgh Business School

Scientific Committee: Joseph Fan, Seth Armitage, Wenxuan Hou, Till Talaulicar, Li Jin, Subrata Sarkar

A Corporate Governance: An International Review Special Issue Conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on December 4-5, 2015. Prior to this CGIR conference, there will be a pre-conference workshop for PhD students on December 3, 2015.
The scientific committee invites submissions from PhD students for the workshop. PhD students who are interested to present and discuss their research in this workshop are invited to submit their research papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15.10.2015

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Aggressive Steuergestaltung

Beiträge für das Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft, Band 2017

Herausgeber des Bandes: Ute Schmiel, Werner Nienhüser

Steuern sind – so lange es sie gibt – Gegenstand politischer wie wissenschaftlicher Debatten. Aktuell entzündet sich die Diskussion an publik gewordenen aggressiven Steuergestaltungs-praktiken vor allem international agierender Konzerne. Aggressive Steuergestaltung (aggressive tax planning) ist nach herrschender Auffassung legal und nicht mit (strafbarer) Steuerhinterziehung zu verwechseln. Gleichwohl werden auch die legalen Praktiken als problematisch angesehen. Dies zeigt beispielsweise die Initiative auf Ebene der OECD (http://www.oecd.org/ctp/beps.htm), mit der aggressiver Steuergestaltung entgegengewirkt werden soll.

Für das im Metropolis-Verlag erscheinende Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft „Aggressive Steuergestaltung“ wollen die Herausgeber wissenschaftliche Beiträge zu diesem Thema einwerben und veröffentlichen. Um die Einreichung von Abstracts (bis zu 1500 Wörter) wird gebeten.

Ende der Einreichfrist: 15.11.2015

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Open Call for Papers

Managementforschung

Ziel der Managementforschung ist es, einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Ergebnisse der Forschung zu Managementproblemen zu geben; zugleich soll sie ein Diskussionsforum für neue Trends und Strömungen sein. Die Managementforschung richtet sich an die Forscher und Studierende der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie an wissenschaftlich interessierte Praktiker und Managementtrainer. Eine Einreichung von Beiträgen ist jederzeit möglich.

Die Managementforschung (MF) wird ab ihrem 26. Jahrgang ohne thematischen Schwerpunkt sowie als Zeitschrift erscheinen – und als solche auch elektronisch verfügbar sein. Einreichungen sind ab sofort jederzeit möglich.

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19th Colloquium on Personnel Economics (COPE)

9.-11.3.2016, Aachen

Scientific Commitee: Uschi Backes-Gellner, Oliver Fabel, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Matthias Kräkel, Kerstin Pull, Martin Schneider, Dirk Sliwka

The Colloquium on Personnel Economics provides a forum for presenting research in all areas of personnel economics – theoretical, empirical and experimental. Young scientists in particular have the opportunity to present and discuss their academic works, concepts and new discoveries among peers and more experienced scholars.

Deadline (extended abstract): 30.10.2015

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Advances in Personnel Economics

Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Personalforschung

(German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management)

Special Issue Editors: Alex Bryson, Robert Dur, Christian Grund, Christine Harbring, Alexander K. Koch, Edward P. Lazear

The application of economic theory and principles to firms‘ human resource problems is commonplace today. Personnel economics has come a long way since its early days in the late 1970s and 1980s, when Ed Lazear and others have developed its theoretical foundations. Since then researchers have more and more made use of new data, e.g. from individual firms and conducted econometric case studies or from country-wide linked employer-employee data sets to explore more general relationships. In addition, experimental designs implemented both in the lab and in the field have been frequently used. The empirical insights have again affected enhancements in theory, e.g. by considering social preferences or norms guiding decisions which had been originally neglected by economic theory. The exciting and innovative field of personnel economics is now widely recognized with its own JEL code.

The guest editors wish to contribute to this work with a special issue devoted to the field of personnel economics. Submitted papers should deal with a relevant issue in a powerful and compelling way, contributing to international research. The guest editors welcome both theoretical and empirical (including experimental) submissions. We also encourage conceptual submissions that discuss the scope, the status quo and future directions of (part of) the field.

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 31.10.2015

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Corporate Governance: An International Review
Special Issue Conference on

„Challenges in
Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies”

the 2nd Edinburgh Forum on Emerging Markets,

4./5.12.2015; University of Edinburgh Business School

Guest editors: Seth Armitage, Wenxuan Hou, Till Talaulicar, Li Jin, Subrata Sarkar

Conference Chair: Joseph Fan

In this call for papers for the Special Issue of Corporate Governance: An International Review, submissions are invited with a focus on the complex interface between firm-level governance mechanisms in emerging economies, their legal, economic and political institutions, and various organizational outcomes, including business strategy and performance. The Special Issue welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers.

Specific topics on corporate governance challenges in emerging economies include, but are not limited to:

• Comparisons between emerging and developed economies
• The role of institutions and national business systems in corporate governance
• Convergence towards best practices versus path-dependence
• Complementarities and substitution among governance mechanisms at different levels
• Regulatory framework, market development and investor protection
• Ownership and control structures and their dynamic evolution
• Institutional voids and governance in business groups
• The family-centric governance model and its organizational effects
• The governance of financial institutions and institutional investors
• The governance implications of corruption and bribery
• The role of political connections and relational contracting in governance
• The governance roles of reputation and culture
• The integrity of executives, responsible leadership and business ethics
• State corporatism and the role of the state as a shareholder
• Law, regulation and enforcement

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Deadline for submission (full article): 15.9.2015