Publications

The research activities of the Departement of Management are essentially organised within the chairs. Their professors and doctoral students carry out their research in the respective specialisations. The main research topics of the chairs and the activities of the doctoral students can be found on the following subpages.

The researchers of the department publish their research results regularly in national and international journals. Below you find some examples for such publications.

• Accounting and Finance

  Schuhmacher, K., Burkert, M. (2022): Time is relative: How framing of time estimation affects the accuracy of cost information, Management Science 68 (7): 5493-5513. 

  Burkert, M., Calderon, T., Hesford, J. W. & Turner, M. J. (2022): Azure Lodging, Inc.: A case study on capital budgeting with capital rationing in a service industry context, Issues in Accounting Education 37 (2): 67–89. 

  Dembinski, P., Kameling, J. - invited editors - (2021): Virtuous circle of ethics and sustainability, in Finance & the common Good/Bien Commun, no 48-49, 2021, in:Observatoire de la Finance.

  Eugster N., Isakov D., Ducret R., J.-P. Weisskopf, (2022): Chasing dividends during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Review of Finance, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 335-345.

  Isakov D., Pérignon C., J.-P. Weisskopf (2021): What if dividends were tax-exempt? Evidence from a natural experiment, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 12, (December), pp. 5756–5795.

  Ducret R., Isakov D. (2020): The Korea discount and chaebols, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 63, (October), 101396.

  Eugster N., Isakov D. (2019): Founding Family Ownership, Stock Market Returns, and Agency Problems, Journal of Banking and Finance, vol. 107, (October),105600 (Lead article).

  Missonier-Piera, F., Spadetti, C. (2023), “The consequences of earnings management for the acquisition premium in friendly takeovers”, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Vol. 50, pp. 308-334.

  Missonier-Piera, F., Dick, W. (2020): Financial Accounting with IFRS, Pearson Education.

  Missonier-Piera, F., Spadetti, C.: The Consequences of Earnings Management on the Acquisition Premium of Friendly Takeovers, in: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, (forthcoming).

  Wallmeier, Martin (2024): Quality issues of implied volatilities of index and stock options in the OptionMetrics IvyDB database, in: Journal of Futures Markets 44, 2024, 854-875

  Chardonnens, Patrick., Wallmeier, Martin (2024): Kinked Accounting? Small Loss Avoidance in Europe and (Not) the US, in: Accounting in Europe, 2024

  Chardonnens, Patrick., Fiechter, P., Wallmeier, Martin (2022): The Disappearance of the Zero-Earnings Discontinuity: SOX, Dotcom Boom or Gradual Decline?, in: Finance Research Letters 48, 2022, 103033

   

• International Management, Strategy and Organisation

  Araujo, P., Davoine, Eric, & Donzé, P. Y. (2023): Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890–2020). Business History, 1-25

  Dolce, V.,  Davoine, Eric, Wodociag, S., Ghislieri, Ch. (2023):  The road to an international career: The “Erasmus effect” on resilience, intercultural interactions and cultural intelligence, in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations

  Cangià, F., Davoine, Eric, & Tashtish, S. (2022). Gender and the career trajectories of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland. Migration Letters, 19 (6), 751-764. 

  Audrin, B., Davoine Eric (2022): The metaphors of Digital transformation,  in A Ortenblad (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies, Oxford: OUP, in press

  Davoine, E.; Furrer O. (2022), Les défis de l'internationalisation des entreprises, Vuibert : Paris 

  Davoine, E.; Schmid, S. (2022): Career patterns of top managers in Europe: Signs of further globalisation?, in: European Management Journal, 40 (4), pp 467-474

  Cangia, F., Davoine, E., Tashtish, S. (2021), (Im) mobilities, waiting and professional aspirations: The career lives of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland, in: Geoforum, Vol. 125, pp 57-65

  P. Coulange, Dembinski, P. (sous la direction) (2021): Ecologie et Technologie au prisme de l'enseignement social chrétien, St Augustin, St Maurice

  Dembinski, P. (2020): Un colosse aux pieds d'argile - Quand l’imaginaire économique en vient à s’épuiser, in: Revue d'éthique et de théologie morale, 2020/HS N° Hors-série | pages 137 à 153

  Stock, D. M., Erpf, P. (2022): Systematic literature review on entrepreneurial orientation in nonprofit organizations – Far more than business‐like behavior, in: Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing, published online 10 May.

  Erpf, P. & Gmür, M. (Hrsg.) (2023): Unternehmerische Führung und Kultur in Nonprofit-Organisationen: Erfolgsbeispiele und aktuelle Trends. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

  Erpf, P., Butkevičienė, E., Pučėtaitė, R. (2022): Between de Jure and de Facto: Embedding Western Concepts of Social Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Reality, in: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 13(1), 1-28.

  Erpf, P., Gmür, M., Baumann, J.: Does the Business Suit Fit? Drivers for Economic Performance in Social Enterprises. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, published online 21 July 2022.

  Evans, R., Raudsaar, M., Līcīte-Ķurbe, L., Butkevičienė, E., Erpf, P., Urmanavičienė, A., & Raišienė, A. G. (2021): Social Enterprises in Rural Areas: A Comparative Study of the Baltic States, in: Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 252-272), Routledge.

  Urmanavičienė, A., Butkevičienė, E., Erpf, P., Raišienė, A. G. (2021). Social Enterprises in Lithuania: Historical Roots and Current Trends, in: Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 123-137), Routledge. 

  Gonin, M., Gachet, N., Erpf, P. (2021). Social Enterprise Approaches in Switzerland. In: Social Enterprise in Western Europe (pp. 235-252), Routledge.

  Fauchart, E. (2021): Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-Together: How digital technologies affect creating alone or with others?" (with M. Bacache, M. Bourreau, F. Moreau), Technovation

  Fauchart, E. (2021): Getting more from many -A framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation" (with C. Hertel, J. Binder), Journal of business Venturing, 36(3)

  Fauchart, E. (2016): Measuring the social identity of entrepreneurs: Scale development and international validation (with P. Sieger, M. Gruber, T. Zellweger), Journal of Business Venturing (1). 31(5):542-572

  Terpstra-Tong, J.; Ralston, D.A.; Furrer, Olivier, Karam C. et al. (2024): Attitudes of millennials towards corporate responsability: a 28-society multilevel analysis, in: Cross-Cultural & Strategic Management

  Terpstra‐Tong, J.; Treviño, L.J; Cansu Yaman, A.; Jintae Froese, F.; Ralston, D.A.; Bozionelos, N.; Furrer, O.; Tjemkes, B. et al. (2024): Gender composition at work and women's career satisfaction: An international study of 35 societies, in: Human Resource Management Journal

  Ralston, D.A.; Russel, C.J.; Terpstra-Tong, J.; Treviño L.J.; Ramburuth, P.; Richards, M.; Furrer, O. et al. [full author details at the end of the article (2024): Are societal-level values still relevant measures in the twenty-first century businessworld? A 39-society analysis, Asia Pacific Journal of Management

  Ben Jemaa-Boubaya, K., Furrer, O., Hani, M., Dikmen, L., and Cheriet, F. (2022): The Imbrication of Internal and External Coopetition in Strategic Alliances, in: Managing Interpartner Cooperation in Strategic Alliances (MICSA), T.K. Das (ed.), Edward Elgar, pp. 63-90.

  Furrer, O., Davoine E. (2022): Les défis de l'internationalisation des entreprises, Vuibert - Recherche: Paris 

  Gmür, M., Lichtsteiner, H., Stuhlmann, K., Erpf, P. & Andeßner, R. (2023): Das Freiburger Management-Modell für Nonprofit-Organisationen, 10. Auflage, Bern/Stuttgart: Haupt.

  Andeßner, R., Greiling, D., Gmür, M. (Hrsg.): Kooperation und Konkurrenz von Nonprofit-Organisationen. Konzeptionelle und empirische Beiträge aus der Forschung, Linz: 2022

  Erpf, P., Gmür, M., Baumann, J. (2022): Does the Business Suit Fit? Drivers for Economic Performance in Social Enterprises. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship: published online 21 July

  Sender, Anna; Gmür, Markus (Hrsg.) (2022): The Role of HRM in Making Change Happen, in: Die Unternehmung 76/4

  Mena, Sébastien; Parker, S. (2024): The temporal structuring of corporate sustainability, in: Journal of Business Ethics, 195(1): 1-23.

  Cavotta, V. & Mena, Sébastien (2023): Pro-social organizing and the distance between core and community work, in: Organization Studies, 44(4): 637–657

  Coraiola, D., Foster, W., Mena, Sébastien., Foroughi, H. & Rintamäki, J. (2023): Ecologies of memories: Memory work within and between organizations and communities, in: Academy of Management Annals, 17(1): 373-404

  Pek, S.; Mena, Sébastien & Lyons, B. (2023): The role of deliberative mini-publics in improving the deliberative capacity of multi-stakeholder initiatives, in: Business Ethics Quarterly, 33(1): 102-145

  Mena, Sébastien; Rintamäki, J., Fleming, P. & Spicer, A. (2016): On the forgetting of corporate irresponsibility, in: Academy of Management Review, 41(4): 720-738 

  Mena, Sébastien & Suddaby, R. (2016): Theorization as institutional work: The dynamics of roles and practices, in: Human Relations, 69(8): 1669-1708

  Goetz, Martin A.; Morschett, Dirk (2025): Investigating the effects of institutional distance and experience on acquisition performance across emerging markets, in: International Journal of Emerging Market, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 316-336.

  Lê, Bich Ngoc, Morschett, Dirk (2024): How EMNEs and DMNEs can attract applicants in emerging and developed countries–a cross-national conjoint analysis on the role of country-of-origin and CSR, in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 35; No. 8, pp. 1449-1485.

  Wu, Juan; Wang, Daojuan; Morschett, Dirk (2023): Light Touch Goes Where? A Longitudinal Study of the Post-Acquisition Integration Paths Adopted by Chinese Multinational Enterprises, in: Journal of International Management, Vol. 29, No. 5.

  Schmid; David; Morschett, Dirk (2023): Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective, in: International Business Review, Vol. 30

  Bich Ngoc Le; Morschett, Dirk (2023): Employer attractiveness of EMNEs – The role of CSR in overcoming country-of-origin image constraints in developed host countries, in: Management International Review, Vol. 63, pp. 313-346

  Grünig, Rudolf; Kühn, R.; Morschett, Dirk (2022): The Strategy Planning Process - Strategic Analyses, Objectives, Options and Projects, 3^rd ed., (Springer) Berlin 2022.

  Grünig, Rudolf; Kühn, R.; Morschett, Dirk (2022): Procédé de planification stratégique - Analyses, Objectifs, Options et Projets, 3^ème ed., (Haupt) Bern 2022.

  Grünig, Rudolf; Kühn, R.; Morschett, Dirk (2022): Strategieplanungsprozess – Strategische Analysen, Ziele, Optionen und Projekte, 3. Aufl., (Haupt) Bern 2022. 

  Jovanovic, Jelena, Morschett, Dirk (2022): Under which conditions do manufacturing companies choose FDI for service provision in foreign markets? An investigation using fsQCA, in: Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 104, July, pp. 38-50.

  Wu, Juan; Morschett, Dirk (2021): M&As by Chinese Multinational Enterprises in Developed Economies – Strategic Asset Seeking and Bundling, in: European Journal of International Management, 2021

  Jovanovic, Jelena, Morschett, Dirk (2021): International resource configuration of product-related services in the digital age – An analysis of its antecedents, in: Journal of Service Management, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 813-834.

  Schmid, David; de Thomas Wagner, Finn; Morschett, Dirk (2021): Archetypes of Driver Combinations Leading to Foreign Market Exit – An Investigation into European Grocery Retailing, in: Management International Review, Vol. 61, pp. 521–562.

  Schmid, David, Morschett, Dirk (2020): Decades of research on foreign subsidiary divestment: What do we really know about its antecedents?, in: International Business Review, Vol. 27, Issue 4.

  Onken-Menke, G., Lauritzen, G.D., Nüesch, S., J.N. Foege (2022). Organizational attractiveness after identity threats of crises: how potential employees anticipates social identity., in: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, V. 31, pp. 622-640.

  Clemens, V., Sabel. C.A., Foege, J.N., Nüesch, S. (2022). System design choice in the sharing economy: how different institutional logics drive consumer perception and consumers’ Intention to use sharing systems, in: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, V. 74, pp. 201-234.

  Loberg, L., Nüesch, S., Foege, J.N. (2021). Forced distribution rating systems and team collaboration, in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 188, pp. 18—35.

  Kröll, C., Nüesch, S., Foege, J.N. (2021). Flexible work practices and organizational attractiveness in Germany: the mediating role of anticipated organizational support, in: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 32, pp. 543-572.

  Jung, C., Foege, J.F., Nüesch, S. (2020): Cash for contingencies: how the organizational task environment shapes the cash-performance relationship, in: Long Range Planning, Vol. 53, pp. 101885

• Marketing and Innovation Management

  Plotkina, Daria; Rabeson, Landisoa; Bambauer-Sachse, Silke (2025): The role of green brand image in explaining European consumers’ reactions to different types of sustainable packaging, in:
  Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

  Bambauer-Sachse, Silke; Young, Ashley (2024): Consumers’ Intentions to Spread Negative Word of Mouth About Dynamic Pricing for Services: Role of Confusion and Unfairness Perceptions, in: Journal of Service Research 

  Bambauer-Sachse, Silke; Young, Ashley (2022): Customer Cognitive Appraisals of Differential and Dynamic Pricing, Artikel in: Marketing ZFP  

  Furrer O.; Landry M.; Baillod C.; Yu Kerguignas J. (2024): A Research Agenda for Service Marketing, Chapter 1, Elgar Research Agendas

  Furrer O.; Landry M.; Baillod C.; Yu Kerguignas J. (2024): A Research Agenda for Service Marketing, Chapter 13, Elgar Research Agendas

  Furrer O.; Landry M.; Baillod C. (2024): Managing customer-to-customer interactions: revisiting older models for a fresh perspective, in: Journal of Services Marketing 

  Schäper, T., Foege, J.N., Nüesch, S. (forthcoming). Toolkits for innovation: how digital technologies empower users in new product development, in: R&D Management

  Schäper, T., Jung, C., Foege, J.N., Borgers, M.L.A.M., Fainshmidt, S., Nüesch. S. (2023). The S-shaped relationship between open innovation and financial performance: A longitudinal perspective using a novel text-based measure. In: Research Policy, Vol. 52, pp. 104764

  Bendig, D., Wagner, R., Jung, C., Nüesch, S. (2022). When and why technology leadership enters the C-suite: an antecedent perceptive on CIO presence, in: Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Vol. 31, pp. 101705

  Van der Berg, A., Foege, J.N., Nüesch, S. (2022). Toward a shared leadership environment: insights into retail salespeople’s work environment, in: Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management. Vol, 42, pp. 121-138

  Schäper, T., Foege, J.N., Nüesch, S., Schäfer. S. (2021). Determinants of idea sharing in crowdsourcing: evidence from the automotive industry, in: R&D Management., Vol. 51, pp. 101-113