Changes in formal structure towards self-managing organization and their effects on the intra-organizational communication network. - In: Journal of organization design, ISSN 2245-408X, Bd. 12 (2023), 3, S. 83-98
Changes in organizational structure affect the intra-organizational communication network. However, despite an increasing relevance of less hierarchical and less bureaucratic forms of organizing, the question of how self-managing forms of organization influence employees’ communication behavior has received only scant attention yet. In our study, we analyze the case of a medium-sized firm that experiences organizational change from rigid bureaucratic structures to a more self-managing organization model and question how employees’ centrality in the communication network is affected by this reorganization. Following an explorative research approach informed by prior research on self-managing forms of organizations and communication networks, our findings show that after the change process communication generally is less dependent on formal hierarchy. However, while employees who held a higher rank before the change process loose in centrality, their centrality at the end of the change process is still higher than that of other employees. Moreover, employees who experience a promotion become more central in the communication network while demotions do not have an effect. By discussing these findings in the context of organizational change and the persistence of organizational structures, we contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the implementation process of self-managing organizations.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41469-023-00143-z.pdf?pdf=button
The fallacy in productivity decomposition. - In: Journal of evolutionary economics, ISSN 1432-1386, Bd. 33 (2023), 3, S. 797-835
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00191-023-00816-8.pdf
Hello, mandated unbundling, my old friend. - In: Kartellrecht in der Zeitenwende, (2023), S. 245-252
https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748937227-245
Wettbewerbsverzerrungen aus Drittstaaten: wie kann ein fairer globaler Wettbewerb gestärkt werden?. - In: Kartellrecht in der Zeitenwende, (2023), S. 229-243
https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748937227-229
Die 11. GWB-Novelle - vom Schutz des Wettbewerbsprozesses zur Verbesserung von Wettbewerbsstrukturen?. - In: Kartellrecht in der Zeitenwende, (2023), S. 113-130
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https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748937227-113
German corona protest mobilizers on Telegram and their relations to the far right: a network and topic analysis. - In: Social media + society, ISSN 2056-3051, Bd. 9 (2023), 1, insges. 12 S.
The Querdenken movement, the leading force behind German corona protests, is suspected of being a gateway to far-right attitudes due to radicalizing inward-oriented communication on Telegram. To investigate potential connections of this movement to the far right and alternative media - and to explore key topics of the Querdenken network over time - we analyzed 6,294,955 messages from 578 public Telegram channels via network analysis and structural topic modeling. This analysis revealed that Querdenken's subcommunities preferably forward content from far-right and QAnon communities, while far-right and conspiracy theorist alternative media channels act as content distributors for the movement. Four main topics appeared in the Querdenken network with varying prevalence over time and across different communities: promotion, QAnon, right-wing populism, and COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Our results highlight potential directions for future research and practical implications, for example, that political decision makers should account for the increasing influence of the QAnon movement on Querdenken mobilizers' Telegram activity.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231155106
Entrepreneurship culture: aggregate trait or collective programming of the mind?. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 28, no. 176)
The answer is yes to both. For decades, research on entrepreneurship culture has relied on two competing theoretical foundations for the important concept of entrepreneurship culture. One camp views entrepreneurship culture as an aggregate of personality traits conducive for entrepreneurship. The other camp applies Hofstede’s (1980) definition of culture as “collective programming of the mind” towards entrepreneurship (e.g., Beugelsdijk, 2007, Hofstede et al., 2004; Stephan and Uhlander, 2010). In this paper I present empirical evidence that measures of entrepreneurship culture reflecting both approaches explain entrepreneurial intentions and action. Entrepreneurship culture is thus both - an aggregate personality trait and a collective programming of the mind.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00056961
Spreading positive change: societal benefits of meditation. - In: Frontiers in psychiatry, ISSN 1664-0640, Bd. 14 (2023), 1038051, S. 01-08
Mindful Universities Research Group: Reyk Albrecht, Christian Dobel, Nicola Döring, Veronika Engert, Orlando Guntinas Lichius, Jens Haueisen, Philipp Kanske, Mike Sandbothe. - The Supplementary material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1038051/full#supplementary-material
Research over the past decades has revealed a variety of beneficial effects of meditation training. These beneficial effects span the levels of health and well-being, cognition, emotion, and social behavior. Around the same time, sociologists have shown that traits and outcomes on the individual level have the potential to spread in communities over three or more degrees. This means, for example, that changes can spread from one person to the next, and on to yet another person. Here, we propose that meditation-induced changes may likewise spread through the social networks of meditation practitioners. Such spreading may happen by positively influencing others through prosocial actions, improved cognitive functioning, and increased positive affect. Positive affective states and their underlying physiological correlates may also be shared in the literal sense. We argue that the spreading of positive meditation effects could provide the basis for collective responses to some of the urgent challenges we face in our current time and society and call for future meditation research to examine the phenomenon.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1038051
Distant but close in sight: firm-level evidence on French-German productivity gaps in manufacturing. - In: Review of income and wealth, ISSN 1475-4991, Bd. 69 (2023), 1, S. 228-261
We study productivity-level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French ones in the decade 2003-2013, but the gap has narrowed down after the Great Recession. Convergence is explained by the better growth performance of French firms in the post-recession period, especially of those located in the top percentiles of the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size, and export intensity in explaining the above convergence. In contrast, the contribution of allocative efficiency was small.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/roiw.12595
Use and evaluation of contraceptive information in social media: an interview study with adolescents and young adults :
Nutzung und Bewertung von Verhütungsinformationen in Sozialen Medien: eine Interviewstudie mit Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen. - In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung, ISSN 1438-9460, Bd. 36 (2023), 2, S. 66-75
Einleitung: Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene beziehen Informationen über Methoden der Schwangerschafts- bzw. Zeugungsverhütung heute oft aus dem Internet und insbesondere aus Sozialen Medien wie YouTube, Instagram oder TikTok. Forschungsziele: Bislang ist jedoch kaum untersucht worden, wie diese Nutzung von Social-Media-Verhütungsinformationen bei jungen Menschen im Einzelnen beschaffen ist (Forschungsfrage 1). Unklar ist auch, wie junge Menschen verhütungsbezogene Beiträge (F2) und zugehörige Publikumskommentare (F3) bewerten und welche Anforderungen sie an eine gute Verhütungsaufklärung in Sozialen Medien stellen (F4). Methoden: Zur Beantwortung dieser vier Forschungsfragen wurde im Jahr 2022 eine präregistrierte qualitative Interviewstudie durchgeführt. Dabei wurde eine Stichprobe von N = 12 cisgeschlechtlichen heterosexuellen Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen (17 bis 25 Jahre, 50 % weiblich und 50 % männlich) im Zuge von Leitfaden-Interviews (durchschnittliche Dauer: 39 Minuten) befragt. Die Interviews wurden vollständig transkribiert und mit der qualitativen Datenanalyse-Software MAXQDA codiert. Ergebnisse: Es zeigte sich, dass die Befragten in Sozialen Medien kaum gezielt nach Verhütungsinformationen suchten, sondern diese hauptsächlich im Push-Modus zugespielt bekamen, was dann aber zu weiterer Informationssuche anregen konnte (F1). Die Befragten bewerteten Verhütungsbeiträge in Sozialen Medien vor allem dann positiv, wenn diese von Fachleuten stammten und eine hohe Informationsqualität aufwiesen (F2). Die Publikumskommentare zu den Verhütungsbeiträgen wurden als interessant und relevant eingestuft, allerdings ließen sich die Befragten nach eigenen Angaben durch diese kaum in ihren verhütungsbezogenen Einstellungen beeinflussen (F3). Als ideale Verhütungsaufklärung in Sozialen Medien wünschten sich die Befragten zielgruppengerecht aufgearbeitete Erklärvideos von Fachleuten, die verschiedene Verhütungsmethoden vergleichen und in die auch authentische positive wie negative Erfahrungsberichte von Peers integriert sind (F4). Schlussfolgerung: Aus den Befunden ergibt sich der Bedarf, Verhütungsaufklärung entsprechend der dargelegten Anforderungen in Sozialen Medien bereitzustellen. Auch sollte ein kritisch-konstruktiver Umgang mit Social-Media-Verhütungsinformationen in sexualpädagogischen Maßnahmen aufgegriffen werden.
https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2055-3160