Publications

The KCG has various series of publications to provide research findings and policy implications to different interested groups, e.g., students, academics, policy makers and the public.

Virtue Ethics between East and West in Consumer Research: Review, Synthesis and Directions for Future Research

19th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Guli-Sanam Karimova, Nils Christian Hoffmann, Ludger Heidbrink, Stefan Hoffmann (Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, 165: 255–275)

This literature review systematically synthesizes studies that link consumer research to differences and similarities in virtue ethics between the East and the West, with a focus on early Chinese and ancient Greek virtue ethics. These two major traditions provide principles that guide consumer behavior and thus serve as a background to comparatively explain and evaluate the ethical nature of consumer behavior in the East and the West[...]

Welfare Beyond Consumption: The Benefits of Having Less

19th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Alexandra Hüttel, Ingo Balderjahn, Stefan Hoffmann (Ecological Economics, 2020, 176, Article: 106719)

In developed regions worldwide, so-called anti-consumers are increasingly resisting high-level consumption lifestyles or shifting to alternative forms of consumption. A general reduction in consumption levels is considered necessary to attain global sustainability goals[...]

Der Defining-Issues-Tests (DIT) in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Konsumforschung Die empirische Analyse von Konsumdilemmata

19th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Nils Christian Hoffmann, Sebastian Müller (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 2021, 50(9): 4-9)

Der auf der kognitiven Entwicklungstheorie moralischen Urteilens von Kohlberg basierende Defining Issues Test (DIT) ist eine Methode, mit der sich Aussagen über die moralische Urteilsfähigkeit von Individuen treffen lassen. Mit Hilfe verschiedener Indizes können Handlungsdilemmata empirisch untersucht werden und so neue Impulse für die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung gewonnen werden[...]

Interfaces of occupational health management and corporate social responsibility: a multi-centre qualitative study from Germany

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Ludger Heidbrink, Eva Kuhn, Sebastian Müller, Christoph Teusch, Grit Tanner, Marlies Schümann, Carolin Baur, Eva Bamberg, Stuart McLennan, Alena Buyx (BMC Public Health, 2021, 21:1042)

The workplace has been identified as a priority setting for health promotion. There are potential advantages of systematically integrating Occupational Health Management (OHM) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, OHM and CSR are usually overseen by different management branches with different sets of values, and there is a lack of empirical research regarding interfaces between OHM and CSR. Germany offers a particularly useful setting due to legislation requiring health to be promoted in the workplace. This study aims to examine key stakeholders’ views and experiences regarding interfaces between OHM and CSR in German companies.

Feindliche Übernahme? Chinas Auslandsinvestitionen unter der Lupe

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Gabriel Felbermayr, Moritz Goldbeck, Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp (ifo Schnelldienst, 2019, 72 (8): 27–39)

China ist mittlerweile ein wichtiger internationaler Investor. Die ausländischen Direkt- investitionen (ADI) Chinas sind von 2005 bis 2017 von 10 auf ca. 177 Mrd. US-Dollar gestiegen und haben somit stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Rund 40% der chinesischen ADI wurden im Jahr 2018 in Europa getätigt[...]

Servitization, Inequality, and Wages

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger (Labour Economics, forthcoming, 102011)

This paper studies the effect of servitization, i.e., within-establishment changes in the labor force composition towards higher shares of workers with service occupations, on within-establishment wage inequality. We identify servitization as being a main driver of increasing within-establishment wage inequality. Servitization accounts for roughly 7% of the observed increase in the within-establishment wage inequality in manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2017[...]

Can the G20 Serve as a Launchpad for a Multilateral Investment Agreement?

18th November 2021
KCG Secretary
Authors: Axel Berger, Wan-Hsin Liu (The World Economy, 2021, Vol. 44(8), 2284-2302)

The international system for the governance of foreign investments is highly fragmented consisting mainly of bilateral agreements. With the adoption of nine guiding principles for global investment policy-making in 2016, some observers argue that the G20 can actually serve as a launchpad for negotiations of a multilateral investment agreement[...]