Vienna University of Economics and Business

Economic impacts of subsea cable deployment

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economic impact of submarine cable (SMC) infrastructure, which is critical for global digital connectivity and carries almost all intercontinental data traffic. Despite their fundamental role in the digital economy, ro...

Intersectional justice as a guiding principle for feminist ecological economics

Ecological economics focuses on provisioning for a good life for all within planetary boundaries. Feminist ecological economists have long highlighted the relevance of unpaid care work, times beyond linear clock time, and social-ecological provisioning towards this same end. In t...

Supporting SME Growth Through Inclusion: Leading a Young Female Professional During Divorce

This teaching case explores the managerial challenges faced by a young female professional going through a divorce while working at a growing small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME). Using divorce as an example of a significant personal life event, the case illustrates how extern...

Who is being addressed now? Establishing recipiency in video assistant referee (VAR) protocols

Abstract This article examines how video assistant referees (VARs) and on-field referees (REFs) establish recipiency in headset-mediated communication during professional football matches. A VAR is part of an off-field video review team that monitors the broadcast feed and can re...

CliPS: How to identify cluster distributions in Bayesian mixture models

Abstract We propose the CliPS procedure when fitting Bayesian mixture models in the context of model-based clustering to identify the cluster distributions while simultaneously assessing the suitability of a cluster solution and validating the cluster structure. The procedure rel...

Diversifying for resilience: how supply base international diversification relates to supply base sustainability performance

Abstract Recent work in international business views supply base international diversification (SBID) as an important strategy for strengthening multinational enterprises’ (MNEs’) resilience to country-level disruptions. However, it remains unclear how this resilience-oriented st...

Impact pathway: beyond automation and augmentation – a relational ontology of AI in operations and supply chain management

Purpose As companies deploy increasingly agentic forms of AI to coordinate and manage workflows, AI can no longer be understood as a discrete technological tool added to existing operations and supply chains. We propose a relational ontology as an alternative theoretical foundati...

A NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR SIZE CONTROLLABILITY OF HETEROSKEDASTICITY ROBUST TEST STATISTICS

We revisit size controllability results in Pötscher and Preinerstorfer (2025, Econometric Theory 41, 249–301) concerning heteroskedasticity robust test statistics in regression models. For the special, but important, case of testing a single restriction (e.g., a zero restriction...

Ending the VAR protocol: How referee joint decisions become final in football

This study explores how Video Assistant Referee (VAR) protocols are closed in professional football. Drawing on 107 recordings released by the Turkish Football Federation in 2024–2025, it uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to investigate how referees and VAR official...

The skill premium across countries in the era of industrial robots and artificial intelligence

How do new technologies affect economic growth and the skill premium? To answer this question, we analyze the impacts of industrial robots and artificial intelligence (AI) across 52 countries using counterfactual simulations. In so doing, we simulate the nested CES production fun...

Mapping Boundary Conditions and Bottlenecks of Learning Analytics Dashboard Acceptance: A Cross-Group and Cross-Design Comparison

Drawing on extended Technology Acceptance Model, this study argues that learner's Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs) data literacy and LAD cognitive complexity are boundary conditions that shape learner LAD acceptance. Two learner groups, one with LAD data literacy and another...

Revisiting the “Care Penalty” in the Portuguese Labor Market: Uncovering (Gender) Pay Differentials in Long‐Term Care

ABSTRACT Focusing on the distinctive characteristics of the highly gendered long‐term care (LTC) sector, in this study, we analyze wages and earnings within caring sectors through an integrated theoretical approach that includes theories of ageism, compensating wage differentials...

Regime Shifts and Transformations in Social-Ecological Systems: Advancing Critical Frontiers for Safe and Just Futures

Current research challenges in sustainability science require us to consider nonlinear changes—shifts that do not happen gradually but can be sudden and difficult to predict. Central questions are therefore how we can prevent harmful shifts, promote desirable ones, and better ant...

The regional determinants of per-capita CO$$_2$$ emissions growth in Europe

Abstract We identify empirically the determinants of per-capita CO $$_2$$ emissions growth in 227 European NUTS-2 regions for the period 1995–2022. In order to account for geographical spillovers of unknown form, we employ Bayesian averaging of spatial autoregressive models, addr...

Does TikTok promote or cannibalize music streaming? Estimands and identification with heavy-tailed outcomes

Abstract We study how TikTok affects demand for music on paid streaming platforms in the context of Universal Music Group’s (UMG) global withdrawal of its catalog from TikTok. Recent studies using this quasi-natural experiment have reached different conclusions about whether TikT...

Reframing urban livability through stakeholder salience: A citizen-centered model

Livability has become a central objective in urban governance, yet despite its growing prominence, the concept remains vague, normative, and often detached from the lived realities of citizens. This study adopts a citizen-centered perspective to examine how citizens perceive and...