Mit der vorgelegten Dissertation wird ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um Beschäftigungssicherung unter veränderten globalen und betrieblichen Beziehungen geleistet. Aufgezeigt werden betriebliche Strategien im Umgang mit Beschäftigungskrisen in der Metall- und Elektroindustrie und der Beitrag...

This paper is dealing with the relationships between HRM, company performance and employee well-being. The relationship between S/HRM and company performance has received much attention in prior literature, while the employee perspective has been widely neglected in this research tradition. The...

This paper provides causal evidence of the impact of industrial policy on firms' long-term performance and quantifies industrial policy's long-term welfare effects. Using a natural experiment and unique historical data during the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) Drive in South Korea, we find...

Implications of Industry 4.0 for enterprises in Upper Bavaria are still unclear. This working paper examines how key technologies of Industry 4.0 impact on performance objectives. The research methodology is based on a quantitative study carried out in in the larger area of Upper Bavaria with a...

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses ﾖ namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

Price setting in German metal-working industries is analysed using a monthly panel of individual price data for more than 2,000 plants covering the period from 1980 to 2001. Motivated by several models in the literature, a duration model is estimated. Price changes can be explained by a...

Im Frühjahr dieses Jahres versuchte die IG Metall, die 35-Stunden-Woche auch in Ostdeutschland einzuführen. Damit setzte sie sich erheblicher – zum Teil ideologisch gefärbter – Kritik aus Wissenschaft, Politik und Medien aus. Dies umso mehr, als die Wirtschaft auf eine Rezession...