A reified opposition between social cooperation (stakeholderism) and Neoliberal market solutions paralyzes political and scientific debate on reform in Germany today. This essay rejects that opposition by recasting the way in which each of the categories is understood. Pressure to become more...

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate— primarily service-producing activities—total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

For almost twenty years researchers have predicted the end of personnel as HRM practices increasingly became a line management function. However, while useful for describing shifts in human resource responsibilities, this practice-based view obscures the fundamental strategic reason for this...

This paper analyzes the linkages among group incentive methods of compensation, labor practices, worker assessments of workplace culture, turnover, and firm performance in a non-representative sample of companies: firms that applied to the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" competition...

This paper sets out to propose the techniques that enable corporations to develop and to implement robust strategies under conditions of severe uncertainty. Through the correction of the traditional definition of stakeholders I found the general algorithm for achieving robustness in corporate...

Although the population in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) is still younger, on average, than in Western Europe, the CEEC also have to cope with challenges caused by the demographic shift towards an ageing, shrinking population. Some countries are ageing even faster than Western...

Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung sind zentrale Werte unserer heutigen Arbeitswelt: Die Beziehungen zwischen Organisationen und Arbeitskräften werden marktorientierter, Beschäftigungsrisiken müssen zunehmend von Individuen getragen werden und Unternehmertum wird zum Ideal arbeitnehmerischen...

Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung sind zentrale Werte unserer heutigen Arbeitswelt: Die Beziehungen zwischen Organisationen und Arbeitskraeften werden marktorientierter, Beschaeftigungsrisiken muessen zunehmend von Individuen getragen werden und Unternehmertum wird zum Ideal arbeitnehmerischen...