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The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organizationon job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel(GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of thetype of working contract...

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites...

Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovativeworkplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last fewdecades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the presentstudy establishes the...

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improveenvironmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representinga new non-market valuation...

Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumesthat lives are statistical, i.e., that risks and policy-induced changes in risk are small andsimilar among a population. In reality, baseline mortality risks and policy-induced changes inrisk often differ...

Die Bedeutung der Marke als zentraler Werttreiber für Unternehmen ist in Wissenschaftund Praxis unbestritten (z.B. Aaker 1992; Burmann et al. 2003; Burmann et al. 2005;BBDO 2007; Esch 2008). Dies führt dazu, dass Unternehmen vermehrt das Markenimagein der Wahrnehmung der Kunden stärken und verbessern sowie...

The allocation of decision-making authorities may be seen as the last link in a causalrelationship starting from changes in environment and continuing to business strategy.Changes in task complexity, which can be measured by the introduction of a diversificationor an outsourcing strategy, are...

A characteristic feature of economic development is the ever changing structure ofconsumption patterns. Reducing the explanation of this phenomenon to changingprices, finally caused by changes in the availability of goods (or characteristics),would neglect a major force driving this change, i.e....