, agreement and disagreement between management and employees and their shop stewards regarding flexibility measures, and the shop … flexibility. These confrontations included the change towards wages by results and qualifications, because of disagreements on …

This paper presents a lexical definition of firms' flexibility and its operationalization as used in the DISKO survey … understanding of the firm’s flexibility and its effectiveness and how their explanations draw upon elements from the … conclusions regarding the problem of operationalization of flexibility. Results from the questionnaire survey are given as …

which classifies the surveyed firms according to smaller and higher degrees of flexibility. The classification reveals a … cooperative relationships. Finally, there is a strong positive correlation between increasing degrees of flexibility and …

flexibility and combine technical and organisational innovation in order to meet this challenge. However, 1/3 of the N …