This research seeks to explain changes in labor relations, the emergence of new forms of employment and its effects on unionism in the period between 1975 and 2010 in Chile. This research take into account the changes in the world of work, especially the phenomenon of labor precariousness, and...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...

Dimensionen des I-K-W-Managements und Möglichkeiten der Optimierung dieses Konzepts. Unter der Prämisse einer grundlegenden Kohärenz von Information, Kommunikation und Wissen konnte demonstriert werden, wie die Netzwerkkonzepte diesen Integrationsversuch befruchten. So wurde im ersten Kapitel...

Economic growth is a key issue in economic research and a primary concern in economic policy making. After World War II, Western economies experienced historically high rates of economic growth. However, following the first oil crisis in 1973, a period of stagflation set in and in the 1980s,...