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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
problem of gender gap as well as employment of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112561
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Rationality of Self-Employment: Do Female and Male Entrepreneurs Differ?
Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
are especially due in wide parts to the service and health care sector. A fundamental question is how gender matters when … investigating the above-mentioned developments. Do we find specific “gender patterns” within the increasing expansion of self …’s employment, the household and children is explored, using Germany as an example. The influence of personal as well as household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112876
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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
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Investigating the cultural patterns of corruption: A nonparametric analysis
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
By using a sample of 77 countries our analysis applies several nonparametric techniques in order to reveal the link between national culture and corruption. Based on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the corruption perception index, the results reveal that countries with higher levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220678
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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694217
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National culture and multinational performance
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The question of why some multinational corporations perform better than others is in the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate. In that respect this paper provides empirical evidence by combining strategic management theories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534272
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The effect of national culture on countries’ innovation efficiency
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper contributes to the link between social and cultural factors with countries innovation performance. By measuring 25 countries’ innovation efficiency with the use of conditional and unconditional DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) frontiers the paper provides empirical evidence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919775
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Towards a culture of environmental efficiency: An application of conditional partial nonparametric frontiers
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Due to the fact that norms govern individual behavior, which in turn it is related to the environmental behaviour, this study tries to establish a link between human behavior (in terms of cultural values) and the environment. With the use of robust frontiers this paper constructs countries’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835365
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Cultural Constraints In Leading Malaysian SMEs To Global Markets
Hussain, Sayed Mushtaq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economic development of many countries. SMEs are also dominant in the Malaysian economy. Their contribution to the national economy, however, remains modest in terms of value added and exports. During the last 2-3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108753
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Corporate disclosure determinants: a cross-country investigation
Farina, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have given rise to a search for mechanisms suitable for protecting investors and regulating growing capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623427