The often long-lasting process of intrafamily business succession involves contracts for management and ownership transfer that unfold in a complex series of stages. The older and larger a family business, the more heterogeneous the involved family members' interactions and interests can become....

Financial performance is an important indicator in a company in measuring the level of viability of the company. This study aims to analyze the effect of CEO power (proxied by CEO ownership), and characteristics (CEO educational background and work experience) on firm performance as proxied by...

Determining what factors influence firm performance constitutes an essential issue in both the management and the family firm research fields. This article, building on the resource-based view perspective, develops a mediation model that involves a unique intervening mechanism, namely,...

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear “shadow of death” effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several...

Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant talent management challenges including (a) hiring freezes and layoffs; (b) salary freezes, canceled bonuses, and pay reductions; (c) how work is done (i.e., teleworking); and (d) increased employee stress and burnout. Also, COVID-19 has made it...

This article seeks to explain and understand how the strength of a human resource management (HRM) system and perceived organizational support (POS) determine employment relationships (ERs) in organizations and the behaviors they generate in terms of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and...

Das ifo Institut befragte im Auftrag der WirtschaftsWoche rund 600 Manager aus den Wirtschaftsbereichen Industrie, Bau, Handel und Dienstleistung nach ihren Einschätzungen der konjunkturellen Entwicklung im Jahr 2013 sowie zu ihren Investitions- und Beschäftigungsplänen für das neue Jahr....

Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag der Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG viermal im Jahr Personalleiter aus unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftsbereichen nach der Bedeutung verschiedener Flexibilisierungsinstrumente im Personaleinsatz, wie etwa Zeitarbeit, Überstunden oder freie Mitarbeit. Zudem...

Die Sonderfrage im zweiten Quartal 2014 thematisiert die Folgen der neuen Regelungen zur Rente mit 63 in den Unternehmen. Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse dieser Befragungen vor.