Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …

In this paper we discuss determinants of firm survival and growth in Germany within its pre-1989 boundaries. We develop …

phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change management as a measure against it. A second branch of the empirical … management measures or union activities in order to predict employee resistance against innovations seems too narrow. …