Jörg Schäfer investigates the influence of family firm specific decision rationales based on socioemotional wealth on vertical and horizontal pay ranges in family firms. Building on a primary data set of over 200 family firms in Germany and applying multiple regression analysis techniques, as...

This timely book examines how the "Alaska model" can be adapted for use elsewhere, examining issues of implementation and showing that this model can be employed even in resource-poor areas in the industrialized and in the industrializing world.

Survey design -- Household demographics and work characteristics -- Non-financial assets -- Household financial assets -- Household debts -- Insurance and social welfare -- Expenditure and income -- Household wealth.

Demographischer Wandel -- Generation Y/Babyboomer -- Arbeitgeberattraktivität/Employer Branding -- Empirische Befragung: Employer of Choice der Generationen -- Handlungsempfehlungen zur Steigerung der Arbeitgeberattraktivität in Zeiten des demographischen Wandels -- War for Talent.

Demographischer Wandel in der Automobilindustrie -- Beschäftigungsfähigkeit im Altersverlauf -- Theorien und Modelle der Arbeitsgestaltung und Job Rotation -- Diskussion erster Ergebnisse einer dreijährigen Pilotstudie.

A detailed exploration of the influence and utility of Thomas Malthus' model of population growth and economic changes in Europe since the nineteenth century. This important contribution to current discussions on theories of economic growth includes discussion of issues ranging from mortality...

Nils Levsen focuses on the international diffusion of product and service innovations for elderly users. In particular, the existence and location of lead markets is being investigated. Lead markets are characterized by their early adoption of innovations and their influence on design choice in...

This volume of selected articles was released in light of the new economic, social and environmental challenges Europe and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization. National security, immigration, and the provision of...