Einführung -- Wirtschaftsverbände und Organisation — Zentrale Begriffe und theoretische Grundlagen -- Mitgliederorientiertes Management in Wirtschaftsverbänden — Erfordernis und Herausforderung -- Zu Stand und aktuellen Problemen des Verbandsmanagements und der Verbandsorganisation —...

Wirtschaftsverbände in der Schweiz wie in Deutschland sind seit einigen Jahren mit verstärktem Wettbewerb konfrontiert. Um dem daraus resultierenden Mitgliederschwund und dem damit einhergehenden Verlust des Verbandes an Macht und Einfluss entgegenzuwirken, sollten der ökonomische Erfolg und...

Kollektive Leistungen als charakteristisches Handlungsfeld von Wirtschaftsverbänden -- Entwicklung eines Qualitätsmodells für kollektive Leistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden -- Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Qualitätsplanung und Qualitätslenkung kollektiver Leistungen von...

This book explores how British and German business associations formed their political attitudes towards Economic and Monetary Union between 1988 and 1998. With provocative argument and unique insight, it demonstrates how business associations are political entities in their own right, acting...

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This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis. In addition to case studies of employee voice in the workplace, it also looks at emerging forms of voice associated with the use of technology such as social media. Because of the breadth...

This book examines current and emerging challenges in manufacturing related to the ideal of developing production processes with variability and agility on one level of the system, combined with structures ensuring stability and robustness on another level; close to what by other scholars has...

This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system. The third industrial revolution saw citizens, companies, and the economy acting in functional networks rather than in...