Organizational Culture and Occupational Health -- The Importance of Leadership for Occupational Health -- Public and Private Policies Promoting Occupational Health -- Evidence-Based Studies and Interventions Promoting Occupational Health.

Kai Oliver Thiele analyses M&As between companies from different cultures, which in general impose unique challenges, but also offer invaluable opportunities for all parties. Since Japan lags expectations regarding the amount of cross-border M&As, it is the more important to understand the...

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered. With its C4 management tool and reflecting the seven driving forces of corporate culture, the Values Cockpit is a powerful solution designed to steer...

‘Robert Crane's authors provide us with the kind of information we need. They do not limit themselves to present affairs, but also give us insight into the historical developments that helped to shape the present.’ -Geert Hofstede This book explores the way that culture and societal values...

Driven to the Brink is a collection of short stories about corporate disasters and how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value. Look at any major corporate meltdown and two factors emerge: a failure of corporate governance and a culture where...

This edited volume focuses on the interplay between organizational identities and firm growth, an area which remains largely unexplored. Firm growth in its various forms is omnipresent in the contemporary business environment, but does not always lead to positive results. At the same time, some...

Dieses Buch widmet sich in einer Reihe von empirischen Studien der Rolle von Kultur auf Länder-, Organisations- und Teamebene als Innovationstreiber. Verena Rieger entwickelt zunächst ein Wertesystem zur Konzeptualisierung einer innovationsförderlichen Organisationskultur. Im Anschluss...

Eine gemeinsame Wertebasis stellt in transnationalen Unternehmen eine wichtige Ressource zur Steuerung der internen Zusammenarbeit dar. Annika Elsner erläutert konkrete Wirkungspotenziale von Werten und ihre Bedeutung als Schlüsselfaktor in der transnationalen Unternehmensführung. Die Autorin...

Die Digitalisierung erfordert anderes Arbeiten, neues Denken und einen frischen Blick auf Führung. Unternehmen, die digitaler und agiler werden wollen, haben es immer mit ähnlichen Problemen und Fragestellungen zu tun. Veränderung braucht Orientierung. Dabei helfen Modelle, die die vielen...

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during MA processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a principal-multi-agent model that allows for endogenous...