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.

The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies to aging. The groundbreaking findings open a completely new field of research. The author gets away from the human centered vision of life showing that aging in any organism does not necessarily...

The term ‘wasta’ stems from the Arabic root for ‘middle’ or ‘medium' and describes the phenomenon of using ‘connections’ to find job, government services or other favors to circumvent bureaucracy or bypass the system as a whole. The effects of ‘wasta’ may be both positive or...

Problemstellung: Von der Organisation der manuellen Arbeit zur Organisation der Wissensarbeit -- Die Produktion von Wissen und die Organisation der Wissensarbeit -- Sozialkapital und Vertrauen -- Das modell über den Zusammenhang von Vertrauen und Sozialkapital -- Abschließende Bemerkung --...

Social embeddedness has been identified as a critical success factor for operations of MNCs in low-income markets. Based on survey data gathered from two subsidiaries of a European MNC, Dina Badry examines relational and structural network aspects with regard to their influence on the success of...

"Guanxi and Business Strategy" elaborates upon a topic of paramount importance to both academic scholars and managers doing business with China: the impact of personal relationships (guanxi) on business affairs. In the Chinese cultural and socio-economic environment, how are the ubiquitous...

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the...

Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension systems in the face of demographic change. This study, however, also takes into account distributional effects involved in pension system structures. Theoretical,...