This article deals with the question to what extent Resource Dependence Theory(RDT) is able to explain behavior of organizations. Behavior is understood here in awide sense, it includes actions and decision making as well as “non-decision-making”(Bachrach/Baratz 1977) and results of decision...

What are the reasons behind the different human resource management strategies –human resource management strategies understood as patterns of action for “dealingwith” the human resources or the work force of an organization? Why do we on onehand have human resource management strategies,...

Several aspects of employment relations within the academic profession in Germany havecome under great pressure to change as a result of political decisions during the last decade.The presented paper aims to describe the perceptible impact of that process for the differentgroups of academics...

The paper compares two models of evolution in symmetric twoplayergames with incomplete information. One model postulates thatthe type of a player is fixed, and evolution works within types. Inthe other model type-contingent strategies evolve. In the case of twotypes and two strategies it is...

A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article – in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies...