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Family Management, Family Ownership and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500 Firms
Block, Jörn Hendrich - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
Little is known about the relationship between family firms and their employees. This paper aims to close this gap. We distinguish between family management and family ownership as two dimensions of family firms and analyze their respective influence on downsizing. Our findings show that family...
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Die Führung innovativer Teamsunter Berücksichtigung rechtlicherund psychologischer Aspekte
Grosse, Diana; Ullman, Robert; Weyh, Enrico - Bergakademie <Freiberg> / Fakultät für … - 2006
Innovationen bilden ein wirksames Instrument zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens. Sie werden durchgeführt, indem nacheinander die Aufgaben der Ideensuche, Ideenentwicklung, Produktion der ersten Serie und der Markteinführung abgearbeitet werden. Die dafür geeignete...
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Business and Intercultural Communication Issues : Three Contributions to Various Aspects of Business Communication
Hinner, Michael B.; Dreisörner, Mirjam; Felich, Antje; … - Technische Universität <Freiberg> / Fachbereich … - 2004
This paper describes psychological contracts and how they are created. Even though the phenomenon of the psychological contract can be observed in a variety of relationships, this paper solely discusses psychological contracts in business settings. The paper discusses in particular how...
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Female Presence on Corporate Boards: A Multi-Country Study of Environmental Context
Terjesen, Siri; Singh, Val - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...
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Diversity Management und diversitätsbasiertesControlling: Von der „Diversity Scorecard“ zur„Open Balanced Scorecard"
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2009
In recent years, diversity management has evolved from a perspective on human resourcesmanagement toward a conception of strategic management. This implies the need to adapt acentral management function, strategic controlling, in order to render the conception of diversitymanagement in...
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Fallstudie: “Pathologie der Organisation”Fehlentwicklungen in Organisationen,ihre Bedeutung und Ansätze zur Vermeidung
Klein, Helmut - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften <Amberg - 2008
Aktuelle Studien zur Arbeitssituation in Unternehmen belegen Einzelaspekte wieProduktivitätsverluste, fehlende emotionale Bindung der Mitarbeiter und Defizite imManagementverhalten. Die Thematik wird in dieser Fallstudie in einem interdisziplinärenAnsatz untersucht. Basierend auf dem Modell...
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
Gibbs, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for … thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for … performance inpractice.... …
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Executives´ Compensation of European Banks - Disclosure, Sensitivity and their Impact on Bank Performance
Burghof, Hans-Peter; Hofmann, Christian - 2000
The focus of the paper is on the remuneration of executives of large European banks. We describe the pay-for-performance …
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Executive Pay and Corporate Financial Performance. An Explorative Data Analysis
Schwalbach, Joachim; Graßhoff, Ulrike; Sperlich, Stefan - 1999
The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance con-tinues to attract wide academic, media … on executive pay has mainly concentrated on thepay-performance relationship. Although the adopted data sets were very … dfferentwithin and across countries, the results are very similar and show very low pay-for-performance elasticities. Despite the …
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2002
A theory of responsibility is provided in a simple model where agents care for their career prospects. First, two agents with uncertain abilities work on a task. Second, a principal decides to promote one of them. Three types of equilibria occur. One in which no agent is responsible for the task...
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