Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this paper investigates variations in recruitment to...

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms[...]

Um unseren Gegenstand möglichst konkret zu machen, wählen wir einen Beispielbetrieb, dem wir den Namen IV-AG (Informationsverarbeitungs-AG) geben. Wir haben dieses Unternehmen den Strukturen eines real existierenden Herstellers von Hardware und Software nachempfunden, soweit sie öffentlich...

Das Thema, mit dem wir uns heute befassen werden, lautet: Die Beziehungen zwischen Industrie und Handel auf dem Prüfstand: Was leisten neue Kooperationskonzepte tatsächlich?

Am Beispiel des Managementteams, also aller Mitarbeier, die ihren Chef unmittelbar berichten, wird gezeigt, wie eine Gruppe geführt werden kann. Dabei kommt es zum Beispiel darauf an, ein "Wir-Gefühl" für die Gruppe zu erreichen.(...) [NetSkill/Competence Site]<p>

Co-operation is a basic concept for several logistics concepts as the co-operation ofdifferent companies in a supply chain defines possibilities and results in operationsmanagement. This paper presents a comparative view onto different approaches,namely supply chain management, efficient...

A number of authors acknowledge the academic and corporate significance of being able to measure relationships and their quality (Naudé and Buttle 1999; Buttle 1996, 1997; Anton 1994; Copulsky & Wolfe 1990; Grönroos 1991). The authors are currently pursuing such work, and herein present findings from two...

The economic success of Japan in the post-war period and various new forms of market co-ordination in European regions, and specificities of inter-firm relationships in high technology industries have increased academic and business interest in the ways that firms manage relationships between...