The present paper examines the relationship between fixed-term employment and jobsatisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP).According to theoretical expectations, fixed-term employment should be associated with arelative low level of job satisfaction,...

Increasingly, retailers nowadays have to focus on service marketing strategies and tactics to differentiate themselves from their competitors.Delivering high levels of service quality becomes crucial for long-term success. Since customers' perception of service quality depends very muchon the...

The focus of the paper is on the remuneration of executives of large European banks. We describe the pay-for-performance sensitivity of the compensation and its disclosure as two dimensions of the board remuneration systems in the European countries.

The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance con-tinues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salariesenjoyed by senior executives in corporations primarily in the North American coun-tries are often contrasted with the relatively low...

Globalisierung und Deregulierung bringen den Unternehmen in vielerlei Hinsichtneue Möglichkeiten, ihr wirtschaftliches Handeln zu optimieren. Aber sowie durch diesen schnellen Wandel und die steigende Komplexität von Geschäftenmehr Optionen entstehen, werden auch immer mehr neuartige...

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....

Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovativeworkplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last fewdecades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the presentstudy establishes the...

Das Konzept des persönlichen Informationsmanagements (PIM) wird in diesem Arbeitpapier als notwendige Ergänzung strategischer und operativer Ansätze des Informationsmanagements entfaltet.Der Bezeichnung entsprechend wird eine personelle Sichtweise eingenommen, die den...

In diesem Arbeitspapier werden Regelwerke betrachtet, aus denen rechtliche Vorgaben für die IT des Unternehmens resultieren. Dies umfasst Gesetze und Rechtsverordnungen, Verwaltungsvorschriften, referenzierte Regelwerke und Urteile sowie Verträge. Die wichtigsten in der Praxis relevanten und...

Based on the LEN-model KRAPP (1999, 2000) analyses for different constellations howcollusive behaviour of agents influences the principal’s welfare. We try to complement this analysisby considering additional scenarios. Furthermore, we take into account that the principal cannot ap-praise...