Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

The deregulation of the German energy sector changes transaction relations, trading processes and contract design. We report on the findings of a field research survey conductet in the deregulated German wholsale trading market between April and June 2000.

Recent changes in the German energy policy initiated a deregulation process from a monopolistic to a competitive market, fundamentally changing the market structure, transaction relationships and trading processes. While the mutual exchange of electric energy has been a business activity between...

Betrachtet man die Veränderungen im letzten Jahrzehnt, so gibt die Entwicklung der Elektrizitätswirtschaftin der heutigen Bundesrepublik Deutschland ein nahezu allumfassendes Bildvon der Transformation einer rein öffentlichen Aufgabe bis hin zu einem rein privatem Gut.Dabei spielten anfangs...

The aim of this paper is to review and summarise the results of selected empirical studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts.

This paper deals with the the thesis that bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less co-operation and more politicking amongst workers resulting in worse outcomes.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die Eignung eines hedonisti-schen Modells zur Bewertung des Nutzens bei Organisationsprojekten.

This paper reports on the development and application of an instrument to evaluate the overall IT fitness of medium sized enterprises. The instrument was designed in 1997 as part of an applied research project with the close co-operation of scientists and consultants, as well as variaous market...