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International acquisitions are extremely difficult to maneuver and success is far from guaranteed. Navigating through financial statements is one thing, but trying to link together two or more geographically and culturally diverse workforces is an entirely another thing. This study analyzes...
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Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human resource management techniques, and...
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What relationship exists between working conditions and teacher turnover in child-care (early care and education) programs? Research has shown high staff turnover is a major factor affecting the quality of care. Using a new survey and data set I designed of union and randomly selected non-union...
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This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
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I explore patterns in regard to community based Research and Development in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector. I set a bibliometric analysis, covering the 1998-2008 period, by means of applying a framework based on three factors: productivity, collaboration, and research topics, which are...
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The goal of this research is to elucidate the idea of integrated thinking, which was introduced in the Integrated Reporting (IR) initiative for the disclosure of non-financial data, because it has not been thoroughly studied and there is no consensus on its meaning. The literature on integrated...
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Teleworking is a form of organising and performing work, by which the employee works in another place than the work place organised by the employer and uses information and communication technology. The purpose of this paper is mapping the research trends of teleworking. For this, we conducted a...
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Detailliert wird ein ganzheitliches Konzept für das Diversity Management erschlossen. Dabei wird die Relevanz des Unternehmensleitbildes, der Führung, der Kommunikation und des Organisationsklimas für eine diversity-gerechte Unternehmenskultur gezeigt und die Bedeutung für zwei...
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Das Personalmanagement in der Mongolei bewegt sich zwischen Emanzipation und Transformation. Wird es weiter so …
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Personalmanagement-Stilen und Arbeitsnormen zu Problemen in der täglichen Arbeit führen können und wie man diese Probleme vermeiden bzw … 'internationales Personalmanagement' und 'Arbeitsnormen' referiert, im praktischen Teil wurden leitfaden-orientierte Interviews mit … Unterschiede im Personalmanagement und den Arbeitsnormen, die auf die unterschiedlichen Kulturen zurückzuführen sind, aufgezeigt …
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