The increasing overload of information that bothers people is affecting businesses on online job boards as well. Although there is no doubt about the benefits of those platforms, companies are threatened to get lost in the sheer mass of similar advertisements. Considering the background of the...

Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt in Verbindung der sozial- und pensionsrechtlichen Veränderungen wurde im Auftrag des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich, Abteilung Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsinformation eine Analyse der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik für...

"Digitalisierung", "Internationalisierung", "Spezialisierung" und "Flexibilisierung" sind nur einige Schlagwörter, die die Arbeitswelt von heute prägen. Sie durchdringen zunehmend alle betrieblichen Leistungsprozesse und verändern die Anforderungen an die MitarbeiterInnen aller...

In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly moved to the plant/unit and firm level of analysis...

Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The first focuses on the distinction between exogenous, location dependent comparative cost advantages, such as the relative abundance of capital or labour, and endogenously created...

This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...

Labour demand and wages depend on the state and volatility of relationships within firms. Good relationships lower profit-maximising wages and raise firms’ profits and hence constitute an asset to the firm. Wages are lower because when people enjoy collaborating in the absence of wage...