The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on 'patrimonialism' and 'neopatrimonialism' as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in particular is concerned. To overcome the catch-all use of the concept the authors present their own definition of...

Bis dato gibt es nur wenige Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland, die aus dem Ausland stammen: Über die Hälfte der Befragten gaben in der Akademie-Studie 2015 an, höchstens ein paar Mitarbeiter oder Kollegen zu haben, auf die dies zutrifft. Bei fast 40 Prozent ist es bei keinem einzigen der Fall....

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht ist ein Grundstein für das junge Forschungsfeld "Führung im Kommunikationsmanagement". Im Mittelpunkt steht eine Zusammenfassung der ersten internationalen Studie zu dem Thema mit über 4.000 Befragten aus 23 Ländern. Dabei geht es insbesondere um den...

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...

This article introduces a model of productive leadership structures. It is based on the idea that structures should stimulate dialectical processes which activate functional and simultaneously restrict dysfunctional behavioural tendencies of the management team. The structural dialectics are...

Drawing on identity and social comparison theories, we propose and test a model of motivation to lead based on two types of self-to-role comparisons (i.e., self-comparisons with specific leaders and with more abstract representations of the leadership role). We propose that these comparisons...

The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...