Die Züge im Fernverkehr kommen zu spät, die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Einheiten funktioniert nicht, die Gewinnprognosen sind pessimistisch, der Güterverkehr fährt Verluste ein und die Infrastruktur ist unterfinanziert: die Deutsche Bahn steht in der Kritik. Wie lassen sich spürbare...

Strategic Management is a concept that concerns with making decisions and taking corrective actions to achieve long term targets and goals of an organization. The importance of strategic management in a firm can be answered by analyzing relationship between strategic management and...

The mirror for (artificial) intelligence: In whose reflection?' sets out the parameters for caution in considering as-yet relatively un-debated issues in artificial intelligence (AI) research, which is the concept itself of 'intelligence'. After the AI 'winters' ending in the late 1990s, during...

In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...

This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that innovative human resource practices tend to limit the...

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

Im Rahmen einer umfassenden betrieblichen Compliance, also der Gewährleistung einer gesetzestreuen und regelkonformen, ordnungsgemäßen Unternehmensführung, ist durch geeignete Kontrollen sicher zu stellen, dass Gesetzesverstöße und regelwidriges Verhalten im Unternehmen sowie aus ihnen...