For decades, some governments have fiercely opposed any statute of the Societas Europaea that foresaw German-type co-determined supervisory boards. Considering firms as pools of specific investors, we ask about the conditions that are necessary to secure the interests of specific human...

Up to now, very little is known about human resource policies in Sino-foreign joint ventures and foreign subsidiaries in China. It is, therefore, the aim of this project to study variations in personnel strategies in order to find an economically reasonable explanation for the differing...

Die Effizienz der Mitbestimmung auf Betriebs- und Unternehmensebene wird in diesem Beitrag aus einer mikroökonomischer Perspektive betrachtet. Unser Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf der Frage, ob aus dem nicht oder zumindest nur seltenen freiwilligen Zustandekommen von Mitbestimmungsregelungen auf...

The current debate about 'Modell Deutschland' has been prompted by the global financial crisis that emerged in 2008 and the Hartz labour market reforms in Germany. Six contributions concerning labour market reform, production systems, vocational education and training, industrial relations,...

The latest trends and developments on employment-related collective bargaining in Germany during the reference period are analysed in this study. We start with a quantitative overview on recent collective agreements and then describe the main types of measures negotiated in the newly concluded...

The Treaty of Maastricht (1993) and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999) strongly institutionalised and formalised the relationship between the social partners at the level of the European Union (EU). It is self-evident that notion of social dialogue also includes collective bargaining, the conclusion...

The concept of organisational capital is multifaceted and often inadequately demarcated from related concepts like human or social capital. We define organisational capital as an agglomeration of technologies - business practices, processes and designs - that enable firms to gain a sustainable...