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The paper examines cultural differences and institutional uncertainty as important factors in the development of trust as a basis for successful international business relationships. The authors focus their investigation on the potential that actors have in becoming aware of and creatively...
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The literature on the internationalisation of firms has paid little attention to SMEs. SME-oriented studies are predominantly descriptive or illustrating theoretical arguments, and those dealing with services are mostly confined to specific industries. The paper aims at correcting some of these...
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inefficiency. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on …
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Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …
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Die COVID-19-Krise verändert die Arbeitswelt. Der Lockdown zur Eindämmung der Pandemie ging in den Betrieben mit der weitgehenden Umstellung auf die Arbeit im "Homeoffice" einher: die Nutzung der betrieblichen Räume wurde stark eingeschränkt, Besprechungen wurden größtenteils auf...
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Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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This Special Issue of the Chair of Public Management's publication series presents some results of a student research … seminar. Following Mintzberg's approach of management research, we posed the question, What do public managers really do? when …Dieses Sonderheft der Schriftenreihe des Lehrstuhls für Public Management präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse eines …
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: "symbiotische Karrieretandems", "fremdbestimmte Tandems", "Sparringspartner*innen im höheren Management" und "strategische Bündnisse … im höheren Management". … management" and "strategic alliances in senior management". …
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workers, (b) management opposition against workers' organizing drives, (c) the possibility of productivity enhancing effects … of forgone productivity gains puts an upper bound on management opposition against organizing drives of the workers, even … if management opposition is cost-less. Strategic gift exchange - less opposition for higher productivity - plays a …
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