Managing work-life balance (WLB) has become an issue for both employees and HR departments since WLB tensions may reduce performance, overall job satisfaction and finally, increase the fluctuation rate. Having a balance between job and non-work is a particular challenge for international...

Der Erforschung von Vergütungssystemen für Führungskräfte und gehobene Fachkräfte in Forprofit-Unternehmen wird in der Personalmanagementforschung hohe Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Hingegen wurde diese Thematik bislang für Nonprofit- Organisationen (NPO) kaum untersucht. In diesem Beitrag wird...

This research analyzes the debate surrounding the network neutrality in Korea through the lens of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), trying to map the socio-technical network formed around the network neutrality controversy. We intend to reassemble the heterogeneous elements involved in this network...

Der Aufsatz setzt sich mit dem tiefgreifenden, aber gänzlich unabgeschlossenen, Wandelder sozialwissenschaftlichen Technikforschung in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten auseinander. In durchaus autobiographisch gefärbter Form wird auf unterschiedliche Versuche verwiesen, technische Artefakte...

The 2007-9 period saw an unprecedented crisis emerge in global financial markets with the collapse of several large western financial institutions, and the nearest moment of systemic crisis yet witnessed in the globalized financial system. The crisis has thus provoked a significant questioning...

This paper studies the role of budgets in implementing the systems integration strategies in an Australian post-acquisition case of two organisations and reducing its associated often-regarded high risks. It attempts a fresh narrative approach to examine the evolution of accounting and its...

This study identifies and analyzes the causes for WiBro's failure in the Korean telecommunications market within the context of the technological systems framework and the actor-network theory. The reverse salients of WiBro were identified according to the activities of the actors from three...

Is it feasible to apply Agile Project Management methods known from the area of software development to general and project management tasks in engineering? Doing so, is it possible to increase employee motivation and engagement?

We present an object-oriented software framework allowing to specify, solve, and estimate nonlinear dynamic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. The implemented solution methods for finding the unknown policy function are the standard linearization around the deterministic steady state, and a...

Aim: The purpose of this paper is to identify common mistakes and pitfalls as well as best practices in estimating labor intensity in software projects. The quality of estimations in less experienced teams is often unsatisfactory, as a result of which estimation as part of the software...