Seit Jahresbeginn 2006 steht der US-Dollar unter Abwertungsdruck. Dadurchverändert sich die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Ländern und Unternehmen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt kurz verschiedene betriebliche Währungsrisiken auf und geht dann auf langfristig relevante ökonomische...

This study focuses on the non-financial value-added of venture capital investors (VCs) as perceived by the CEOs of Finnish biotechnology companies. It pays attention to differences in the value-added between informal venture capitalists, private sector venture capitalists and public sector...

The paper reports an empirical study on the non-financial value-added provided by Venture Capital investors to their investee firms. This study will use a four-class grouping of the various non-financial value-adding capabilities provided by VC firms, namely, scouting, monitoring, signalling and...

Familienunternehmen sind ein wesentliches Rückgrat der deutschen Industrie. Wie Analysen der ISI-Erhebung Modernisierung der Produktion zeigen, setzen insbesondere inhabergeführte Familienunternehmen auf eine tragfähige Balance zwischen Flexibilität und langfristiger Stabilität und...

Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, eine systematische Bestandsaufnahme zum Status quo der Personalforschung im Kulturbereich vorzunehmen. In die Untersuchung einbezogen wurden Studien, die sich empirisch mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen und im deutsch- und englischsprachigen Raum in...

Human resource management is experiencing a time of great changes and is, thereby, facing new challenges and roles. It is no longer enough merely to adapt to the ongoing changes. Instead human resource management needs to increase its concern of how to create the future. Old beliefs, thinking...

Technological optimistic voices assume that, from a technical perspective, the IT possibilities for HRM are endless: in principal all HR processes can be supported by IT. E-HRM is the relatively new term for this IT supported HRM, especially through the use of web technology. This paper aims at...

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locallyowned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational...

This paper is concerned with examining the implications of inter-organisational relationships for human resource management (HRM). To date much of the literature on human resource management has been inwardly focussed on the organisation and its employees. Yet increasingly complex organisational...