Ausgehend von einer im Jahre 1983 durchgeführten Untersuchung von 72 Fällen zu Typen von Unternehmenskrisen wird eine Studie vorgelegt, die mit gleichem Erhebungsinstrumentarium auf ein vergleichbares, aber deutlich aktuelleres Erhebungsmaterial von 53 kritischen Unternehmensreportagen im...

Die Befragung sollte einen ersten Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie die Umsetzung tariflicher Abweichungen vom Flächentarifvertrag in der Praxis bewertet werden. Angesichts eines nach wie vor vom Flächentarifvertrag dominierten Systems industrieller Beziehungen interessierte v.a. die Praxis...

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 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...

Financial distress and market exit play a key role in ensuring an efficient allocation and may also have negative social and economic consequences like loss of employment and output in particular areas, loss of technical knowhow and expertise or disruption to important services. In this context,...

In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...