The new economy and the knowledge-based society brought significant changes in all the areas of our daily lives. Also, the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis implicated tremendous transformations in all the domains, on the one hand, threatening the balance of our society and, on the other...

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using comparative data from three European countries: the Czech Republic, Finland and Norway. The analysis is undertaken in two steps. First, we explore the wage differentials and the...

While many studies have examined the relationship between investment in intangibles assets and performance in large corporations, current research is lacking in regard to intangible investments in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study looks at SMEs in which intangible investments would...

Labour demand and wages depend on the state and volatility of relationships within firms. Good relationships lower profit-maximising wages and raise firms’ profits and hence constitute an asset to the firm. Wages are lower because when people enjoy collaborating in the absence of wage...

This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes zur Reform einer öffentlichen Verwaltung thematisiert der Beitrag die Übertragung personalwirtschaftlicher Praktiken des privaten Sektors auf öffentliche Verwaltungen. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz eines New Public Management implizieren die Annahmen des...

The success of Google Maps suggests that free access to public sector information (PSI) contributes to a prosperous economy. While there has been considerable attention for legal and economical considerations concerning the implications of policies on public sector information (PSI), also...

Research Question: This study will explore how private sector financial management technologies (specifically, risk management system, fraud and corruption control system and internal audit) become embedded in a selected public sector organisation. Motivation: The motivation for this study is to...

Die Wirkung der Governance im New Public Management (NPM) auf das Erleben der Mitarbeiter wird am Beispiel der Tätigkeit in Jobcentern auf der Basis von Befragungsdaten untersucht. Die Einstellung der Mitarbeiter wird stresstheoretisch auf Grundlage des Modells der beruflichen...