Drawing on the literature on organizational psychology, this paper discusses the potential of studying corporate culture and organizational behaviour for financial supervision. First, we discuss how corporate culture is often linked to long-term firm performance. From that perspective, factoring...

In diesem Bericht werden die Zwischenergebnisse der Begleitforschung 2012 bis 2013 zum Modellvorhaben LandZukunft des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL) vorgestellt. Das Modellvorhaben läuft von 2012 bis Ende 2014 in vier aus ursprünglich 17 Landkreisen ausgewählten...

"Trust" or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable attention by economists in the last 8-10 years. In this contribution, much emphasis is put on the understanding what we really mean by "confidence", what the differences between...

Companies desiring to keep and improve their competitive advantage must be flexible enough to undergo change when needed. Meaningful change requires the ability to learn from their own as well as from others' experience. But learning is not easy, and there are many factors that may prevent it to...

The scale and complexity of change in software process improvement (SPI) are considerable and managerial attention to organizational culture during SPI can therefore potentially contribute to successful outcomes. However, we know little about the impact of variations in organizational subculture...

2001 wurde mit dem Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz der Teilzeitanspruch eingefuehrt. Die Bundesregierung erhoffte sich enorme beschaeftigungswirksame Effekte, da der Rechtsanspruch die Arbeitszeitwuensche vieler Beschaeftigter traf. Auf Arbeitgeberseite stiess das Gesetz hingegen auf harte...

Organizational behaviour research possesses some endemic problems which constrict its progress. This introduction to Management Revue?s special issue on organizational behaviour debates six deficiencies in the current research: an unclear conception of how to understand the ?organizational? in...

This paper analyzes the role of the initial allocation of ownership rights in transactions where parties make relationship-specific investments and contracts are incomplete. If there is high mutual dependence in production, the initial allocation of ownership rights is irrelevant. This result...

The aim of this article is to provide information about using Ryff’s Scales of Psychological Well-Being in Slovenia. Based on the initial presentation of the concept of psychological well-being (PWB), this article subsequently presents the results of empirical research in the PWB of employees...

The paper compares the organizational behaviour in CFR and Deutsche Bahn, from the point of view of employees, as well as managers, outlining possible similarities and best practices which can be, potentially, transferred. The main issues in focus regard what are the elements which contribute to...