Knowledge management may be treated both narrowly and broadly. The understanding of the nature of knowledge, including its classification, is important for improving knowledge management. There are distinguished 6 forms of knowledge: ignorance, data, information, knowledge, wisdom and truth (an...

The marketing discipline has in recent years greatly transformed. The marketing concept has been extended, deepened, the redefined and repositioned. In the last fifteen years, many authors point out that the marketing of a variety of factors occurred in the mature phase that is in crisis and...

Most research into the early telephone system has focused on telephone providers rather than users, and this article begins to address that imbalance. The telephone was initially used to improve internal communications within firms, by connecting offices with warehouses, or by enabling staff...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether job assignment, based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ abilities, can explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms. Design/methodology/approach – The Gibbons and Waldman model is estimated in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the net relationship between internal wage dispersion and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical investigation of the relationship between internal wage dispersion and firm performance is performed using linked...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of job satisfaction on the intended retirement age of self-employed and organisationally-employed white-collar professionals. The analysis also examines potential boundary conditions imposed by other domains of life for the...

Im Zuge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung wurden die formalen Institutionen in West- und Ostdeutschland schnell angeglichen. Dies galt insbesondere auch für die Kapitelmärkte. Nach Einrichtung eines Wertpapierdepots konnten nun auch Ostdeutsche risikobehaftete Wertpapiere unterschiedlichster Art...