"Obgleich das Schwerbehindertengesetz (SchwbG) alle öffentlichen und privaten Arbeitgeber mit mehr als fünfzehn Beschäftigten dazu verpflichtet, die (Wieder-)Eingliederung Schwerbehinderter in das Erwerbsleben zu fördern, kommen nur etwas mehr als 20% der Arbeitgeber dieser Verpflichtung...

The Treaty of Maastricht (1993) and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999) strongly institutionalised and formalised the relationship between the social partners at the level of the European Union (EU). It is self-evident that notion of social dialogue also includes collective bargaining, the conclusion...

Firms develop their organizational practices to realize returns from given and marketable resources. Implementing effective practices requires substantial up-front investment. We approximate the economic relevance of establishment-specific organizational capital by using a two-step procedure....

For decades, some governments have fiercely opposed any statute of the Societas Europaea that foresaw German-type co-determined supervisory boards. Considering firms as pools of specific investors, we ask about the conditions that are necessary to secure the interests of specific human...

Die Effizienz der Mitbestimmung auf Betriebs- und Unternehmensebene wird in diesem Beitrag aus einer mikroökonomischer Perspektive betrachtet. Unser Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf der Frage, ob aus dem nicht oder zumindest nur seltenen freiwilligen Zustandekommen von Mitbestimmungsregelungen auf...

Up to now, very little is known about human resource policies in Sino-foreign joint ventures and foreign subsidiaries in China. It is, therefore, the aim of this project to study variations in personnel strategies in order to find an economically reasonable explanation for the differing...

In many European countries efforts are undertaken to improve doctoral education. In the context of new public governance in the Higher Education sector, less state, more competition, less academic self-governance, more internal hierarchy and more influence by external stakeholders under the...