Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

Reports the findings of a study which examined the attitudes of East and West German managers to the process of strategic industrial change following German reunification. Acknowledges the importance of organizational and national culture, specifically in relation to the process of strategic...

The transitional problems of formerly centrally planned economies have received much attention, in terms of both economic advice and wider academic consideration. In order to develop concrete gap‐bridging measures, micro as well as macro economic concerns need to be addressed and timing and...

Describes key developments in public policy towards the distributive sector in various socio‐economic contexts. Attempts to explain its evolution in terms of the changes in economic structure and political priorities. Examines capitalist, socialist and Third World economies, respectively....

From a comparative viewpoint, German personnel management can be seen as a configuration shaped by a specific form of “corporatism”, worker participation, and the educational system (particularly the apprenticeship tradition). Although challenges from new technology and internationalization...

Zusammenfassung Ein wesentliches Problem des deutschen Finanzausgleichs ist die zu einer drastischen Einschränkung der Länderautonomie führende ungleichmäßige Verteilung der Teilkompetenzen auf die Gebietskörperschaften. Dieses Problem ließe sich durch ein Trennsystem lösen, in dem auf...

Summary This is a short note on two potential worries surrounding a scenario of falling rents in East Germany. These worries, put forward by Wolfgang Maennig, are: (1) that housing suppliers could withdraw as rents fall, while (2) housing demanders might hesitate to expand consumption as rents...