We analyze patterns of flexible employment among the highly qualified workforce in knowledge-intensive firms. Our conceptual starting point is the Flexible Firm that can be traced back to Atkinson. On the basis of a qualitative field study in ten organizations, we show different patterns in...

The firm is the central actor for the effectuation of innovation and technological change. The large industrial laboratories of the previous century have given way to more organizationally and geographically diffuse sources of technology, placing even greater emphasis on the coordination skills...

Klappentext: Die Einführung von einheitlichen Öko-Standards geht sehr schleppend voran; die breite Einführung von Öko-Steuern ist nicht in Sicht. Welche Möglichkeiten haben Unternehmen sich dennoch ökologisch sinnvoll zu verhalten, ohne dadurch wettbewerbspolitische Nachteile in Kauf...

"This book is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology"--Provided by publisher.