This Special Issue of the Chair of Public Management’s publication series presents some results of a student research seminar. Following Mintzberg’s approach of management research, we posed the question, "What do public managers really do?" when it comes to managing their organizations. The...

Information on individuals holding a managerial or supervisory positions within establishments is important for various aspects of labor market research. However, identifying managers or supervisors in German administrative records is not straightforward. This paper uses survey information from...

Intro -- Geleitwort -- Danksagung -- Zusammenfassung -- -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Ausgangslage und Problemstellung -- 1.2 Forschungsrelevanz und Forschungsfeld -- 1.3 Forschungsfrage und Zielsetzung -- 1.4 Vorgehensweise und Aufbau der Arbeit -- 2 Theoretische Grundlagen,...