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The Strategic Use of Temporary Agency Work – Functional Change of a Non-standard Form of Employment
Holst, Hajo; Nachtwey, Oliver; Doerre, Klaus - In: International Journal of Action Research 6 (2010) 1, pp. 108-138
Using data from the German case, the paper examines a new form of client firms’ utilization of temporary agency work that is distinctly different from traditional forms responding to production problems. Client firms, particularly from manufacturing, increasingly use temporary agency workers...
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Performance principle and organizational compensation practice in the context of the global financial crisis : a discourse-analytical study
Hartz, Ronald; Faßauer, Gabriele - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 24 (2013) 1, pp. 30-69
Criticism of the compensation practice of bonus payments was a key element of the public debate concerning the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Along with the criticism of bonuses in the financial and banking sector, the validity of the performance principle as a...
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
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Does Managerial Skill Facilitate Corporate Innovative Success?
Chen, Yangyang - 2016
This paper examines whether managerial ability facilitates corporate innovative success. First, we show that managerial ability is positively associated with innovative output. Second, we show that the positive association between managerial ability and innovative output is weaker for older CEOs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006237
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2012
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103685
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2013
CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas enhances small firms' innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals' area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091490
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Unlock the potential of regional innovation environment : the promotion of innovative behavior from the career perspective
Zhu, Yifan; Liu, Jinlan; Lin, Sheng; Liang, Kexin - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 7 (2022) 3, pp. 1-10
This study conducts an empirical analysis on the relationship between the regional innovation environment (RIE) and … scientific workers' innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449130
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Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2013
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031306
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German Economics: Mechanisms of Transformation
Libman, A. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2011) 9, pp. 129-149
The paper provides an overview of the key transformation mechanisms for the community of German economists during its internationalization and integration in the global economic community. It points out three main features of the German economics, which made this transformation possible, and...
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