The theoretical idea of personnel economics is to apply simple economic principles to the field of human resources management. Personnel economics as a research field has grown rapidly since the first text book on “Personnel Economics” was published in 1998. The development is driven by new...

Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on both the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) that contains innovation-relevant knowledge and the regulation of the knowledge flow through the...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the main challenges imposed by demographic change on the human resource management (HRM) policies of German companies. Although many more aspects of business are affected by demographic change, such as changes in consumption or in savings and...

Altersbilder von Personalverantwortlichen in Unternehmen basieren auf unterschiedlichen Facetten des Alterns von Erwerbspersonen und können entweder auf Erfahrungen mit älteren Arbeitnehmern im eigenen Unternehmen oder einfach nur auf Images oder statistischen Charakteristika von älteren...