Unternehmensleitbilder zählen zum Standardrepertoire moderner Unternehmensführung. Was aber kennzeichnet ein Unternehmensleitbild? Zu wissen, was ein Leitbild zum Leitbild macht, bedeutet auch, "richtig" bzw. "normal" von "falsch" bzw. "untypisch" oder "seltsam" unterscheiden zu können. Vor...

Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung dem Dialog und der Zusammenarbeit von Wirtschaftsunternehmen und Sozialinstitutionen im 21. Jahrhundert zukommt. Die Arbeit basiert auf dem Projekt Brückenschlag, einem Versuch, das gesellschaftliche Engagement von Unternehmen zu fördern, indem...

It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...

A number of recent studies nd evidence for the existence of a persistent performance gap between multinational enterprises (MNE) and their domestic competitors. Therefore, the question arises whether successful rms become MNEs or whether going abroad improves home market performance. This paper...