This research attempts to identify trends as for findings of empirical studies on explanatory factors of joint venture (JV) success. The first part of the paper provides a list of performance criteria used in the literature and suggests a classification of the latter. The second part analyses...

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’évaluer le degré de convergence des résultats des travaux empiriques sur les facteurs explicatifs du succès des joint ventures (JV). Une première partie recense les critères de performance retenus dans la littérature et en propose une...

Zeitarbeit hat sich für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu einem wichtigen Flexibilisierungsinstrument entwickelt. Dem zunehmenden Mangel an neuen, qualifizierten Zeitarbeitnehmern kann auch in der Zeitarbeit durch die Qualifizierung bestehender Mitarbeiter begegnet werden. Auch wenn Weiterbildung oft...

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore superior evaluations because it contains objective...

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health care professionals to the extreme. This study investigated the re-enchanting effect of shared leadership and passion at work in the context of public health care. This study advances on the Self-Determination Theory to suggest that shared leadership has a...

The paper's main objective is to analyse the impact of work investment on performance. The research involved administering an online questionnaire, which collected information on work effort, perceived performance, burnout and job satisfaction. The study was conducted on a group of 313...

Motivation is a complex and dynamic factor that contributes to business success. Many factors influence the motivation of employees. The paper examines the influence of leadership on the motivation of employees in the tourism sector. The empirical research was conducted in September 2023. using...

This article presents a quantitative approach to restructuring public and public utility enterprises, particularly during downsizing requests. The large number of employees in the public sector can be one of the causes for economic instability at country level. That is particularly visible in...

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...