-Chapter 1: Introduction -- -Part 1: Background of Barnard’s management thought -- Chapter 2: Barnard’s personality and career -- Chapter 3: Barnard’s experience -- Chapter 4: Barnard’s intellectual relationships -- Chapter 5: Barnard’s philosophy -- Chapter 6: Barnard’s method --...

Table of contents -- Introduction by the editors -- Section I: Network as metaphors -- 1. “A Structured Literature Review on Networks and Organizations” by Anna Moretti and Marco Tolotti -- 2. A game-theoretic approach for managing origin-to-destination network flow with path preferences and...

This paper deals with endogenous determination of effort as a source of productivity growth.

Die Abteilung Produktionssysteme des Institut Arbeits und Technik war im November 1995Gastgeber der 15. Tagung Mensch Maschine Kommunikation, kurz MMK. DieserBericht zur Tagung umfaßt neben den Ergebnissen der vier Arbeitsgruppen zu den Themen«Irritation als Methode», «Risikomanagement im...

In spite of Microsoft´s quasi monopoly position in the market for operating systems Linux has succeeded to become a serious competitor of Microsoft Windows. From an economic standpoint this fact raises some puzzles.(...)

This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between organizational units and functions.(...)

Im Anschluß an die Motivation der Problemstellung werden in Kapitel 2 die wesentlichen Grundlagen expliziert. Zunächst wird der der Arbeit zugrunde liegende theoretische Bezugsrahmen vorgestellt.(...)

Using sociological institutionalism the three articles constituting this dissertation scrutinize the relationship between organizations and their (social) environment at different levels of analysis and in the context of specific research questions. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in...