Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...

Existing literature suggests that the contents of corporate governance codes are similar due to external forces, such as increased integration of countries in the global economy, the increased role of foreign institutional investors and recommendations on corporate governance practices of...

The years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe brought with them the unprecedented - in these societies - phenomenon of restructuring with dismissals and growing unemployment. Moreover with the emergence and development of the private sector, new enterprises started to leave former...

This article explores the process of labour market integration in the border region of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic. The underlying understanding of integration is combining institutional factors and the behaviour of market players. The sources of this conceptual framework stem from...

The European Social Model (ESM) is increasingly becoming a model of integration policy. The idea is based on a combination of economic efficiency, in the sense of high productivity, competition and economic growth, and a high level of employment on the one hand together with social cohesion on...

Western Europe has welcomed its new members by shutting the door in the face of the workers coming from the East and making their road to EMU more difficult. Two years down the road of enlargement, some countries are now liberalizing worker flows. Indeed, as shown in this paper, these...

Ausländischen Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen und deren Auswirkungen auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird in der Öffentlichkeit und Politik erhebliche Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Angesichts vorschneller Urteile im öffentlichen Diskurs versucht dieser Artikel auf Grundlage der...

Mit dem Beitritt der zehn mittel- und osteuropäischen Länder am 1. Mai 2004 ist es den Staaten der bisherigen Europäischen Union möglich, die Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit für Bürger aus den neuen Mitgliedsländern einzuschränken. Über einen Zeitraum von insgesamt sieben Jahren können...