This paper reviews basic and emerging research trends on the moonshot phenomenon in the business world. It traces the emergence and development of the nuances for this construct, its relationships with the proclaimed corporate culture and some new attributes of management by objectives....

This paper presents the problem of workers lay off and loss along with their exit from the organization its key competencies - skills and knowledge. Importance of management of key competencies was described. The paper also presents outplacement as a way to maintain core competencies even during...

The management of urban and rural areas has always consisted of a mixture of state, market and civil society actors. In times of increased liberalization, deregulation and privatization of many former state-dominated tasks, limited institutional capabilities of smaller communities, a lack of...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Konzeption von BI als integrierten Gesamtansatz, veranschaulicht das Potenzial für eine innovative Nutzung von Informationen zur Erreichung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen und gibt einen Überblick über ausgewählte zukünftige Entwicklungen und Trends.

Der Beitrag versucht, einen der modernen, kulturell heterogenen Gesellschaft angemessenen Begriff von sozialer Integration von Immigrant(inn)en zu definieren. Nach der Diskussion von drei klassischen Integrationsansätzen (Park; Gordon; Esser), die von einer Assimilation in einer als kulturell...

The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...