This paper contributes to recent research on work organization as a key success factor. On the theoretical side, two alternative analytical explanations are combined to an inte-grated approach, which predicts the existence of a clear cut ranking of organizational systems. In addition, this...

Since around 2000 the education premium and the level of employment in high-skill occupations has stagnated, if not actually begun to shrink. This brings into question the generally held view that in advanced countries, while potentially harmful for those who work with their hands, globalization...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik ist inzwischen fünf Jahre alt. Der 5. Jahresbericht in-formiert über das fünfte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2014/2015 und das Sommersemester 2015. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut, seine Professoren und aktuellen Mitarbeiter...

In this chapter, we first review the two main approaches to categories (understood from a cognitive perspective) found in the current literature. The ecological and the goal-based approaches to categories vary in terms of premises (prototypes vs. ideals), processes (central tendency and family...

Der 4. Jahresbericht des vor vier Jahren gegründeten Instituts für Organisationsökonomik informiert über das Wintersemester 2013/2014 und das Sommersemester 2014. Wie üblich werden das Institut, seine Professoren und Mitarbeiter vorgestellt. Danach wird über die Forschung, Lehre und...