The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

Ludewig and Sadowski (2009) empirically examine the economic value of organizationalcapital. They use a comprehensive panel data set from the Institute for EmploymentResearch (IAB) that provides standard information about inputs and outputs of theproduction process of German corporate...

Das Leitbild der nachhaltigen Entwicklung wird erst mit Lebengefüllt, wenn alle Menschen sich in ihren jeweiligen Wirkungsortenzukunftsfähig verhalten. Vor allem lokale Projekte bietendie Möglichkeit, langfristig verantwortliches Handeln konkretzu veranschaulichen. In den letzten Jahren sind...

In der Wirtschaft wird noch häufig ein Mythos von Rationalität aufrecht erhalten, demgemäß sich Prozesse des Handelns und Entscheidens in Unternehmen ausschließlich an Kriterien der Zweckrationalität orientieren - und dies obwohl in der Organisationsforschung schon seit Jahrzehnten...

Welfare to work policy is central to British reforms of itswelfare state and social security system. We are not alonein our desire to assist unemployed and other claimants tofind and retain work. It is therefore important to be able tolook to other countries and consider lessons that could...

Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...

We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change,labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new paneldata set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associatedwith increased administrative and organizational...

This paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine lawfirms' field boundaries. We find that the share of lawyers working in field-specializedfirms increases as market size increases and lawyers field-specialize, indicating thattransaction costs among lawyers, and not...