In today's global shipping industry management functions have often been outsourced to separate companies and to overseas locations. With the appearance of socalled 'flags of convenience' the world shipping industry has increasingly registered commercial vessels overseas. Following this trend,...

The Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program is typical of the ways many governments are seeking to promote cross-sector R&D collaboration. Scientists are key resources in these organizational arrangements. However, there is only fragmentary information available about why and when...

In this study, we examine a variety of management characteristics of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the health services (HS) industry. Data collected from Australian senior executives are used to test the relationships between managerial constructs such as employee commitment,...

Despite the increasing significance of Chinese family businesses (CFBs) as an important sector in China?s fast-growing economy, family businesses in China have received little research attention in the literature. The aims of this study are two-fold. First, the study examines the current human...

The methodology and basic elements of the business process of one-stage economic assessment of organizational projects for personnel management at Russian enterprises are presented. The aim of the study is to analyze and develop clear criteria for assessing the effectiveness of projects and...

Crisis phenomena in many countries of the world do not allow enterprises to develop. Enterprises have to face permanent threats and risks that significantly reduce the current level of their economic security, the problem of creating a protection system, that is, an integrated system of economic...

The paper reviews emerging aspects of leadership in business organizations under the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic as identified two levels of its realization – on an organizational one and individual one, cultural approach to leadership, pursuing leadership through human resources and...

We study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. By employing unsupervised machine learning, we leverage high-dimensional data on human resource policies to describe clusters of management...

Die Entwicklung der Personalarbeit in Deutschland ist durch fortschreitende Professionalisierung gekennzeichnet. Dies wurde durch die zunehmende Verrechtlichung der Personalarbeit ausgelöst und findet inzwischen seinen Ausdruck in der Verankerung der Personalfunktion in der obersten...