Die Institution Betriebsrat zeichnet sich angesichts des starken ökonomischen und technisch-organisatorischen Wandels in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten durch eine relativ hohe Kontinuität aus. Die Betriebsratsforschung hat in dieser Zeit einen Aufschwung erfahren. Neue Fragestellungen wurden...

Human Resource Management (HRM) ist trotz umfangreicher Diskussion in der amerikanischen, britischen und deutschsprachigen Literatur ein schillernder Begriff geblieben, mit dem unterschiedliche Phänomene und Konzepte verbunden werden. Auch Versuche, den ökonomischen Erfolg des HRM messbar zu...

Die deutschen Gewerkschaften erproben verschiedene Strategien gewerkschaftlicher Erneuerung. Vor allem der von den US-Gewerkschaften zum Teil erfolgreich praktizierte Organizing-Ansatz wurde hier zu Lande diskutiert und auch in einigen Fällen bereits adaptiert. Gleichzeitig gibt es aber auch...

Using a real-effort experiment, we study whether group identity affects unethical behavior in a contest game. We vary whether minimal group identity is induced or not, whether individuals have to report their own outcome or the outcome of their competitor, and whether pairs of competitors share...

We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...

The economic competitiveness of a country is analyzed from several perspectives, including through the labor of the land available, gifted people’s skills and abilities, the level of employment, the standard of living and the level of population welfare. Currently, according to international...

We study strategic investment decisions in multi-stage contests with heterogeneous players. Our theoretical model of a round-robin rank-order tournament predicts that players conserve resources in a current contest to spend more in the subsequent contest if the degree of heterogeneity in the...

The effect of objective feedback on performance is often studied, while subjective feedback is largely neglected in the economics literature. We estimate the impact of positive subjective feedback - encouragement and praise - on effort and performance, and compare the effect by gender. We use a...

FeedbackWe theoretically and experimentally analyze public and private feedback in teams that are characterized by different performance technologies. We consider a setting where the principal can provide truthful information on agents' performances or strategically withhold feedback. We find...

The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has been a topic of interest since the first appearance of the idea of division of labour and specialisation in Adam Smith's works. The major phases of organisational change are in...