A firm’s willingness to provide and pay for general training in the form of apprenticeship training crucially depends on whether it is able to recoup the training costs. A successful strategy is to retain the most productive apprentices after graduation. This article explores whether training...

The innovation systems approach, which has taken a prominent position in the academic literature, has also influenced policy-makers around the globe. Most research analyses innovation systems taking a national, regional or sectoral perspective, following a 'technological imperative'. Yet changes...

According to standard human capital theory firm financed training cannot be explained if skills are of general nature. Nevertheless, investments of firms into general training can be observed and there has been a large literature to explain this puzzle, mostly referring to imperfect labor market...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the main challenges imposed by demographic change on the human resource management (HRM) policies of German companies. Although many more aspects of business are affected by demographic change, such as changes in consumption or in savings and...

This paper investigates the determinants of inter-firm cooperation in research and development (R&D). We analyse the impact of structural and firm specific characteristics, market performance, access to resources and managerial techniques on different types of inter-firm R&D cooperation. Based...

This paper analyzes whether effort provision in entrepreneurial teams depends on the size of the team, assuming that size determines the strength of free-riding and peer pressure effects in entrepreneurial teams. We provide a theoretical model and empirical analyses to explain the joint effect...

Zur Motivation von Mitarbeitern werden in der Praxis oft sogenannte Incentive-Reisen eingesetzt. Die Teilnahmeberechtigung an einer Incentive-Reise wird dabei typischerweise im Rahmen eines Turniers vergeben, bei dem eine fest umgrenzte Zahl an Mitarbeitern um eine vorgegebene Anzahl an...

Der demographische Wandel führt zu älteren und altersheterogeneren Belegschaften, was sich auf die betriebliche Produktivität auswirken könnte. Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, ist es zunächst entscheidend zu wissen, wie sich individuelle Produktivität mit dem Alter entwickelt. Dieser Beitrag...

Der Beitrag besch„ftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit arbeitsrechtliche Regulierungen und insbesondere deren Wahrnehmung einen Einfluá auf die Grndungsneigung und damit vermutlich auf die tats„chlichen Unternehmensgrndungen ausbt. Dabei kann einerseits gezeigt werden, daá junge Unternehmen...

Although participation in continuing vocational training is often found to be associated with considerable individual benefits, a puzzlingly large number of people still do not take part in training. We argue that in order to solve the puzzle it is important to take selection effects into...