Das Portfoliomanagement gehoert zu den zentralen Aufgaben des Strategischen Managements von Unternehmen. Zur Unterstuetzung von Portfolioentscheidungen wurden zahlreiche Konzepte entwickelt, die sich allgemein in strategisch-marktorientierte und wertorientierte Ansaetze unterscheiden lassen....

How do managers in Not-For-Profit organizations conceptualize their career success? While the for-profit sector provides more objective measures such as salary level or position in the hierarchy, Not For Profit Organizations often lack hard and fast metrics. This work seeks to develop a...

Regional factors are important for the economy and employment in highly competitive, international markets. As a precondition for the functioning of regional labour markets, adequate information has to be generated and transformed into new knowledge – for all actors involved. Regional Labour...

Enterprise restructuring can no longer be understood as a temporal crisis. Current developments show that for many organizations and even regions or sectors restructuring became a recurrent and continuous process. But often restructuring processes fail to produce the intended effects of secured...

Warum gelingt es in der betrieblichen Praxis vielfach nicht, die Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitern intensiver zu nutzen? Sind Mitarbeiter nicht bereit, ihre Kompetenzen staendig weiterzuentwickeln, oder sind die Unternehmen nicht in der Lage, die Prozesse des Organisationslernens zu gestalten? Zur...

2001 wurde mit dem Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz der Teilzeitanspruch eingefuehrt. Die Bundesregierung erhoffte sich enorme beschaeftigungswirksame Effekte, da der Rechtsanspruch die Arbeitszeitwuensche vieler Beschaeftigter traf. Auf Arbeitgeberseite stiess das Gesetz hingegen auf harte...

The demands for equal opportunities, the constructive treatment of personnel diversity and the focussed implementation of heterogeneous potential are among the greatest challenges for modern organizations. No one organization will be able to avoid these new challenges. Also universities will...

A key component of economic globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a special role in stimulating the growth of countries’ competitiveness. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth, with a special focus...

Leuphana University of Lueneburg and the University of Minnesota hosted the international symposium on “Personality at Work” in Lueneburg. This symposium was co-organized by Deniz S. Ones (University of Minnesota, USA) and Juergen Deller (Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany). The...

This special issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Research sets out to clarify the functioning of employee participation and involvement, paying attention to the explanatory power that the concept of corporate culture has for these phenomena. The following papers concentrate on...