In many European countries efforts are undertaken to improve doctoral education. In the context of new public governance in the Higher Education sector, less state, more competition, less academic self-governance, more internal hierarchy and more influence by external stakeholders under the...

New public governance emphasizes less state, more market and more hierarchy as the cornerstones for effective steering of higher education institutions. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen German and European economics departments, we investigate the...

Die Effizienz der Mitbestimmung auf Betriebs- und Unternehmensebene wird in diesem Beitragaus einer mikroökonomischer Perspektive betrachtet. Unser Augenmerk liegt hierbei auf der Frage,ob aus dem nicht oder zumindest nur seltenen freiwilligen Zustandekommen von Mitbestimmungsregelungenauf...

Firms develop their organizational practices to realize returns from given and marketable resources. Implementing effective practices requires substantial up-front investment. We approximate the economic relevance of establishment-specific organizational capital by using a two-step procedure....