Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) provides aircraft-related technical services to a worldwide customer base comprising airlines, aircraft leasing companies, maintenance organisations, and operators of business and VIP aircrafts. In the past 10 years, one major innovation in the field of work...

Rabobank Nederland (RN) is part of Rabobank Group, which provides financial services and insurance. It is the largest financial services provider in the Netherlands. The innovation described in this case study is an integral new concept of work called ‘Rabo Unplugged’. The new work style...

FAVI is an SME based in Hallencourt in the Picardy region of France. It is a pressure die-casting company specialising in copper alloys that currently employs 406 people. The company designs, optimises, smelts, machines and assembles copper alloy pieces. In the automotive subcontracting sector,...

The Italian company Elica has manufactured cooker hoods since the 1970s. Elica has instigated many work organisation innovations over the past five years. The Harvard Business Review collectively labels Elica’s developments as ‘proposition innovation’. The innovation is a series of...

Kellogg Spain, a subsidiary of the multinational with the same name, started activity over 30 years ago. [...] This case study considers some HR practices that are global at Kellogg and common across many other countries, but it pays special attention to specific practices that the company has...

Abbott, a global, broad-based healthcare company, employs almost 4,000 people in Ireland. The scope of this case study is the commercial operation located in Dublin Citywest Business Campus, which employs 158 people. The staff level in this organisation has remained stable during the past five...

Eine räumlich ungleiche Verteilung von Kosten und Nutzen einer Gewerbeansiedelung ist immer wieder zu beobachten. Am Beispiel der Ansiedelung eines Ikea-Möbelhauses im Münchener Süden wird ein solcher Fall genauer analysiert. Während bei standardmäßig durchgeführten Studien dabei Fragen...

Die Untersuchung leistet einen Beitrag zur metaphorologischen Analyse des Neuen Autoritarismus. Ausgangspunkt ist die Annahme, dass Autokratisierungsprozesse unter der Schwelle rationaler Bewegungsmomente durch die Erneuerung politischer Verkörperungsmythen gekennzeichnet sind. Am Beispiel der...