This paper analyzes the relationship between employee participation in work teams, profit sharing and consultation between employees and management, and wages. It uses matched employeeestablishment data from the British economy. It takes explicit account of selectivity that arises from...

This paper presents a new approach to the theory of the firm by identifying factor complementarities as central to the determination of the firm’s boundaries. The factor complementarities may take a variety of forms: technological and informational complementarities, as well as economies of...

This article specifies the concept of 'Organizational Culture of Participation' (OCP) as that part of an organizational culture which is linked to employee participation. Three OCP-types are distinguished by the way participation is promoted and supported in an organizational culture: (1) leader...

Whereas employee participation is generally conceived to facilitate implementation of organizational change, only limited research has investigated whether it may reduce the negative effects of downsizing. The present study compares two Swedish hospitals that implemented downsizing in different...

Das (Personal-) Management und die Organisation von internationalen Entwicklungs-NGOs sind bisher wenig erforscht. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, Aufschluss darueber zu gewinnen, wie diese Organisationen ihre internationalen Aktivitaeten koordinieren und welche Einflussfaktoren hier eine Rolle...

Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes within the organization. This is particularly true when the majority ownership of a company moves into the hand of its employees. Drawing on three case studies of East German...

Positive effects of employee participation on organizational performance are closely linked to the implementation of a specific corporate culture always referred to as ‘ownership culture’. This issue can be stimulated through employee share purchase plans (ESPP). This article will...

This study examines effects of structurally anchored organisational democracy on perceived sociomoral atmosphere and on employees’ prosocial, democratic behavioural orientations. Data result from the ODEM research project. Beside a description of the concept of sociomoral atmosphere, within...

This paper focuses on the relationship between work role stressors and job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention among IT personnel. To collect data, we received the cooperation of the IT SME/Venture Business Association in Korea. IT firms provided the names and...

Am Beispiel der deutschen chemischen Industrie, einer mittelstaendisch, aber international orientierten Branche untersuchen wir, in welchem Umfang bei der Abwicklung internationaler Aktivitaeten auf Auslandsentsendungen zurueckgegriffen wird. Wir zei-gen, dass dies deutlich seltener geschieht,...