The varieties of capitalism approach (VoC) and the related research assume that German firms adopt an internal flexibility profile that corresponds with the national institutional framework. Recent empirical studies, however, have found substantial diversity in realized firm-level strategies....

Workplace situation as well as work values have apparently changed in the last decades. However, up to now we do not know how these changes are related. This article considers both, workplace situation and work values, together and analyses theoretically and empirically how different...

In recent years German and international courts have heard several high-profile cases involving compensation claims for German violations of international humanitarian law in the past. Compensation has been denied for the massacre committed in Distomo (Greece) during the German occupation of...

State immunity for state-run enterprises remains important in the age of globalization. This is indicated by the adoption of the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property on 2 December 2004. In this short article the reader is introduced to the basics of...

The territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which has been going on since the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, is now starting to show effects also far away from the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine: in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, off the shores of Russia's far north....

There is no single treaty regulating the Arctic Ocean, nor a regional seas programme. Written in 2015, this article was intended to show how there existed, during the Obama administration, the possibility to create a legally binding treaty protecting the Arctic marine environment. Today (2019),...