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This exploratory study mapped work values in European countries and examined socio-economic and cultural explanations of between-country differences in the relative importance of various work values. The data from the latest wave of the European Values Study (EVS) covered 45 European countries....
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The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic, some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political, organizational and...
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Organizations seek new ways to stimulate collective competences. One possible way this can be done is though self-managing teams. This paper aims to understand the collective competences based on their constitutive elements: interaction, sensemaking and identity. For this study we investigated a...
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Information is a critical resource in innovation processes. External information can be helpful in innovation processes to complete them successfully. SMEs in particular are therefore advised to draw on consulting in innovation processes, as they cannot ensure the necessary information flow...
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In this paper we argue that flexpatriates’ needs and goals are not homogeneous and cannot be met simply by providing standard measures to facilitate working in different cultural locations. We review the nature of flexpatriate lifestyle to examine how employees of multinational enterprises...
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This paper investigates the employment growth of small and medium-sized firms that survived the transformation process of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We find that firms founded in the later period of the GDR’s existence have especially low growth prospects, even 10 years after German...
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Der Beitrag untersucht die Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch Vaeter in Deutschland. Zwar stieg der Anteil der Vaeter in Elternzeit seit der Elterngeldreform im Jahr 2007 kontinuierlich an, doch stellen Vaeter immer noch die Minderheit der Elternzeit-Beansprucher. Im...
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Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...
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Die betriebliche Mitbestimmung hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten massiv an Bedeutung verloren und erreicht heute lediglich eine Minderheit der in Deutschland beschaeftigten Personen. Bisherige Erklaerungsansaetze verweisen auf wirtschaftliche, betriebliche und beschaeftigungsstrukturelle...
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