Recently added articles from Management Revue:
Industrial Democracy: Introduction
Oct 01, 2008; ... The term "industrial democracy" has a long tradition in idea-history of both labor movement and social sciences. The rise of the concept and contemporary opportunities designing institutions of industrial democracy in the European context have been topics of the 2nd annual Management Revue ...
Industrial Democracy: Historical Development and Current Challenges**
Oct 01, 2008; ... The following article gathers notes and comments on industrial democracy, its terminology, history and current developments. Industrial democracy is an enigmatic term whose spectrum of meanings is explored in the first section. The Anglo-Saxon terminology, going back to S. and B. Webb will be ...
Democracy at Work - Revisited**
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article deals with a model of worker participation which was introduced in a German car dealership and repair shop in the 1960s and which goes far beyond the legal framework of German codetermination ("Mitbestimmung"). The model comprises full codetermination in economic affairs, ...
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Oct 01, 2008; ... Appiah, Kwame Anthony: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers New York: Norton, 2007, Paperback, 224 S., $15.95 The realm of economic ethics in general has recently attracted significant attention. But when it comes to the realm of international management, this is not true in ...
Employee Share Ownership as Moderator of the Relationship between Firm-Specific Human Capital Investments and Organizational Commitment**
Oct 01, 2008; ... Tight labour markets and changing employment relationships make employees with high levels of firm-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities less dependent on and committed to their employer. Companies need to work harder in order to attract and retain employees and protect their mutual human ...
Negotiated Forms of Worker Involvement in the European Company (SE) -First Empirical Evidence and Conclusions**
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article analyses the negotiations on worker involvement in the first almost four years of the European Company SE and their outcomes. First, some basic institutional aspects of the SE itself and its current empirical situation are described and explained. Then, the focus is on questions of ...
Understanding the Effects of Works Councils on Organizational Performance. A Theoretical Model and Results from Initial Case Studies from the Netherlands**
Oct 01, 2008; ... In this article, we present a conceptual model to understand the effects of works councils on organizational performance. The model is based on economic and HRM literature on employee participation and organizational performance, as well as on German and Dutch research into the economic and ...
Much Ado about Nothing? Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany - a Preliminary Assessment**
Jul 01, 2008; ... The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major ...
Students as Non-Standard Employees. Exploring Work Related Issues in Students' Perceptions on their Term-time Job**
Jul 01, 2008; ... The article presents the results of an explorative study that aimed at exploring work related issues in students' perceptions of their job as atypical employees. An individual picture of the experienced work reality of students is drawn according to work task, flexible working hours, ...
Strategic Outsourcing in the German Engine Building Industry. An Empirical Study Based on the Resource Dependence Approach**
Jul 01, 2008; ... Outsourcing is an organizational measure that changes the resource dependencies of a company. In this paper, a framework is developed from the perspective of the resource dependence approach to explain strategic outsourcing in the German engine building industry. On the basis of the NIFA panel, ...
Human Needs as Predictors for Organizational Commitment and Job Involvement: An Exploratory Empirical Study**
Jul 01, 2008; ... While the literature on the determinants of organizational commitment (OC) and job involvement (JI) is vast, little has been studied about the impact of human needs. In search for the institutional stars, this study examines whether human needs can serve a predictor for both high OC and high JI ....
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Jul 01, 2008; ... Chwe, Michael Suk-Young: Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge Princeton: Princeton University Press 2003, 144 S., $ 29.95 What do rationality and ritual have in common? Nothing, many social scientists would probably spontaneously answer, and by no means only ...
German Universities as State-sponsored Co-operatives**
Apr 01, 2007; ... Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a cooperation are its professors. The same is true ...
Future University in Present Times: Autonomy, Governance and The Entrepreneurial University**
Apr 01, 2007; ... The paper discusses the main challenges confronted by Mexican government agencies and universities to deal with the model implemented since the late 1980s in the context of neoliberalism and globalization. Such challenges are associated with the tendencies observed at three levels. First, the ...
Reform of Higher Education and the Return of 'Heroic' Leadership: The Case of Denmark**
Apr 01, 2007; ... Denmark is experiencing a comprehensive package of educational reform aimed at enabling that country to recalibrate itself to the demands of the so-called 'global knowledge economy'. In relation to the higher education sector, a new system of university governance is being implemented where ...
The Impacts of University Management on Academic Work: Reform Experiences in Austria and Germany**
Apr 01, 2007; ... This contribution analyses the impacts of managerial governance on academic work, and more especially on research, comparing German and Austrian universities. First, recent reforms of university governance in the two countries are summarized. Second, the degree of implementation of managerial ...
The Singularity of the German Doctorate as a Signal for Managerial Talent: Causes, Consequences and Future Developments**
Apr 01, 2007; ... The paper focuses on signaling options for managerial talent under different higher education regimes. The educational paths in a sample of top managers of the 100 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S., France and Germany are consistent with our theoretical conjectures. For the singular ...
Student Relationship Management in Germany - Foundations and Opportunities**
Apr 01, 2007; ... The objective of the article is to introduce to the topic of Student Relationship Management (SRM) in Germany. The concept has been derived from the idea of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM), which has already been successfully implemented in many enterprises. Its objective is to canvass ...
Organizational Fields and Competitive Groups in Higher Education: Some Lessons from the Bachelor/Master Reform in Germany**
Apr 01, 2007; ... The implementation of the Bachelor and Master reform in German universities happens at a surprisingly rapid pace. Apparently, a higher education system which by most observers is characterized as being reluctant to change can quickly embrace the Bologna process, which aims at a common European ...
Managing Higher Education: Introduction1
Apr 01, 2007; ... For various reasons, there is currently an extensive debate on the actual situation and the future perspective of higher education systems. Some authors have stressed the difficulties of preserving the university project in the presence of other agencies apparently more effective and profitable ...