Ein unternehmensübergreifendes Verständnis von Organisation ist von zentraler Bedeutung. Denn es hat sich gezeigt, dass die Organisation des Unternehmensumfeldes, z. B. Wettbewerbspolitik, und die Organisation an den Grenzen der Unternehmung - z.B. Outsourcing, Kooperationen - erheblichen Einfluss auf den Erfolg und die Gestaltung von Unternehmensstrukturen haben. Das Lehrbuch wurde in der 5. Auflage aktualisiert und ergänzt um die Bereiche `Dienstleistungs-/Service-Organisation` und `Organisation von Wertschöpfung`.
Powerfully driven by the work practices of consulting firms, the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint is increasingly used on all levels of business and educational communication. Nevertheless, slideware ranks among the least explored media in communication studies. This study investigates the role of PowerPoint in organizational communication, particularly in terms of a functional dilemma between its application for documentation as opposed to presentation purposes. The theoretical part of the analysis combines insights from both organizational communication studies (J. R. Taylor et al.) and social systems theory (N. Luhmann et al.). The empirical analysis shows that PowerPoint documents created for cross-project learning purposes contribute to an invisibilization rather than a visibilization of decision processes and their contingency. In the light of these results, existing efforts to promote knowledge management based on the learning-from-mistakes principle need to be reconsidered with respect to their realization in communicative practice.
First, we will explain the concept of globalization. We will describe its conceptual variants and point to some of the phenomena that are associated with this process. Next we will describe the traditional paradigm of CSR where the responsibilities of businesses are discussed vis-a-vis a more or less properly working nation state system and a homogenous moral (cultural) community. We will argue that both these assumptions become problematic in the current 'post-national constellation' (Habermas 2001). We describe the new situation with regulatory gaps in global regulation, an erosion of national governance (loss of national sovereignty and the exterritorial application of national law), and a loss in moral and cultural homogeneity in the corporate environment. We discuss the consequences of the post-national constellation with the help of two recent observations of business firms' behavior which call for a fresh view on the concept of CSR. We describe the necessary paradigm shifts toward a new politically enlarged concept of CSR in a globalized world.
The theoretical idea of personnel economics is to apply simple economic principles to
the field of human resources management. Personnel economics as a research field
has grown rapidly since the first text book on “Personnel Economics” was published
in 1998. The development is driven by new theoretical insights based on institutional
and behavioural economics and new empirical methods and data sets. Those new
theoretical insights are very fruitful to analyze reasons and consequences of various
human resource management practices, to understand what actually drives and motivates
employees, and what causes organisations to be successful or to fail. With the
new data sets and econometric methods the theories that have been laid out in personnel
economics either many years ago or very recently can now be tested thoroughly.
And the evidence produced by the new data and methods is strongly supportive,
which is not only reassuring for researchers, but it also suggests that practitioners
can actually rely on the ideas because they are born out in the data. So, personnel economics
is not only a vivid research field, but also of great value for human resource
managers, particularly for those taking strategic HR decisions. The fruitfulness of personnel
economics is demonstrated with four examples: training strategies of companies,
recruiting in tight labour markets, career incentives, team size and effort, and entrepreneurial
signalling towards employees and creditors.
This paper investigates the determinants of inter-firm cooperation in
research and development (R&D). We analyse the impact of structural and firm
specific characteristics, market performance, access to resources and managerial
techniques on different types of inter-firm R&D cooperation. Based on a survey
of 886 enterprises in manufacturing and industry/business-related services
located in Germany, we estimate several models with different types of R&D
partnerships as a dependent variable to find out which types of enterprises are
more or less likely to form or join either type of R&D partnership. The findings
suggest that the availability and the quality of a firm’s own R&D resources are
common factors driving R&D cooperation in general. Differentiating between
cooperation activities in R&D among enterprises on the same production
level on the one hand and vertical cooperation between enterprises and
suppliers/customers or cross-sector alliances between enterprises and public
research institutes on the other hand, we find cooperation type specific
determinants of entry. The size of a firm, its location, access to financial
resources and network experience seem to be most important.
Operations Research Letters is a publication for literature on all aspects of operations research and the management and decision sciences. The features distinguishing it from other journals in the field are
* concise articles, generally limited to 6 journal pages
* rapid review and fast publication
* broad coverage of the literature.
Apart from the page limitation, originality, relevance, quality and clarity are the only criteria for selecting the material to be published. The journal covers continuous and discrete optimization, stochastic models, and situations with multiple decision makers. The subject matter can be theory, methodology, empirical studies, and applications. The mainstream of contributions focuses on new models, theorems, algorithms, and experimental work that the author wants to disseminate rapidly. We will publish theory and methodology with proofs only sketched, provided that the author submits support material that enables us to verify the findings. We will also publish computational and experimental studies that are not necessarily based on new theory or methodology, but are of significant scientific value because they confirm or refute prior results. Similarly, we will publish reports on applications and case studies that demonstrate a novel use of existing techniques or contain significant ideas about data collection and analysis, modelling, or implementation.
Optimization publishes refereed, theoretical and applied papers on the latest developments in fields such as linear, nonlinear, stochastic, parametric, discrete and dynamic programming, control theory and game theory.
A special section is devoted to review papers on theory and methods in interesting areas of mathematical programming and optimization techniques. The journal also publishes conference proceedings, book reviews and announcements.
