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Temporary Agency Work, Interim Management and Consulting are three versions of the flexible assignment of personnel between enterprises, which are - with regard to their basic economic structure - more or less similar, but which are organised under thoroughly different contractual and legal regulations in Germany and in three more or less differentiated segments of the market. The paper aims at comparing these forms of flexible personnel assignment under empirical and institutional aspects from an economic perspective.
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.... While in the USA political consulting by external experts is seen as an important factor...) or the "Kompetenzzentrum fur Public Management" (KPM, founded in 2002) in Berne, which are both q...
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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 internally due to the lesser resources they have compared to larger companies. To promote economically relevant information of SMEs, the public sector provides specific advisory services. These services, however, are rarely utilized compared to direct customer and supplier contacts. From strategic management's point of view, the involvement of intermediaries in the innovation process is accompanied by the risk of losing specific knowledge to the business environment. Based on an empirical comparative...
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... capabilities in a management consulting company. Strategic Management Journal, 26(1), 1-24...
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This paper develops a comprehensive explanatory approach to the outsourcing of Human Resource (HR) functions and the resulting demand or non-demand for personnel services by companies (e.g., interim management, outplacement services, consulting in the field of HR management). Starting from the deficits of approaches that currently dominate the outsourcing debate (cost accounting approach, transaction cost approach, resource-based view of the firm), a modified and expanded framework to explain outsourcing HR management/functions is presented which includes other theoretical approaches as well. On the one hand, potential costs and benefits of outsourcing HR functions are systematically analysed, incorporating so far neglected aspects. On the other hand, triggers as well as situational and...
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...durch Sonderhefte in Human Resource Management (2009), Career Development International (2007), J... Funktionsbereiche (General Management, Consulting, Planung, Ausbildung und Recht) konnten nicht eind...
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...* Quality management. * Consulting and education services. Submissions. Authors are i...
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... to the location of production (Boston Consulting Group 2004). Issues of corporate responsibility, c...
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... on a regular basis by human-resources consulting companies. Liability Risks for the Management Bo...
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... capabilities in a management consulting company. Strategic Management Journal, 26(1), 1-24...