In times of increasing employment uncertainty, the question of employability gains more and more importance. Among the many measures to enhance employee employability the provision of outplacement benefits play a prominent role. This paper takes a first step in systematically exploring the economic rationale of outplacement benefits by considering a number of theoretical approaches that may help to explain the provision of outplacement benefits: An accounting logic, a productivity oriented logic, and a signalling logic are elaborated. As systematic data on the provision of outplacement benefits are lacking, the paper confronts the implications from theory with the anecdotal evidence at hand concluding that there seems to be more than one single rationale for the provision of outplacemen...
.... * The research draws on systematic comparative case studies of two large MNEs in the ...
This paper reviews the theoretical rationale that has been advanced so far for a positive relationship between multinationality (ie international diversification) and performance. The researchers show that transaction cost/internalization theory implies no direct and general relationship between international diversification and performance. For example, it is quite possible that the assumptions made by TCI theories that an MNE's level of international diversification cannot remain suboptimal for long are too strong, and that systematic biases may cause more permanent deviations from the optimum level of international diversification. Hence managers with strong ethnocentric views may systematically under-invest abroad while excessive international diversification, on the other hand, may...
...The best-known systematic division of German law is that into public and pri...
...C. Y., & Back, H. Y. (1998). Systematic risk of the multinational corporation. Journal of ...
The objective of this article is to take a closer look at discourse analysis as a qualitative method of data collection, analysis and theory building in Human Resource Management. Working exclusively with audio or video recordings of authentic conversations and following a systematic methodological process, discourse analysis enables researchers to develop theoretical conclusions and models on HR topics. First, basic assumptions and tools of discourse analysis are presented. Special emphasis is put on the applied discourse analytical approach and potential benefits for research on Human Resource Management. Second, drawing on a research project carried out at the University of Bayreuth, an example is presented of how discourse analysis was used to investigate experience management. The ...
...2002) which systematically reduces the perceived distance of the markets in q...
As part of the GLOBE project, this paper explores the societal and the organizational culture of the Romanian finance industry as reflected by middle managers' opinion. The two culture levels are compared across nine cultural dimensions. The differences between the cultural manifestations (practices and values) are analyzed through comparing the middle managers' answers to "what is" and "what should be" type questions at organizational and societal levels. The findings show some significant differences for the majority of the cultural dimensions examined both between culture levels (organizational versus societal) and culture manifestations (practices versus values).
... the ability to prevent crisis, lack a systematic planning activities, and rely on improvisation in ...
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 Brazilian world-class petrochemical company, recognized by their excellence in working with self-managed teams. Two semi-autonomous teams were studied, distinct in its pattern and performance. The main results point out that the understanding of collective competences is more related to the dynamics and the interaction process itself rather than to the content of this approach and its constitutive elements separately.
... other by their history, structure and systematic operation. The basic question refers to "what anim...
A theory of the firm is sketched that contains the presuppositions for a systematic integration of both economic and ethical problems within its framework. Against the background of the stakeholder approach, the business-economic concept of customer integration is interpreted as a special case within a more general concept of stakeholder integration. The stakeholder approach thus provides the link between theory of the firm and business ethics. Based on this connection, a division of the economic and the ethical performance of a firm, and the responsibilities ascribed to them, can be avoided. This paper provides evidence for the potential of the stakeholder approach to unify and consolidate problems and questions within business ethics.
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