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• United against taboo

by Dr. Henning Hartwig The permitted usages of trademarks and logos in branding are in a process of transition, and this extends, above all...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Germany Law Articles in English

• The European Union as a virtual learning forum for national labour market policy?-Comments on a 'Late Vocation' field of European governance.

..., can help to focus public attention on 'taboo' issues of labour market policy, even if there are...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 1 Nr. 1, Januar 2000

• The Management of Human Resources in Malaysia: Locally-Owned Companies and Multinational Companies**

This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locally-owned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational companies (MNC) operating in Malaysia. We found LOCs do not place a high priority on their HR practices and do not benchmark against the HR practices of MNCs. Overall, Malaysian people management generally would be better characterized as still more like 'personnel', than 'HR', management. Any acceptance and development of the HRM concept by Malaysian companies has been slow and cautious. This situation may prove problematic for future competitiveness and upgrading in the context of low wage cost ...

... ones..' and large scale redundancies are taboo (Economist 2005: 54). Another example is the crowd...

• Management Revue
• Band 18 Nr. 4, Januar 2007

• Introduction: looking back: higher education reform in Germany.

... and ranking procedures, has long been a taboo in Germany. Today, internal and external evaluatio...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 2 Nr. 3, Juli 2002

• Designing sustainable transportation policy for acceptance: a comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

... limits on the superhighways have become a "taboo topic" (Umweltbundesamt, 1995). Thanks to a more p...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 2 Nr. 4, Oktober 2002

• Regulating biomedicine in Belgium and France: neighboring countries, diverging policies.

... domain: the issue of infertility is still taboo. Belgium has hardly experienced any formal organiz...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 3 Nr. 4, Dezember 2006

• The Concept of Den'gi (Money) in the St. Petersburg Population at the Beginning of the 1990s

Social change brings about discursive change. Particularly, it causes shifts of meaning within the key concepts of social discourse. The concept of den'gi (money) has undergone fundamental alteration in Russian language and culture since perestroika. This conceptual change will be discussed in the following article. My findings are based on a corpus of interviews recorded in St. Petersburg in 1993. The concepts compared, i.e. the concept of den'gi before and after perestroika, respectively, can only be sketched out roughly here. The interviews conducted in 1993 reveal conflicting discourses on money that are rooted in Russian, Soviet-Russian - the traces of the minor role money played in the Soviet era were still present in social discourse in 1993 - and free enterprise ideologies, resp...

... we explain that money has stopped to be a taboo topic and the Soviet era with its permanent shorta...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 9 Nr. 2, Januar 2004

• The European Union as a Virtual Learning Forum for National Labour Market Policy? - Comments on a 'Late Vocation' Field of European Governance.

..., can help to focus public attention on 'taboo' issues o labour market policy, even if there are ...

• German Policy Studies
• Band 1 Nr. 1, Januar 2000