There is a widespread agreement in modern democracies that a state should not force its citizens to lead lives they do not endorse themselves. It is also generally agreed that state acts should not be justified by appealing to the authority of religious books. Such claims are often reformulated...

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...

We explore the stability of imitation in a 1,200-period experimental Cournot game where subjects do not know the payoff function but see the output quantities and payoffs of each oligopolist after every period. In line with theoretical predictions and previous experimental findings, our...

Vocational education and training (VET) is defined in general practice as technical education and skills training mainly for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities. According to China's 1996 Vocational Education Law, VET is deemed a key component of China's educational system, and...

The paper discusses the role of the personnel function as described in the research literature before the background of the particular characteristics of the Russian HR conditions which have evolved during the transition period. It describes the characteristics of wage and incentive systems in...

This discussion paper is a literature study reviewing the development of human resource management in China, with a particular focus (where possible) on the automobile industry. It presents the Chinese context for HRM discussing the normative debate about the adaptation of Western management...

This paper addresses gaps in research related to study and understanding of Human Resource Management in the context of Indian Automobile sector. The review is based on the available and published literature in peer reviewed journals of reputation and academic standing. A total of 138 papers...

Das vorliegende Paper versucht zur Theoriebildung in Public Health beizutragen. Zu diesem Zweck wird der Capability-Approach (CA), wie er maßgeblich von Amartya Sen und Martha Nussbaum entwickelt wurde, im Lichte unterschiedlicher Public Health-Diskussionskontexte eingebettet. Das Paper beginnt...

Die Innovationsfähigkeit moderner Gesellschaften hängt an der Wissenschaft, lautet die verbreitete Annahme. Entsprechend hoch sind die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Doch folgt Wissenschaft oft eigenen Regeln und Handlungslogiken. Von großem Interesse sind für die...