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Public sector contracting: An Australian study of changing work conditions

Ryan, Neal; Furneaux, Craig; Pink, Anthony; Brown, Kerry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 4, pp. 438-457

Throughout the 1990s, government reports such as the Competitive Tendering and Contracting Report (Industry Commission1996) and the Report of the Independent Commission to Review Public Sector Finances (McCarrey 1993), suggested that the contracting-out of government services would improve the...

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A multi-dimensional analysis of managers' power: Functional, socio-political, interpretive-discursive, and socio-cultural approaches

Diefenbach, Thomas; By, Rune Todnem; Klarner, Patricia - In: Management Revue 20 (2009) 4, pp. 413-431

Managers' power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation … such as managers' power in multi-dimensional ways. …

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The right to part-time: Practical implications from the managerial point of view

Kattenbach, Ralph - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 3, pp. 350-366

implementation. Therefore the HR managers' concepts and attitudes towards part-time as well as the psychological contract are the …

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Dialectical conditions: Leadership structures as productive action generators

Martin, Albert - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 4, pp. 395-419

This article introduces a model of productive leadership structures. It is based on the idea that structures should stimulate dialectical processes which activate functional and simultaneously restrict dysfunctional behavioural tendencies of the management team. The structural dialectics are...

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The role of dismissal protection in personnel management: From the point of view of personnel managers

Schramm, Florian; Schlese, Michael - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 3, pp. 322-349

standardised survey of 750 personnel managers which was carried out in 2007. As a whole the effects of dismissal protection on … personnel management are perceived by personnel managers to be insignificant. In general, employment law is considered to be a … Employment law and that this is dependent on the personnel managers' competence in this area as well as other factors. These …

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The gendered stereotype of the 'good manager': Sex role expectations towards male and female managers

Gmür, Markus - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 2, pp. 104-121

and 2005 are presentedin the short note below. The main findings of the study are: 1. Female managers are expected to … conform more closely to male stereotypes than are male managers. 2. Higher expectations are set from women and respondents …

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Capital mobility and growth

Diehl, Markus; Gundlach, Erich - In: Economics letters 62 (1999) 1, pp. 131-133

We suggest a new way to quantify the growth effects of capital mobility. We find that for reasonable parameter values, capital mobility has a large impact on income growth.

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A quarter-century review of human resource management in the US: The growth in importance of the international perspective

Schuler, Randall S.; Jackson, Susan E. - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 1, pp. 11-35

The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...

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Human resources and business performance: Findings, unanswered questions, and an alternative approach

Gerhart, Barry - In: Management Revue 16 (2005) 2, pp. 174-185

In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly moved to the plant/unit and firm level of analysis...

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Procurement and governance management: Development of a conceptual procurement model based on different types of control

Eriksson, Per Erik - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 1, pp. 30-49

Due to the importance of external suppliers for most companies, procurement and governance management is of utmost relevance for achieving competitive advantage. Research in the field of industrial buying behaviour (IBB) has largely been influenced by transaction cost economics (TCE). However,...

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