This article deals with the question to what extent Resource Dependence Theory(RDT) is able to explain behavior of organizations. Behavior is understood here in awide sense, it includes actions and decision making as well as “non-decision-making”(Bachrach/Baratz 1977) and results of decision...

What are the reasons behind the different human resource management strategies –human resource management strategies understood as patterns of action for “dealingwith” the human resources or the work force of an organization? Why do we on onehand have human resource management strategies,...

A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article – in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies...

This article evaluates to what extent Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) is able to explain organizational processes and structures. The evaluation criteria are the empirical corroboration of the theory, its information content and generality, but also how realistic the assumptions of the RDT are....