Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt lassen sich trotz gestiegener Erwerbsneigung und erhoehtem Bildungsniveau von Frauen nach wie vor vertikale Segmentationsmuster nach dem Geschlecht beobachten. Dies ist in anderen Laendern wie beispielsweise Schweden nur in einem geringeren Ausmass der Fall. Der...

This chapter builds on Kabanoff and Brown (2008) who found evidence of underlying knowledge structures in managers' patterns of strategic cognition. Walsh (1995: 281) defined knowledge structures as 'a mental template that individuals impose on an informational environment to give it form and...

Achieving competitive advantage through a broader consideration of stakeholders of the firm is examined. The inclusion of other significant organisational actors such as managers and employees as stakeholders capable of creating competitive strategic advantage for the firm is considered....

Purpose – Global performance management (GPM) systems are a central element of measuring the efficacy of an increasingly complex array of global mobility activities – an element that has developed rapidly in the last ten years or so. This conceptual review of GPM consists of four major...

This article presents the results of an embedded case study of compensation practices in the subsidiaries of a multinational corporation (MNC) in the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. We explore the path dependence of compensation systems in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries prior...

In this conceptual paper, we adopt a social-exchange theory perspective to explain the impact of talent management (TM) on the psychological contract and its outcomes. This relationship is supposedly moderated by generational effects and associated differences in work-related values and...