Beside “Europeanisation” of politics and globalisation of the economy, reunification ofGermany is another challenge for the German model of industrial relations. Using the Germanmodel approach, this paper investigates the impact and consequences of territorial extensionof free collective...

Bei dem Text handelt es sich um die überarbeitete deutsche Fassung des Beitrags für die vom Berkeley Roundtable onthe International Economy (BRIE) gemeinsam mit dem Kreisky Forum für Internationalen Dialog veranstaltete Tagung„Will there be a unified European Economy? Industrial Production...

In seinem 1978 erschienenen Aufsatz "Überlegungen zum Inhalt des Fachs »Produktionswirtschaftslehre«" forderte ZÄPFEL den Einbezug der Leistungserstellungnichtmaterieller Güter - worunter er Dienstleistungen versteht - in die Produktionswirtschaftslehresowie die Erstellung von Typologien,...

This paper investigates the relative influences of industrial and country factors in international stock returns. Until very recently, academic research has consistently found that country factors dominate industrial factors. This result is in contradiction with practitioners beliefs. This paper...

This study provides a unied growth theory to correctly predictthe initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortalityand net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the courseof their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...

The aim of this paper is to introduce Virtual Equivalence, a method to merge real circuits and virtual circuits. Also it is a new method to implement the Hyper-Bond (Bruns, 2001) for voltage and current flow. The electric power (current × voltage) interactions, at which the real electric...

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from avariety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay –the differential in hourly wages between women with children andwomen without children. We present results from seven countries:Australia, Canada, the...

This report draws together evidence fromseven major cities in European countriesthat are experiencing huge change andtransition from being industrial giants,through major decline in industrialmanufacturing, to recovery. The citieswe study all had a high proportion ofmanufacturing jobs until the...

During the last two decades West Bengal has led the rest of the country with regard to agricultural performance andimplementation of panchayat institutions. But these developments have begun to level out. At the same time the state hasfallen behind in other sectors – industry, higher education...

This paper shows how cognitive human dispositions that take effect at the level of an individualfirm’s corporate culture have repercussions on an industry’s evolution. In our theory, the latter isattributable to evolving corporate cultures coupled with changes in a firm’s...