The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The...

This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Temporärbeschäftigung auf den Unternehmenserfolg empirisch unter Verwendung repräsentativer Datensätze für Unternehmen in der Schweiz respektive für Betriebe in Deutschland. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Frage gelegt, ob es...