This special issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Research sets out to clarify the functioning of employee participation and involvement, paying attention to the explanatory power that the concept of corporate culture has for these phenomena. The following papers concentrate on...

Innovation ist ein zentrales Thema in der Diskussion um die Wettbewerbsfaehigkeit von Unternehmen. Entscheidend fuer deren Innovationsfaehigkeit ist die Struktur der Belegschaft sowie deren Qualifikationsniveau und Qualifizierungsbereitschaft. Im Zuge der demografischen Entwicklung hat sich die...

The authors examined the impact of perceived usability of websites of commercial service vendors on consumer’s affective, intentional, and behavioral variables. Reflective and formative usability measures were used within a nomological network of predictors (trust, reputation, and...

Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...

In this study, we investigated if employees’ innovative behavior can be explained in terms of social exchange between employees and organizations. We developed a research model based on the Organizational Support Theory (Eisenberger et al. 1986). The model explains how innovative behavior...

This article specifies the concept of 'Organizational Culture of Participation' (OCP) as that part of an organizational culture which is linked to employee participation. Three OCP-types are distinguished by the way participation is promoted and supported in an organizational culture: (1) leader...

The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic, some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political, organizational and...