The main aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of human resource practices on business results. This study will follow the universalist and contingency approaches propounded in the literature (Delery and Doty, 1996; McMahan, Virick and Wright, 1999) in order to confirm their validity in the...

Economic development presumes not only the existence of formal institutions such as property rights and the rule of law under which behave economic agents, but also certain norms or social values that promote exchange, savings and investments. In this context, we discuss cultural dimension of...

The modern technique makes the human effort easier and increases the effectiveness enlarged the area and the variety of demands by adding many aspects or many unknown in the man-demand relationship. In these circumstances, it is justified and normal the modern society concern for more rational...

In Zeiten zunehmender Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit spielt die Sicherstellung der Beschaeftigungsfaehigkeit (employability) der Arbeitnehmer eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Ein zentrales Instrument in diesem Kontext sind Outplacement-Leistungen, bei denen freizusetzende Arbeitnehmer bei der Suche nach...

Neuere oekonometrische Untersuchungen zeichnen ein neutrales bis positives Bild der oekonomischen Konsequenzen betrieblicher Mitbestimmung. Demgegenueber gelangt ein Beitrag von Addison und Teixeira (2006) zu einer ueberraschend pessimistischen Einschaetzung. Das Vorhandensein eines Betriebsrats...

In a characteristically combative treatment, Jirjahn (2008a) argues that Addison and Teixeira’s (2006) finding of a negative relationship between works council presence and employment growth is a chimera produced by the way in which establishment size is measured. We reject his assertion of...

In this reply, I argue that Addison and Teixeira’s rejoinder to my study is characteristically misleading and erroneous. While the authors agree that my investigation is interesting in its own right, they doubt that my findings indicate misspecification. But they ignore almost all of the...