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Integration into the Firm - German, Swiss, and U.S. American Monitoring and Coordination Compared
Nolte, Heike - 2010
This article compares instruments which IT-firms use to integrate their business consultants - esp. the way monitoring and coordination of activities works. It is based empirically on interviews with consultants and managers of consulting units of a U.S. American firm in Germany, the Swiss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044423
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The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Innovation Performance : Insights from German Manufacturing and Service Firms
Sarbu, Miruna - 2020
The new type of industrialization called Industry 4.0 is gaining increasing importance for manufacturing and service firms alike. Industry 4.0 is characterized by the interconnection between different information and communication technologies and between production facilities such as machines,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832964
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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement
Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509658
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2012
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it under-utilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103685
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Small Firm Innovation Performance and Employee Involvement
Andries, Petra - 2013
It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091490
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Empirical Determinants of Employee Resistance Against Innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2013
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031306
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428344
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Employer behavior human resource management research and teaching in Germany and Austria
Eckardstein, Dudo von; Konlechner, Stefan - In: Management revue : MRev 22 (2011) 4, pp. 312-324
Management (HRM). However, rather few studies actually seem to take the concrete behavior of organizations as employers into … account. Instead, German textbooks and journals are replete with examples of “good practices” in HRM. We argue that, as a … result, there is a growing discrepancy between HRM in research/teaching and practice, which unquestionably is a problematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764728
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269631