This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

Purpose – Business networks have to coordinate each of their partners' goals and expectations, as a lack of partner compatibility and goal incongruence could lead to conflict and opportunistic behavior. These potential problems highlight the relevance of partner selection as a means of...

We examine the effect of gender and country (cultural and organizational differences) on the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of information technology (IT) users in Poland (transition economy) and Germany (developed economy). We investigate two dimensions of human capital: the OCB...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German-speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who are...

Some names, especially those with biblical origins, are very popular in the United States. But this then gives rise to an interesting question: Does a good given name lead to a better life and career success? Researchers have shown that the names of job applicants can affect their chances of...

Im Juni 2011 wurde die wissenschaftliche Kommission Hochschulmanagement im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V. (VHB) zum Zeitschriftenranking dieses Verbandes, VHB-JOURQUAL, befragt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine große Mehrheit der Mitglieder und Interessenten der...

Bei der Evaluation von Forschungsleistungen hat das gängige Verfahren, Publikationen anhand der Zeitschriften zu bewerten, in denen sie erschienen sind, ernstzunehmende Schwächen, da es Buchveröffentlichungen unberücksichtigt lässt und vom Ansehen einer Zeitschrift auf die Qualität jedes...

Our study aims to analyse whether former feelings of happiness and/or physical appearance have influence on the subsequent observable research performance of scholars. Therefore we photographed 49 persons attending the 72nd annual conference of the German Academic Association for Business...