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...

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss von Temporärbeschäftigung auf den Unternehmenserfolgempirisch unter Verwendung repräsentativer Datensätze für Unternehmen in der Schweizrespektive für Betriebe in Deutschland. Dabei wird besonderes Augenmerk auf die Frage gelegt,ob es...

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten ist ein Trend hin zu flacheren Organisationenmit weniger Hierarchieebenen zu verzeichnen gewesen. Eine Verringerung derAnzahl an Führungsstufen kann sowohl positive als auch negative Auswirkungenauf den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg eines Unternehmens haben. Der...

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with lesshierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporationcan have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the neteffect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The present...

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...

Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovative workplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last few decades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the present study establishes the...

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