In this paper, we develop a simple general-equilibrium trade model in which heterogeneous workers make an investment decision in acquiring advanced managerial skills and choose their optimal effort level based on their own individual organizational beliefs and CEOś managerial vision. In doing...

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...

While there has recently been an increased interest in urban and regional transitions to sustainability, there are little profound insights about the emergence, design and enforcement of regional transition paths to sustainability (RTPS). The latter are characterized by organizational and...

Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...

Change Management beeinflusst die Wohlfahrt von Mitarbeitern, Managern und Organisationseinheiten auf unterschiedliche Weise. Selbst wenn organisatorischer Wandel langfristig einen positiven Wohlfahrtseffekt hat, können Widerstände entstehen, die sich als einseitige Rationalfallen...

Organisatorischer Wandel impliziert in vielen Fällen eine Zunahme der Risiken für die Belegschaft. Hieraus ergeben sich oft Widerstände. Dieser Beitrag veranschaulicht, wie Change Manager mithilfe geeigneter Governance-Strukturen die Risikoproduktivität im Unternehmen erhöhen können. Dies...

The situational logic of multi-sided dilemmas often inhibits organizational change. This article develops a heuristic that can support change managers in distinguishing between optimization of moves within a game and adjustment of formal and informal governance structures of the game. This...

Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...