Emerging countries in many cases are more crisis-prone than highly developed industrialized countries. This is in many cases due to a weak or volatile financial sector. The best policy to strengthen crisis resistance is the building up of a sound financial position. A sound financial position of...

Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...

The objective of this article is to study the behavior of German HR managers in the wake of the global crisis. Some criticize them as humble hangmen who simply execute the orders of top management—killing jobs and laying off people. Others praise them as intelligent problem solvers who did an...

"Wie planen die deutschen Unternehmer?" Dieser Frage ist das ifo-Institut schon 1965 einmal nachgegangen. Während damals erst 37% der Industrieunternehmen Gesamtpläne erstellten, waren es nach den neuen Umfrageergebnissen im Jahre 1989 fast 60%. Der Anteil der Unternehmen, die sich auf...