This paper uses insights and data gained from 15 years of involvement in a research network studying HRM developments in Europe to explore the notion of 'European HRM' and the meanings of convergence and divergence in HRM Using data from the last decade of the Cranet research, the paper puts...

This paper empirically explores relations between network positions in knowledge networks andtrust. In social network theory the closure argument and the gossip argument describe thisrelation. These two arguments do not distinguish between different dimensions of trust. In thispaper we estimate...

Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich its knowledge. The book presents the results of six studies that explain...

Das ifo Institut befragte 702 Unternehmen, davon 539 in West- und 163 in Ostdeutschland, ob bei Mitarbeitern und Geschäftspartnern Werthaltungen wie Fleiß, Gemeinsinn und Gesetzestreue in der Vergangenheit eher zugenommen, abgenommen oder gleichgeblieben sind. So haben sich nach Einschätzung...

Informelle Netzwerkbeziehungen sind im Unternehmen fuer eine effektive Zusammenarbeit von existentieller Bedeutung. Sie regeln einen Grossteil des Informationsaustausches, sind zentral fuer die Leistungs- und Innovationsfaehigkeit und steuern den innerbetrieblichen Aufstieg in Unternehmen.Die...

"Trust" or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable attention by economists in the last 8-10 years. In this contribution, much emphasis is put on the understanding what we really mean by "confidence", what the differences between...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

The objective of this article is to introduce readers to the emerging research stream on business ecosystems, explicating the novelty and the usefulness of ecosystem-based theorizing, and hoping to pave the way for an influential but cumulative body of knowledge. The key tenets within an...