Nach wie vor sind Frauen in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors deutlich in der Minderheit. Dem Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren die Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte der 100 größten Banken Ende des Jahres 2016 zu gut 21 Prozent mit Frauen besetzt. Damit stagnierte der Anteil...

Die seit Januar 2016 verbindliche Geschlechterquote für Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland zeigt eine erste Wirkung: Dem Managerinnen- Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren in den unter die Quotenregelung fallenden 106 Unternehmen Ende 2016 deutlich mehr Frauen in den Kontrollgremien vertreten als...

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...

The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one...

Nach wie vor sind Frauen in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors deutlich in der Minderheit. Dem Managerinnen-Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren die Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte der 100 größten Banken Ende des Jahres 2016 zu gut 21 Prozent mit Frauen besetzt. Damit stagnierte der Anteil...

Die seit Januar 2016 verbindliche Geschlechterquote für Aufsichtsräte in Deutschland zeigt eine erste Wirkung: Dem Managerinnen- Barometer des DIW Berlin zufolge waren in den unter die Quotenregelung fallenden 106 Unternehmen Ende 2016 deutlich mehr Frauen in den Kontrollgremien vertreten als...

We show that increasing the intensity of product market competition can reduce discrimination against female managers, even in an environment in which all employers have a preference for discrimination. The reason is that due to the glass ceiling effect, female managers will, on average, be more...

Small and medium-sized enterprises play an important role in the European economy as a source of entrepreneurial skills, innovation and employment. Strategic management is vital for long-term competitiveness of these organizations, and even more significant when struggling with a crisis....

Many companies are using only a portion of what is needed in terms of Information Technologies (IT) and this has caused the researcher to study how best MSD can effectively utilize Management Information Systems (MIS). The objective that directed the study was to investigate value addition by...

A tanulmány 105 magyarországi szervezettel készített kérdőíves felmérés eredményeire támaszkodva vizsgálja a szervezetek változásmenedzselési magatartását a tulajdonosi struktúra (hazai vagy külföldi, magán- vagy köztulajdon, cégcsoporthoz tartozás) függvényében. Az...

A minőség fogalma és szerepe a vállalatirányításban folyamatosan fejlődik. A tanulmány áttekinti, hogy a termék- és folyamat megfelelőségének megközelítésétől több évtizedes fejlődéssel hogyan jutottunk el a minőség mai, integráló jelentéséig. Napjainkra a...

A globalizáció hatására a vállalatok között a verseny sokkal élesebb, mint korábban Milyen eszközök segítségével tudnak a vállalatok a feldolgozóiparban sikereket elérni a 2008-ban bekövetkezett gazdasági válság után kialakult törékeny rendszerben? A tanulmány egy a...

This article discusses the characteristics of the “Insurance Business 2000” project that unites the academic doctrine both with reality and the relating construction of the most significant forms, non-traditional services and new relations used by some banking houses. The article objective...

Az intézményi változások utóbbi két-három évtizedben tapasztalható dinamikája, eddig nem ismert intézmények felbukkanása, ráirányította figyelmet a kérdésre, hogy miként jönnek létre új intézmények. A 90-es évektől kezdve a szakirodalomban megjelent egy új terminus...

Tanulmányukban a szerzők az European Lotteries felelős játékszervezési standardjának fejezetei mentén, állami szerencsejáték-szervezők szakértőinek bevonásával súlyozták a CSR-teljesítményértékelésének szempontjait. Az önértékelésen alapuló, 12 dimenzió mentén...

Today’s organizations have a wide variety of tools at hand to provide relevant information to management that can be used later on for various purposes, including performance evaluation and decision making. This paper investigates the range of management control (MC) tools in use and its...

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...

Although trust is fundamental to social and organizational functioning, the media often portray managers as distrusting, suggesting that distrust of others is a typical personality variable of successful leaders. This study puts the cliché of the distrustful manager to the test. Both selfreport...

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...

The main aim of the study was to identify if management ethics have a positive impact on payment discipline. Our sample includes 273 Slovene enterprises, which represent 9.1% of 2978 Slovenian enterprises with 10 or more employees, selected from the database of the Slovenian rating agency I...

Eine ausgewogene Repräsentation von Männern und Frauen in den Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen in Deutschland bleibt in weiter Ferne. In den Vorständen der 200 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen lag der Frauenanteil Ende vergangenen Jahres bei gut sechs Prozent - ein Anstieg von weniger als einem...

Der Anteil von Frauen in Spitzengremien im Finanzsektor hat im Jahr 2015 erneut zugenommen, Männer geben aber mit überwältigender Mehrheit den Ton an. In den 100 größten Banken in Deutschland lag der Frauenanteil in Vorständen Ende 2015 bei knapp acht Prozent und in den 59 größten...

The purpose of the present work was to analyse the importance of the use of information systems and technologies in management procedures in the hospital sector. We therefore intended to evidence the effects of the use of the information produced by means of those instruments in the improvement...

If there is some experience of project management in the rural economy on European Union markets, we can say that in Romania things go slowly. This can be primarily distinguished by poor absorption of European funds. Establishing a strategy, set up of Digital Agenda are targets assumed and...

To experience a rapid development in the past decade brought the IT industry ordered the establishment of new performance indicators for world economies. These new indicators refer to the information society development. Thus, is going to be the question in any economic the administration and...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das Phänomen der schnell wachsenden Unternehmen zunehmend das Forschungsinteresse auf sich gezogen. Diese Untersuchung befasst sich mit den Wachstumsherausforderungen von Hyper Growth Startups, welchen es gelungen ist, innerhalb der ersten zehn Geschäftsjahre...