Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been proliferating through the entire business sector over recent decades. This increasing digitalization is having a substantial impact on economic activity and is continuously changing the nature of production processes and our...

This paper examines how various types of organizational change influence a firm’s growth in the short/medium term and long term within emerging economies. We classify organizational change on two dimensions: the scale of change and the duration of change. The proposed hypotheses were tested on...

Die Dissertation untersucht in Form einer Einzelfallstudie den Wandel des Hochschulbereichs, wobei Hochschulrankings als exemplarisches Untersuchungsobjekt dieses Wandels dienen. Hochschulpolitische Reformen haben den Hochschulbereich Europas in den letzten zwanzig Jahren stark geprägt und...

Zahlungsschwierigkeiten und Marktaustritte spielen für die Sicherstellung einer effizienten Allokation eine wesentliche Rolle. Sie können negative soziale und ökonomische Folgen nach sich ziehen und den Verlust von Arbeitsplätzen und Produktion in bestimmten Gebieten, einen Verlust von...

This work aims to analyze the organizational change that has taken the Cooperative Society of Fishing Production "The Patole", S.C. of R.L. de C.V. It is assumed that as a result of having implemented systems theory, it has improved its organizational development and thus fulfillment of its...

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...

In der Diskussion um die Zukunft der Betriebsratsarbeit im Kontext gesamtwirtschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse spielt das Innovationshandeln von "gestaltenden Betriebsräten" eine zentrale Rolle. Die Study untersucht, wie sich unterstützende Leistungen (Qualifizierung, Beratung und Vernetzung)...

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...

The aim of this paper is to explore the scope of coaching in the context of organizational change considering peculiar issues associated with the use of coaching in Latvia and Lithuania. This two-stage study seeks to answer the following research questions. How is coaching defined? What is the...

Does an officially appointed change agent overestimate his change related skills and knowledge in comparison to the assessment of his employees?

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...

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...

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...