Irene Bertschek, Ulrich Kaiser, Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence, Management Science, Vol. 50 (3), 2004. (Journal Article)
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT investment, labor productivity, and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the associated reorganization costs. Two different types of organizational change are considered: enhancement group work and flattening of hierarchies. Empirical evidence is provided for a sample of 411 firms from the German business-related services sector. We develop and estimate a model for labor productivity and firms' decision to reorganize workplaces that allows workplace reorganization to affect any parameter of the labor productivity equation. Our general and flexible methodology allows us to properly take account of strategic complementarities between the input factors and workplace reorganization. The estimation results show that changes in human resources practices do not significantly affect firms' output elasticities with respect to ICT, non-ICT capital, and labor, although most of the point estimates of the individual output elasticities and of the control variables for observable firm heterogeneity are larger if workplace reorganization is realized. We therefore apply the Kernel density-estimation technique and demonstrate that for firms with organizational change, the entire labor productivity distribution shifts significantly out to the right if workplace reorganization takes place, indicating that workplace reorganization induces an increase in labor productivity that is attributable to complementarities between the various input factors and workplace reorganization. By contrast, firms without organizational change would not have realized significant productivity gains if they had reorganized workplaces. |
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Phu Nguyen Van, François Laisney, Ulrich Kaiser, The Performance of German Firms in the Business-Related Service Sector: A Dynamic Analysis, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 22 (3), 2004. (Journal Article)
We analyze the performance of firms from the German business-related service sector for 1994-2000. Performance is measured by ordinal assessment of changes in total sales. We estimate first-order Markov chain models using extensions of the multinomial logit model: a linear index model with alternative specifications of heterogeneity and a semiparametric model. The preferred specification involves heterogeneity connected to the firm and the type of transition. Our findings include that size has a positive effect on performance, young firms outperform older competitors, a single creditor has a stabilizing effect, diversification has a negative impact, and performance is significantly affected by legal status. Measuring performance through profit rather than sales does not alter the qualitative results. |
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IfM-Bonn-Forschungsnews zum Mittelstand. IfM Bonn, Edited by: Uschi Backes-Gellner, Bonn, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Edited by: Uschi Backes-Gellner, G Fandel, Wolfgang Kürsten, Wiesbaden, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE), Edited by: T Volery, U Fueglistaller, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Jahrbuch zur Mittelstandsforschung. IfM Bonn, Edited by: Uschi Backes-Gellner, D Bös, DUV Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Schriften zur Mittelstandsforschung. IfM Bonn, Edited by: Uschi Backes-Gellner, D Bös, DUV Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Unternehmensnachfolge, 2004. (Other Publication)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Der Beitrag der Berufsbildung zum Unternehmenserfolg und Entwicklung des beruflichen Qualifikationsbedarfs, 2004. (Other Publication)
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Sybille Sachs, Edwin Rühli, Changing managers’ values towards a broader stakeholder orientation, Corporate Governance, Vol. 5 (2), 2004. (Journal Article)
Challenged by recent incidents as they occurred at Enron, WorldCom, Disney and Xerox, management has to rethink its values and to consider the expectations of their stakeholders. In reality, it can be observed that some firms are already on a learning path to adopt a broader stakeholder‐oriented view than before. In order to implement the stakeholder view better into strategic thinking of management, top managers have to change their values which are challenged by stakeholder‐oriented incentives. Based on three comparative case studies some first propositions are developed. |
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Johannes Mure, Berufliche Weiterbildung, In: Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, Gabler, Wiesbaden, p. 365 - 366, 2004. (Book Chapter)
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Helmut Max Dietl, Egon Franck, S Winter, Discovery in the New Economy - why entrepreneurs may not contract with investors, In: Modern concepts of the theory of the firm : managing enterprises of the New Economy, Springer, Berlin, p. 386 - 397, 2004. (Book Chapter)
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Helmut Max Dietl, Egon Franck, Effizienzanalyse von Transferrestriktionen im europäischen Profifussball, Edition Sportkönomie, Sportmanagent (3), 2004. (Journal Article)
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D Timmermann, G Färber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, G Bosch, B Nagel, Finanzierung Lebenslangen Lernens: Der Weg in die Zukunft. Abschlussbericht der Expertenkommission Finanzierung Lebenslangen Lernens, Bertelsmann, Bielefeld, 2004. (Book/Research Monograph)
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Egon Franck, C Opitz, Hochschulorganisation, In: Handwörterbuch Unternehmensführung und Organisation, Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag, Stuttgart, p. 413 - 421, 2004. (Book Chapter)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, C Schmidtke, Institutionenökonomische Ansätze des Personalmanagements, In: Handwörterbuch des Personalwesens, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, p. 918 - 928, 2004. (Book Chapter)
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Uschi Backes-Gellner, Karriereanreize für Wissenschaftler an Hochschulen im deutsch-amerikanischen Vergleich - Die Komplexität von Erfüllbarkeitsproblemen, Schöningh, Paderborn, 2004. (Book/Research Monograph)
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R W Kays, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Materielle Mitarbeiterbeteiligung in mittelständischen Unternehmen. Welche personalwirtschaftlichen Ziele sind erreichbar?, Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Vol. 52 (2), 2004. (Journal Article)
Personalwirtschaftliche Zielsetzungen dominieren ohne Frage bei der Einführung von materiellen Mitarbeiterbeteiligungsmodellen. Neben der Stärkung der Identifikation mit dem Unternehmen verfolgt die Mehrzahl von Beteiligungsunternehmen die Steigerung der Motivation der Mitarbeiter, die Steigerung ihrer Arbeitszufriedenheit und die Gewinnung bzw. Bindung qualifizierten Personals. Meist streben die befragten Unternehmen nicht nur ein einzelnes Ziel, sondern ein Zielbündel an. Ein direkter Zusammenhang zwischen den von den Unternehmen verfolgten Zielen und dem jeweils eingeführten Beteiligungsmodell ist nicht zu erkennen. Führt man sich die verschiedenartigen Beteiligungsformen einmal näher vor Augen, so kommen allerdings Zweifel auf, ob die mit Beteiligungsmodellen erreichbaren Ziele tatsächlich unabhängig vom konkreten Beteiligungsmodell sind. Und besteht nicht möglicherweise ein Zielkonflikt? Von elementarer Bedeutung ist zudem, ob die bloße Einführung eines materiellen Beteiligungssystems bereits zur Zielerreichung führt. Diesen Fragen soll im Folgenden nachgegangen werden, wobei die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, welche personalwirtschaftlichen Wirkungen sich unter welchen Bedingungen mit welchen Beteiligungsmodellen erreichen lassen, im Mittelpunkt des Beitrages stehen wird. Dieser Analyse geht ein Überblick über die wesentlichen Formen der materiellen Mitarbeiterbeteiligung und ihrer Verbreitung in Deutschland voraus. |
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Helmut Max Dietl, Egon Franck, T Hasan, Meistermacher. Die Genossenschaft als mögliche Organisationsform für Sportligen, Bankinformation und Genossenschaftsforum, Vol. 12, 2004. (Journal Article)
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Modern concepts of the theory of the firm: managing enterprises of the New Economy, Edited by: G Fandel, Uschi Backes-Gellner, M Schlüter, J E Staufenbiel, Springer, Berlin, 2004. (Edited Scientific Work)
The authors analyse the New Economy from a scientific point of view. The success and the failure of enterprises of the new economy form a challenge to the modern business management and to the theory of the firm. This conference transcript answers the question in which way well-established concepts of the theory of the firm should be modified or new approaches should be created, in order to run enterprises of the new economy successfully. The discussion includes various fields of the theory of the firm and is therefore divided into the six essential disciplines of economic research, which are Production and Procurement, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Human Resource Management and Economic Organization and Corporate Governance. The international orientation of the book addresses the world-wide scientific community. |
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