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Will 'structural reforms' of labour markets reduce productivity growth? A firm-level investigation

Vergeer, Robert; Dhondt, Steven; Kleinknecht, Alfred; … - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 12 (2015) 3, pp. 300-317

More 'flexible' labour relations significantly reduce labour productivity growth in sectors that tend towards a 'routinised' (other than a 'garage business') innovation regime. We argue that structural reforms that make firing easier will diminish the loyalty and commitment of workers, making...

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Industry 4.0, servitization, and reshoring: A systematic literature review

Bilbao Ubillos, Javier; Camino-Beldarrain, Vicente; … - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 30 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12

The goal of this literature review is first of all to help define, characterise and contextualise the phenomena that make up Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the servitisation of manufacturing and re-shoring; and secondly to explore the strong interactions between them. We conduct a systemic literature...

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Berlin’s Manifold Strategies Towards Commercial and Industrial Spaces: The Different Cases of Zukunftsorte

Suwala, Lech; Kitzmann, Robert; Kulke, Elmar - In: Urban Planning 6 (2021) 3, pp. 415-430

Despite being the third largest industrial agglomeration in the world before World War II, Berlin was faced with an economic void after the partition and reunification of the city with many abandoned and alienated commercial and industrial spaces in a compact urban fabric. What has happened with...

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Technologiepolitik in Japan und Südkorea: ist die klassische Industriepolitik passé?

Goydke, Tim - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 128-141

Japans und Koreas wirtschaftliche Entwicklung nach 1945 ist stark durch den Einsatz industriepolitischer Maßnahmen geprägt worden. Dabei ist Korea dem japanischen Vorbild mit einer Verzögerung von 10 bis 15 Jahren gefolgt. In beiden Ländern hat sich die Industriepolitik immer stärker zu...

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Circular economy (CE) assumptions in WEEE management: Polish case study

Smol, Marzena; Avdiushchenko, Anna; Kulczycka, Joanna - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 16 (2016) 4, pp. 531-549

performance can bring large economic benefits. One of the most important advantages of CE systems is to keep the added value in …

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Managerial skills, technology adaptation and firm performance: Mediating role of process innovation and product innovation

Asghar, Nabila; Khattak, Amira; Danish, Muhammad Hassan; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-18

The main aim of every organization is to improve performance and productivity, but this is only possible with efficient … managerial skills and technology adaptation on firm performance and productivity through the mediation channel of process … the productivity and performance of firms. The present research is focused on the implementation of new technology and …

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Dematerialised and re-dematerialised economy: 3D printing as a key technological and environment-friendly innovation

Mamica, Łukasz - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 18 (2018) 1, pp. 265-291

The development of 3D printing enables the process of direct transfer of ideas (understood as digital vectors) into physical objects using only one universal device. Later these objects could be milled and the same material reused, allowing ideas for effective re-materialisation and...

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"Cyberspace ecologism 4.0": Between software softeners of and hardware hardships on the natural environment

Jora, Octavian-Dragomir; Damoc, Adrian-Ioan; Roșca, Vlad I. - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 24 (2022) 59, pp. 9-27

Planet Earth, with its plethora of natural (im)balances, has a venerable age of 4.54 billion years; the (industrial) imprint placed by the human species on it, considered to be not negligible, counts of just little over two centuries; while the digital/IT&C/virtual existence of man, in what we...

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Führung durch Zielsetzung und Kontrolle - Das Konzept des Management by Objectives - Darstellung und Kritik

Scholtz, Hellmut D. - In: Die Rentenversicherung 24 (1984) 9, pp. 161-172

Der Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über die positiven und negativen Aspekte bei der Organisation und Anwendung des MBO in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung einschließlich der psychologischen und kybernetischen Grundlagen.

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Goal setting and worker motivation

Goerg, Sebastian J. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

solely on monetary incentives, such as pay-for-performance schemes? One tool that has shown promise in recent decades for … improving worker performance is setting goals, whether they are assigned by management or self-chosen. Goals are powerful …

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