The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

This paper reviews basic and emerging research trends on the moonshot phenomenon in the business world. It traces the emergence and development of the nuances for this construct, its relationships with the proclaimed corporate culture and some new attributes of management by objectives....

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...

We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...

In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and business studies were examined. We regard both the extent and the quality of journals’ data policies, which should facilitate replications of published empirical research. The paper...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Konzeption von BI als integrierten Gesamtansatz, veranschaulicht das Potenzial für eine innovative Nutzung von Informationen zur Erreichung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen und gibt einen Überblick über ausgewählte zukünftige Entwicklungen und Trends.

This paper surveys a variety of topics related to network economics. Topics covered include: consumer demand under network effects, compatibility decisions and standardization, technology advances in network industries, two-sided markets, information networks and intellectual property, and...

This “case study on the onboarding of employees in the hospital sector” gives all interested parties the opportunity to acquire general knowledge in the areas of clinical management and onboarding. The problem situations or sequences described, originate from business practice, but were also...

Progressive digitization poses a challenge for companies in the healthcare and social economy. Digitalization is associated with an increasing flexibilization of work, which can have both positive and negative effects on employees. The social partners have the task of creating the appropriate...

The author reviews some specific ways in which human resource professionals can assist management in managing other salaried professionals.