This highly original and carefully researched work outlines the relationship between national and organizational culture, empirically investigates forms of organizational culture in Germany, and considers how economic performance and innovation are consequently affected. It charts the historical and intellectual origins of German national culture and presents a cultural account of the country's economic development, modes of commercial cooperation and current reform problems. Taking liberal political theory as its basis, the book identifies remainders of clan thinking and patronage - as well as pessimism and fear of modernity - as Germany's cultural burdens that hamper reform and innovation. Management and Organization in Germany suggests a combination of institutional and cultural approaches to Germany's modernization based on local but bold reform initiatives. This book combines history, political theory and administrative science and conveys management thinking and the current reform debates in Germany to a global readership.

Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. Originally published in 2006, this book explains the mechanisms of the management consulting market and the management of consulting firms from both economic and sociological perspectives. It also examines the strategies, marketing approaches, knowledge management and human resource management techniques of consulting firms. After outlining the relationships between transaction cost economics, signaling theory, embeddedness theory and sociological neoinstitutionalism, Thomas Armbruster applies these theories to central questions such as: Why does the consulting sector exist and grow? Which institutions connect supply and demand? And which factors influence the relationship between clients and consultants? By applying both economic and sociological approaches, the book explains the general economic changes of the previous thirty years and sharpens the relationship between the academic disciplines.

Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. Originally published in 2006, this book explains the mechanisms of the management consulting market and the management of consulting firms from both economic and sociological perspectives. It also examines the strategies, marketing approaches, knowledge management and human resource management techniques of consulting firms. After outlining the relationships between transaction cost economics, signaling theory, embeddedness theory and sociological neoinstitutionalism, Thomas Armbruster applies these theories to central questions such as: Why does the consulting sector exist and grow? Which institutions connect supply and demand? And which factors influence the relationship between clients and consultants? By applying both economic and sociological approaches, the book explains the general economic changes of the previous thirty years and sharpens the relationship between the academic disciplines.

There continues to be numerous unsettled legal issues surrounding stolen artwork nearly 60 years after the end of the Second World War. This book presents the actual and legal proceedings regarding restitution by the Western Allies based on numerous documents that were viewed in diverse archives.

Anstatt Netzwerke nur aus der Sicht einzelner Akteure zu betrachten, richten die Autoren ihren Blick auf die multilaterale Zusammenarbeit. Wissenschaftler, Unternehmens- und Rechtsberater diskutieren Konzepte wie Netzwerkgut oder laterale Governance, auf deren Grundlage Netzwerke ausgestaltet und ihre Innovationskraft gefordert werden kann. Auch die Wahl der Rechtsform, der Controllinginstrumente sowie der Einsatz von Kommunikationstechnologien werden thematisiert. Erfolgsfaktoren arbeiten die Autoren anhand detaillierter Fallstudien heraus."

Die oekonomische Ausrichtung der Verwaltung schreitet voran. Privatwirtschaftliche Unternehmensberatungen sind mehr und mehr in diesen Prozess eingebunden. In der Zusammenarbeit von oeffentlicher Verwaltung und Unternehmensberatern prallen dabei nicht selten zwei Welten aufeinander. Wie Fuhrungskrafte im oeffentlichen Dienst als auch Unternehmensberater Skepsis und Reserviertheit ablegen und den gemeinsamen Prozess der Erfahrungsaufnahme und -weitergabe voranbringen, beleuchtet dieses Buch. Dabei lassen die Autoren die Beteiligten beider Seiten zu Wort kommen und fugen die Erkenntnisse zu einem Gesamtbild dieses Beratungssegments und seiner Mechanismen zusammen. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf eGovernment als Katalysator der Verwaltungsreform.

Die Autoren untersuchen, welche Marketingstrategien Unternehmensberatungen verfolgen, welche Rolle personliches Vertrauen, Reputation und Weiterempfehlungen von Kunden spielen und ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen Beratungsmarketing und Firmenwachstum besteht.