mrev management revue

Existing literature has not specifically examined individual business growth in post-growth economies. This paper challenges dominant assumptions in the business growth literature by considering post-growth economies as an organisational context...

At present, little is known about the corporate characteristics that support a socio-economic development towards degrowth. Addressing this research gap, we conducted interviews with companies which have joined the Economy for the Common Good, a...

Organising for post-growth society is called for to enable living on our finite planet. While previous research has suggested that social enterprise could be one form of post-growth organising (PGo), these suggestions might not rely on critical...

Innovative forms of organising are a crucial pillar of post-growth transitions. Situated within a growth-based institutional context, actually existing forms of post-growth organising are ambiguous. Divisions across legal structure, market...

For a long time the postulate that quantitative growth is the entrepreneurial raison d’être and an indispensable obligation for a company has remained unquestioned. Empirical studies on firm size and growth show, however, that a large fraction of...

Digital technologies and the standards underlying them are omnipresent in healthcare. Despite a wealth of knowledge about the relation between standards and issues of autonomy, control and accountability in professional work, we know much less about...

Little is known about how the fear for doocing and the need for digital privacy manifests at the workplace. We address this knowledge gap with a specific interest in the correlation of fear for doocing with age and gender through an online survey,...

Due to recent technological advances, organizations currently face massive changes of their work design and leadership. Unfortunately, the exact nature of these changes is still unclear as most existing studies were conducted during earlier stages...

Discussing, advocating, and contesting the appropriate role of the large-scale business enterprise in a democratic society has been an ongoing activity since the advent of industrial capitalism. For some, corporate behemoths are fundamentally and...

The present diary study builds upon the work-home resources model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012) and the Model of Work-Family Enrichment (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006), and examines time pressure and psychological climate as predictors of work-life...

Working in projects constitutes a modern form of operational performance. Projects promote cooperation, enable a high degree of autonomy, and are thus, in contrast to Tayloristic forms of work, regarded to have rather positive impacts on the...

As our working life becomes more digitalized, the issue of providing humane working conditions is raised. However, current research on digitalization and coping with stress conceptualises the players as individuals passively coping with stress....

The article focuses on concrete occurrences of work-related psychological stress and the strains of temporary workers. Because of their higher sickness rates and incapacity to work, our research question investigates the specific characteristics of...

This study, using samples of four different ICT Chaebol companies, shows how the perceptions of organisational justice predict OCB in the ICT context and how such relationships react with Korean cultural features. Additionally, employees’...

The digital working life affects not only the way employees work, but also the way employees interact within a team. Virtual teamwork is becoming increasingly common, with coworkers often building their initial relationships through online...

The year 2016 was the hundredth anniversary of the publication of John Maurice Clark’s “The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility” in the Journal of Political Economy. Clark’s article is a seminal contribution to the understanding of...

Studies on diversity topics and knowledge management abound in the management literature. However, we still know little about the impact of generational diversity on knowledge transfer. This is surprising, given that particularly the transfer of...

The implementation of new technologies, including business analytics, is commonly seen as a managerial technique to enabling employee control and standardization, i.e. to establish a prevalent way of thinking and reasoning within organizations...

This paper assesses the importance of digitalization in Germany and other developed countries, with particular attention on the potential or actual impacts this process may have on the labor market. Referring to available empirical evidence, we...

This study investigates the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual weekly working hours using the second wave of the German Linked Personnel Panel, a unique employer-employee dataset. ICT usage is widespread among...

Field technology is electronic systems or equipment designed to capture and communicate data on workers in the field so that employers can manage, document or inspect the behavior and job performance of the mobile workforce. In this article, we...