Rüdiger Kabst

Universität Paderborn | UPB · Department 1: Management

Purpose This paper investigates the effect of counter-cultural human resources (CCHR) practices on firm performance. Specifically, it investigates the impact of national culture [future orientation (FO), in-group collectivism (I-GC), performance orientation (PO), power distance (PD) and uncertainty avoidance (UA)] on the calculative and collaborati...

Social enterprises follow the dual mission of achieving social aims as well as attaining financial sustainability and therefore elude easy categorization into either a non-profit or for-profit organization. Consequently, social enterprises might struggle with their image since external stakeholders (e.g., job applicants and customers) could hold ba...

This paper replicates and extends Gooderham, Nordhaug, and Ringdal’s (1999) seminal article on institutional embeddedness. It conducts a quasi-replication of firms in six European countries. We find the pattern of differential HR practice use remained stable even as all countries moved toward greater HR practice use (i.e., directional convergence)....

Companies increasingly recognize the importance of communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) including their engagement toward employees, the community, the environment and other stakeholder groups to attract applicants. The positive findings on the effect of CSR on applicants’ reactions are commonly based on the assumption that companies...

Purpose Enabled by increased (“big”) data stocks and advanced (“machine learning”) analyses, the concept of human resource analytics (HRA) is expected to systematically improve decisions in human resource management (HRM). Since so far empirical evidence on this is, however, lacking, the authors' study examines which combinations of data and analys...

Companies increasingly recognize the importance of communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) including their engagement toward employees, the community, the environment and other stakeholder groups to attract applicants. The positive findings on the effect of CSR on applicants’ reactions are commonly based on the assumption that companies...

Ulrich’s framework of the human resource business partner model (HRBPM) suggests that both the strategic HRM roles (i.e. strategic partner and change agent) and operational HRM roles (i.e. administrative expert and employee champion) jointly add value to an organization. To deepen our understanding of the link between the HRBPM and organizational p...

Unternehmen sehen sich einer zunehmend komplexen und dynamischen Umwelt gegenüber. Tradierte Geschäftsmodelle sind gefährdet, da die Digitalisierung auch jungen Unternehmen und Startups die Möglichkeit eröffnet, neue Märkte in unverwandten Branchen zu erschließen. Gerade findet daher eine Rückbesinnung zahlreicher etablierter Unternehmen auf ihre u...

Based on strategic consensus literature and the strategic integration of HRM, this study hypothesizes that HR and line managers' shared views on HR strategic integration (i.e., strategic congruence) lead to beneficial organizational outcomes. Drawing on a dyadic sample of 102 organizations, we examine the strategic congruence of line management (LM...

This study evaluates national culture's influence on the incentive practice-firm performance relationship. Hofstede's work (1993) and institutional theory (North, 1990) suggest national culture will moderate incentive effectiveness, while others suggest it has minimal impact (Gerhart & Fang, 2005). We find performance orientation (PO), in-group col...

The extant research advocates for the strategic integration of human resource management (HRM) in managerial decision making to foster firm performance. However, the empirical evidence of a stronger strategic integration of HRM is still limited, especially in terms of strategic guidelines such as a human resource (HR) strategy and international com...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of national culture on organizations’ use of selection practices, specifically to investigate the impact of in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and power distance on interview panels, one-on-one interviews, applications forms, references, ability, technical and psychometric tes...

Consultative participation of citizens in political decision-making processes has been increasing in order to facilitate democratic legitimacy and responsiveness. Consequently, participatory budgets have been established as a 'best practice' for consultative participation of citizens in political decision-making processes. The authors compare parti...

The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research has focused on the quality of public participation pro...

Drawing on the information processing perspective, this paper investigates how young adults' attitudes toward entrepreneurship are shaped by their beliefs about the role and activities of entrepreneurs. Our first study (N = 129) reveals that young adults hold a biased set of beliefs. They believe that entrepreneurship affords agentic aspects (e.g.,...

The article conducts a meta–analysis on the relationship between internationalization and firm performance in international entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from 15,648 internationalizing entrepreneurial firms nested in 43 independent samples reveals a positive relationship between degree and scope of internationalization and performance. Knowl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of national culture on the adoption of four different incentive pay bundles (incentive maximizer, contingent rewarder, profit rewarder, and incentive minimizer) using GLOBE national culture dimensions in 14 countries. It uses incentive pay bundles derived by Prince et al. (2016). D...

Understanding the general linkage between citizens' political efficacy and their satisfaction with and trust in local administrative units is essential to understand the consequences of administrative decision-making. This article offers a SEM approach that shows how citizens' political efficacy, i.e. through secure e-Government services, affects s...

Purpose Two simultaneous trends have arisen in the field of HRM: the development of the HR function towards a more strategic, value adding unit and the trend of HR outsourcing (HRO). Opinions are divided in the field of HRM research regarding the interdependences between these two trends and whether the HR function has a positive or negative effec...

Kiss, A. N., Fernhaber, S., & McDougall–Covin, P. P. (2018). Slack, Innovation, and Export Intensity: Implications for Small– and Medium–Sized Enterprises. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Jiang, H., Cannella, A. A., & Jiao, J. (2018). Does Desperation Breed Deceiver? A Behavioral Model of New Venture Opportunism. Entrepreneurship Theory and P...

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt eine kompakte und sehr gut verständliche Einführung in die Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Es macht in didaktisch einprägsamer Form mit den Grundbegriffen sowie den wichtigsten Problemen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und ihrem Denken vertraut. Jedes Kapitel enthält Lernziele, die die jeweiligen Inhalte kurz zusammenfassen. Ein umfangr...

Guided by two competing theoretical perspectives, we investigate the contextual role of perceived regulatory stakeholder pressure in the relationship between firms’ strategic orientation and their pursuit of a proactive environmental strategy (PES). While the enhancing perspective suggests that perceived regulatory stakeholder pressure strengthens...

Trust and satisfaction with the government are the most important indicators of a functioning democratic system. Scholars diverge in their opinions of whether satisfaction causes trust or vice versa or whether both variables reinforce each other simultaneously. This study applies an instrumental variable approach to shed light on this discussion. W...

Policy making depends on good knowledge of the corresponding target audience. To maximize the designated outcome, it is essential to understand the underlying coherences. Machine learning techniques are capable of analyzing data containing behavioral aspects, evaluations, attitudes, and social values. We show how existing machine learning technique...

Kiss, A. N., Fernhaber, S., & McDougall–Covin, P. P. (2018). Slack, Innovation, and Export Intensity: Implications for Small– and Medium–Sized Enterprises. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Jiang, H., Cannella, A. A., & Jiao, J. (2018). Does Desperation Breed Deceiver? A Behavioral Model of New Venture Opportunism. Entrepreneurship Theory and P...

The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research has focused on the quality of public participation pro...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build on previous studies on the link between objective and subjective person-organization fit (P-O fit) and argue that the strength between objective and subjective fit is contingent on advertisement attractiveness and organizational image. Accordingly, the authors observe if advertisement attractiveness a...

The participation of the public in political decisions is a subject with a long history, in which public participation was subject to many development processes and has been gaining in importance particularly in the past years. The key issues therein are the influence of social developments and the increasing impact of information and communication...

In recent years, social changes have significantly increased the importance of public participation, and technological developments have delivered additional opportunities for participation in political decision-making processes in Western democracies. Nevertheless, despite discussions on this topic, little is known about the desirability of future...

Purpose – Organizations worldwide are faced with the challenge of motivating and retaining employees. In addressing this challenge, organizations may use a variety of incentive pay practices to align employee behavior with organizational objectives. The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify the incentive pay practice configurations or b...

Purpose – Demographic changes increase age diversity (AD) within organizations and teams. However, previous studies show inconsistent results. The goal of the current study is to take stock of the literature and conduct a quantitative review of the relationship between AD and the most essential team outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – We quanti...

Governments and public administrations face multiple challenges and opportunities for innovation in the area of public services – created by ongoing ICT developments and shifting service demands among citizens. Citizens experience the advantages of ICT-driven services in all areas of life and request these advantages in their communications and int...

The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a prominent framework for predicting and explaining behavior in a variety of domains. The theory is also increasingly being used as a framework for conducting behavior change interventions. In this meta-analysis, we identified 82 papers reporting results of 123 interventions in a variety of disciplines. Our a...

Many organizations transfer parts of their recruitment process to external service providers—often referred to as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)—to save costs and enhance the quality of their recruitment procedures. However, contrary to the expectations regarding RPO, Wehner, Giardini, and Kabst (2012) found that RPO might cause negative rea...

The present paper takes a configurational perspective and investigates the joint effect of en-trepreneurial orientation (EO), market orientation (MO), and learning orientation (LO) on growth-based performance of high-technology firms. Applying fuzzy-set Qualitative Com-parative Analysis combined with moderated regression analysis, results suggest t...

This study investigates the relationship between high-performance work practices (HPWP) and individually perceived stress. Contrary to most past research, which evaluates HPWPs positively, this study emphasizes the potential downside of HPWPs, and suggests that some HPWPs are more strongly associated with enhanced stress than others. Drawing on the...

The present paper conceptualizes the interdependence of individual-level experience on organizational-level absorptive capacity (ACAP) to explain organizations’ competitive advantages. Drawing on and expanding the theoretical framework by Zahra and George (2002), we conceptualize a theoretical model for ACAP specifically tailored to the context of...

The impact of gender diversity on team performance has become a central topic in the field of human resource management (HRM) for researchers and practitioners alike. Extant research provides conflicting evidence on the relationship between gender diversity and team performance. To resolve these contradictory findings, we meta-analyze the relations...

Despite considerable research, empirical findings on the relationship between Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) (i.e., strategic renewal, innovation and corporate venturing) and performance remain inconclusive. Using a meta-analysis, the present paper synthesizes prior literature regarding the CE-performance relationship of 43 independent samples inc...

Consultative participation of citizens in political decision-making processes has been increasing in order to facilitate democratic legitimacy and responsiveness. Consequently, participatory budgets have been established as a 'best practice' for consultative participation of citizens in political decision-making processes. The authors compare parti...

Research on International Entrepreneurship recently argues for a fine-grained perspective on different internationalization patterns. By combining prior literature on internationalization patterns with the regionalization hypothesis, we theoretically derive four distinct internationalization patterns of small firms (i.e. born-globals, born-again gl...

Prior literature on international joint ventures (IJVs) has primarily focused on different stages of the IJV process such as the initiation or reconfiguration stage. However, extant research has largely neglected how changes from one stage to another impact on the stability of IJVs. To advance existing knowledge in the field, the present study link...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine whether controllers are willing to and/or general managers are expecting them to act as business partners and, hence, to analyze the related consequences from a manager’s point of view. Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on a dyadic data set gathered from 112 German head controllers...

This study examines the effects of the perceived congruity of recruitment advertisements and organizational image on organizational attractiveness. Based on Mandler's schema congruity theory (1982) and on recruitment research, we developed hypotheses and tested them on a sample of 1,091 individuals. The results show that recruitment advertisements...

The impact of national culture on organizational practices is often discussed by researchers. To contribute to the discussion, this paper examines the relationship between national culture and organizational communication practices. In particular, we investigate the impact of power distance, uncertainty avoidance, humane orientation, and assertiven...

We examine the relationship between immigrant concentration and entrepreneurial activities in a country. Building on the role of knowledge in entrepreneurship, we hypothesize that immigrant concentration is positively related to the prevalence of total, growth-oriented, and export-oriented entrepreneurial activities through the influx of immigrants...

e-Participation has advantages over traditional modes of public participation: independent of time and place, information can be provided and updated at reasonable costs. A broad range of citizens can be involved regardless of demographics, family or work situation, thereby broadening the basis for public participation. Thus, public authorities see...

Drawing on transaction cost economics (TCE) and social exchange theory (SET), we develop and test an integrative model of strategic alliance performance using meta-analytic structural equation modelling. Results reveal that TCE’s key constructs (e.g., relationship specific investments, opportunism, and environmental uncertainty) influence SET’s key...

e-Participation has advantages over traditional modes of public participation: independent of time and place, information can be provided and updated at reasonable costs. A broad range of citizens can be involved regardless of demographics, family or work situation, thereby broadening the basis for public participation. Thus, public authorities see...

Despite considerable research, the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic employment is still inconclusive. The present paper contributes to extant research by providing differentiated findings on the FDI and domestic employment relationship. We examine how horizontal and vertical FDI impact domestic employment and how th...

Despite considerable research, the current state regarding how and in which context prior entrepreneurial exposure impacts the entrepreneurial process is unclear. The present paper's goal is to systemize and discuss extant quantitative-empirical research on the role of prior entrepreneurial exposure in the entrepreneurial process to clarify the cur...

Purpose - The paper investigates types , contexts and consequences of e-HRM configurations to get a deeper understanding of the reasons, kinds and success of different e-HRM types. Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses a cross-sectional survey of senior HR persons and analyses data with exploratory methods, i.e. cluster analysis, classificat...

This study compares the effect of printed recruitment advertisements and recruitment websites on applicant attraction and shows how these recruitment activities interact with one another. Our results indicate that websites have a significantly stronger impact on applicant attraction than printed advertisements. We show that websites and printed rec...

Ein Zusammenhang zwischen Teamdiversität und Leistung konnte trotz intensiver Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten nicht belegt werden. Manche empirische Studien weisen eine positive signifikante Beziehung mit der Teamleistung auf, während andere wiederum eine negative oder nicht signifikante Beziehung mit der Teamleistung aufweisen. Basierend auf...

The utilization of interim management increases steadily. However, its impact on firms’ flexibility and performance remains unclear. Drawing on the flexible firm model, we derive hypotheses for the influence of interim management utilization on the firm’s functional, numerical, and financial flexibility. We test the hypotheses on a dataset of 294 G...

The present paper disentangles the effect of prior entrepreneurial exposure on entrepreneurial intention in terms of different types of exposure and their perceived quality. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, the paper analyzes whether attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control mediate the influence of entrepreneurial role...

Die Absatzwirtschaft umfasst die Gesamtheit aller Funktionen und Institutionen, die die Abgabe der Betrielbsleistungen an andere Wirtschaftseinheiten bewirken. Dieses Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit Prozessen und Strategien, die den Verkauf von Produkten fördern. Es wird auf Ziele und Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten in der strategischen Positionierung eingega...

In diesem Kapitel wird erläutert, inwiefern externe Faktoren aus dem Umfeld eines Unternehmens Auswirkungen auf dessen Tätigkeit und Erfolg haben. Entscheidend ist nicht nur die wirtschaftliche Ordnung. Beispielsweise können auch die Kultur der Gesellschaft des Landes, in dem sich ein Unternehmen befindet, oder die Rechtsform, die ein Unternehmen g...

In diesem Kapitel werden Beschaffung und Materialwirtschaft als Teile des strategischen Einkaufs und der Produktion eines Unternehmens erläutert. Es wird dargestellt, wie Entscheidungen über den Beschaffungsvorgang getroffen werden und wie durch den Einsatz verschiedener Instrumente die Kosten minimiert, die Flexibilität erhalten und die Qualität u...

Das Rechnungswesen lässt sich in einen internen (Controlling) und einen externen (Rechnungslegung) Informationsbeschaffungsbereich aufteilen. Beides dient der systematischen Erfassung der durch betriebliche Leistungsprozesse entstehenden Geld- und Leistungsströme. Die entsprechenden Informationen werden zusammengestellt, um Außenstehenden Rechensch...

Im Zuge der voranschreitenden Globalisierung gewinnt die Internationalisierung der Märkte zunehmend an Bedeutung für Entscheidungen in Unternehmen. In diesem Kapitel werden verschiedene Formen und Ausprägungen von Internationalisierungsvorhaben und -strategien erläutert. Unternehmen, die ihre Beschaffung, Leistungserstellung oder -verwertung auf mi...

Das Kapitel Personalwirtschaft (Human Ressource Management) beschäftigt sich mit der Personalbeschaffung, dem Personaleinsatz, der Personalentwicklung, der Personalbeurteilung und der Vergütung des Personals. Vor allem, da das Arbeitsentgelt für die meisten Unternehmen einen der größten Kostenfaktoren darstellt, spielt die Personalentlohnung eine s...

Die Finanzwirtschaft beschäftigt sich mit der Beschaffung von Fremd- oder Eigenkapital zur Liquiditätssicherung. Dieses Kapitel beschreibt verschiedene Formen der Finanzierung. Es wird dargestellt, wie der Kapitalbedarf eines Unternehmens berechnet wird, wie die Kapitalstruktur beurteilt werden kann und welche Verfahren der Investitionsrechnung es...

In diesem Kapitel wird aufgezeigt, welche organisatorischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten Unternehmen haben. Zudem werden unterschiedliche Organisationsstrukturen erläutert. Die Auswirkungen verschiedener Formen der Aufgabengliederung, der Verteilung von Entscheidungsbefugnissen und der Macht in einem Unternehmen werden diskutiert. Dabei wird auf formel...

In diesem Kapitel wird eine Einordnung der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in die Wirtschaftswissenschaften vorgenommen, die betriebswirtschaftlichen Funktionen werden erläutert und der Prozess der betrieblichen Wertschöpfung wird dargestellt. Dabei werden die Teilgebiete der Betriebswirtschaftslehre beschrieben und theoretische Konzepte vorgestellt.

Im Kapitel Produktionswirtschaft werden Ziele, Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Produktion erläutert. Es wird dargestellt, wie Produktionsabläufe und das Produktionsprogramm geplant werden und wie dabei die Qualität der Produkte gesichert wird. Dabei wird erläutert, welche Ziele in der Produktion gesetzt werden können und welche R...

Strategic orientations attracted considerable research attention from management, marketing, and entrepreneurship scholars. However, the majority of studies focused on a particular orientation and the relationship between strategic orientations attracted limited research attention. The present paper takes a configurational perspective and investiga...

This article examines how firm-based and founder-based determinants of international (as opposed to domestic) new venturing are moderated by perceived barriers to internationalization. In order to test the theoretically derived hypotheses, this article applies event history analysis to a sample of technology firms. The results show that the influen...

While previous studies have shown that firms need to build a favourable employer image to prevail in the war for talent we still lack of an international perspective on employer branding. Based on a survey among engineering students from China, India, Germany, and Hungary, we show that the impact of some facets of employer image (e.g. task attracti...

Research undertaken by Cranet has shown that HR management is typically awarded an only second-rank position in the various functions of business management. Although this phenomenon can be observed worldwide, the situation is particularly striking in Germany (Kabst & Giardini, 2006; Weber & Kabst, 2002).

Purpose – Although the percentage of female entrepreneurs has increased over the past several years, it is far below the level of males. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and role congruity theory, the purpose of this paper is to specify a model in which the relationship between gender and EI is mediated by three essential motivational cons...

Information sharing has recently received considerable academic interest because of the importance knowledge management plays in the creation of sustained competitive advantage for global firms. The interest is attributed to the need for achieving higher levels of worker empowerment and effectiveness. However, the existing research in the area lack...

The concept and aim of an evidence-based entrepreneurship (EBE) is discussed as a strategy to overcome the divide between knowledge developed in the field of entrepreneurship and its use in practice. Evidence constitutes the best summary of knowledge based on several sources of information (several studies, several different research groups, severa...

Seitdem Ulrich (Human resource champions: the next agenda for adding value and delivering results, Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 1997) das Rollenverständnis eines strategisch handelnden Personalverantwortlichen neu geprägt hat, wird das Konzept des HR Business Partners weitreichend und zugleich kontrovers in Wissenschaft und Praxis diskuti...

This study examines how successive outsourcing of recruitment activities to an external provider—also known as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)—affects graduates' reactions. Using an experimental scenario technique, a total of 158 graduates participated in four hypothetical scenarios that have been developed as an experimental between-subject...