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Neue Veröffentlichung Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsmethoden: Band 9 – Lineare Strukturgleichungsmodelle. Eine Einführung mit R

Holger Steinmetz

Lineare Strukturgleichungsmodelle
Eine Einführung mit R

Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsmethoden,
herausgegeben von
Wenzel Matiaske, Martin Spieß, Michael Berlemann, Ingwer Borg, Claudia Fantapié-Altobelli, Holger Hinz, Uwe Jirjahn, Bernhard Kittel, Stefan Liebig, Rainer Oesterreich, Jost Reinecke, Kai-Uwe Schnapp, Rainer Schnell, Peter Sedlmeier, Wilfried Seidel, Carolin Strobl, Gerhard Tutz,

Band 9
Rainer Hampp Verlag, München u. Mering 2014, 190 S.,
ISBN 978-3-95710-020-7 (print), € 24.80
ISBN 978-3-95710-120-4 (e-book pdf), € 22.99

Lineare Strukturgleichungsmodelle sind aus der verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Forschung nicht mehr wegzudenken. Sie sind ein nützliches Werkzeug, um Hypothesen über Beziehungen zwischen Variablen zu prüfen und – mehr noch – Implikationen kausaler Strukturen zu testen. In diesem Buch werden Grundlagen, Hintergründe und die Vorgehensweisen bei der Spezifizierung von Kausalmodellen diskutiert. Dies wird an einem empirischen Beispiel und unter Verwendung des lavaan-Pakets innerhalb der Software R illustriert. Der Schwerpunkt des Buchs liegt hierbei weniger auf methodischen und statistischen Aspekten eines Modells, sondern auf der adäquaten Übersetzung der theoretischen Vorstellungen in ein Modell. Ein besonderer Stellenwert wird dem Verständnis der kausalen Implikationen von Modellen, der theoretische Bedeutung von Variablen, der Diagnostik einer Fehlanpassung an die Daten und modernen Konzepten wie dem Instrumentalvariablen-Ansatz aus der Ökonometrie und dem d-separation-Konzept, eingeräumt. Somit bietet das Buch sowohl einen Einstieg für Anfänger/innen als auch interessante Inhalte für Fortgeschrittene.

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Schlüsselwörter: Lineare Strukturgleichungsmodelle, Kausalität,
d-separation, Endogenität, Instrumentalvariablen, Lavaan

Holger Steinmetz ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für International Business Studies
der Universität Paderborn.

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Call for Papers: Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption (Seminar & Special Issue of Management Revue)

Call for Papers

Seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik (April 20-24th, 2015) & Special Issue of Management Revue
Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption

Ortrud Leßmann, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)
Torsten Masson, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Leipzig (Germany)
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)
Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark

The problem of sustainability has received serious attention since the Club of Rome pointed to the limits of growth in 1972. Addressing ecological, economic and social issues, it is still a major – perhaps the biggest – challenge humanity faces. The problem demands attention by actors from all social levels. On the micro-level, sustainable consumption is often regarded as the major way how individual consumers can contribute to sustainable development. By now a growing number of people are aware that many consumption habits have to be changed because they are in conflict with the goal of sustainable development. Yet, there is a gap between knowledge and action. Much research has been done in the last 30 years on sustainable consumption, exploring the motivations, practices, opportunities, and drivers for sustainable consumption from economic, psychological and sociological perspectives. Despite this multidisciplinary effort and the often interdisciplinary nature of research on sustainable consumption, there is room for broadening the perspectives further. In particular, the link between political participation and sustainable consumption as a political statement as well as the link between various forms and objectives of political consumption deserves more attention. Further, the impact of societal inequality on sustainable consumption has not gained much attention. Especially research on the interaction between inequality, issues of security and precariousness, political participation and consumption behavior is lacking.

In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, http://www.iuc.hr/, 20.-24. April 2015), we would like to discuss our topic in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way.  We are particularly interested in questions such as:

  • Inequality (e.g., precariousness) and sustainable consumption
  • Citizenship and consumption
  • Sustainable consumption as a political statement
  • Quantitative and qualitative empirical studies on these issues

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline

Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to submit an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st, 2015 electronically via Management Revue’s online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘IUC Dubrovnik’ as article section.

All contributors to the seminar are invited to submit their paper for the special issue of management revue. Full papers must be submitted by July 31st, 2015. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due October 31st, 2015. Please submit your papers electronically via the online submission system at http://www.management-revue.org/submission/ using ‘SI Sustainable Consumption’ as article section.

Hoping to hear from you!

Ortrud Leßmann (o.lessmann@hsu-hh.de),
Wenzel Matiaske,
Torsten Masson,
Simon Fietze

Management Revue: Call for Papers – Labour Time – Life Time

Call for Papers

Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)
Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Gerd Grözinger, University of Flensburg (Germany)
Doris Holtmann, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)

Special Issue of Management Revue
Labour Time – Life Time

Ever since the beginning of industrialization the fight for the reduction of working hours was considered the way out of the “kingdom of necessity”. It was only in the 1980s, in the course of a decentralized organization in worldwide networks, that the paradigm changed to more flexible forms of working time management. This is no longer an issue of the collective actors alone but also of the individuals who have to cope with the increasing time flexibility in a socio-structurally differentiated way. From trust-based working hours to on-call duty, from the core workforce with a 35-hour week to temporary work: the contemporary organization of working time took since long already various forms. In addition, the ongoing economic crisis leads in many European countries to forced over-employment and under-employment at the same time.

At the same time the topics are changing under which the problems of the “flexible character” in balancing different aspects of life are discussed in (human resource) management, psychology and sociology. Role conflicts, the balance of work, free time and family or burnout as a possible consequence are keywords which show that work and work time cannot be separated from life time.

In the special issue, we would like to discuss our topic in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

  • Disparities of working time and desired working hours in the course of time
  • Quantitative and qualitative working-time regimes
  • Time-related stress and wealth in time
  • Balancing life domain work conflict
  • Models of labour time re-distribution
  • Externalities of problematic working time arrangements, e.g. influences on family life, happiness, fertility etc.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline
Full papers for this special edition of ‘management revue’ must be with the editors by July 31st, 2014. All submissions will be subject to a double blind review process. Please submit your papers electronically via the journal submission system using ‘Labour Time – Life Time’ as article section.

Hoping to hear from you!

Wenzel Matiaske,
Simon Fietze,
Gerd Grözinger,
Doris Holtmann

Management Revue: Call for Papers – Innovation Management and Innovation Networks

Call for papers

Special Issue
Innovation Management and Innovation Networks

Innovation is the creation and transformation of new knowledge into new products, processes, or services that meet market needs. As such, innovation creates new businesses and is the fundamental source of growth in business and industry and can be the key driver for the creation of more sustainable economies and company strategies.

The ability to generate and sustain innovation has become critical for companies as markets grow more global, open, and competitive, and as customer expectations grow more diverse and demanding.

This special issue wants to cover the current issues in innovation management and innovation networks and is interested in topics like:

  • The impact of new sustainability requirements on the dynamic capabilities that a firm should develop and sustain to remain innovative and therewith competitive in turbulent environments. In particular, which new innovation capabilities are required to integrate environmental, social and financial objectives?
  • How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries?
  • Balancing capability building for radical and incremental innovations. Incremental innovation capabilities consist of skills and competences that refine existing products, while radical innovation capabilities are covering skills which are needed to significantly transform existing products or services. What kind of learning creates capabilities needed for the generation of incremental or of radical innovations? What kind of lessons can be taken respectively how to manage the process of developing capabilities in innovation management?
  • Analysis of innovation networks: Economic operations and thus innovations are embedded in social relations and structures. Therefore, the organizational units that create innovation are not individual businesses, but usually networks. From a resource point of view, networks hold a variety of advantages for their members, such as access to material and immaterial resources, information and knowledge. How can the new role of intermediaries as an architect of collective exploration and creation of knowledge in open innovation be described? What are the key variables in the process of managing innovation networks? Any kind of discussions and analysis of innovation networks are welcome.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline
Full papers for this special edition of ‘management revue’ must be with the editors by July 31st, 2014. All submissions will be subject to a double blind review process. Please submit your papers electronically via the journal submission system at https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/mrev/ using ‘Innovation Management’ as article section.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Simon Fietze, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)

Call for Papers: Labour Time – Life Time (SI Management Revue)

Ever since the beginning of industrialization the fight for the reduction of working hours was considered the way out of the “kingdom of necessity”. It was only in the 1980s, in the course of a decentralized organization in worldwide networks, that the paradigm changed to more flexible forms of working time management. This is no longer an issue of the collective actors alone but also of the individuals who have to cope with the increasing time flexibility in a socio-structurally differentiated way. From trust-based working hours to on-call duty, from the core workforce with a 35-hour week to temporary work: the contemporary organization of working time took since long already various forms. In addition, the ongoing economic crisis leads in many European countries to forced over-employment and under-employment at the same time.

At the same time the topics are changing under which the problems of the “flexible character” in balancing different aspects of life are discussed in (human resource) management, psychology and sociology. Role conflicts, the balance of work, free time and family or burnout as a possible consequence are keywords which show that work and work time cannot be separated from life time.

In the special issue and the corresponding seminar (IUC Dubrovnik, 23 – 27 April 2014), we would like to discuss our topic in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

  • Disparities of working time and desired working hours in the course of time
  • Quantitative and qualitative working-time regimes
  • Time-related stress and wealth in time
  • Balancing life domain work conflict
  • Models of labour time re-distribution
  • Externalities of problematic working time arrangements, e.g. influences on family life, happiness, fertility etc.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline

Potential contributors to the seminar at the IUC Dubrovnik are encouraged to contact the guest editors directly with an abstract of 1-2 pages before January, 31st 2014. A limited amount of travel grants for scholars from German universities are available.

Full papers for a special issue of management revue (http://www.management-revue.org/) must be with the editors by July 31st 2014. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a “revise and resubmit” are due October 31st 2014. Please submit your papers electronically to Wenzel Matiaske at using as subject “IUC Dubrovnik: Working Time”.

Hoping to hear from you!

Wenzel Matiaske
Simon Fietze
Gerd Grözinger
Doris Holtmann

Management Revue – Socio-econ​omic Studies – Vol. 24, Issue 3

3rd Issue 2013
Management Revue, Volume 24

Special Issue
Theory and Practice of Flexible Work: Organizational and Individual Perspectives
edited by Jan Dettmers, Stephan Kaiser, and Simon Fietze

Contents

Theory and Practice of Flexible Work: Organizational and Individual Perspectives. Introduction to the Special Issue
Jan Dettmers, Stephan Kaiser, Simon Fietze
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Patterns of Organizational Flexibility in Knowledge-intensive Firms – Going Beyond Existing Concepts
Caroline Ruiner, Uta Wilkens, Monika Küpper
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The Implications of Flexible Work: Membership in Organizations Revisited
Angelika Schmidt
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Employment-related Demands and Resources – New Ways of Researching Stress in Flexible Work Arrangements
Tim Valhe-Hinz, Katharina Kirschner, Maja Thomson
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Conflict between Work and Life: The Case of Contract Workers in the German IT and Media Sectors
Shiva Sayah, Stefan Süß
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Call for Papers

Innovation Networks
edited by Susanne Gretzinger, Simon Fietze, and Wenzel Matiaske

Forthcoming Issues

Financial Participation
edited by Wenzel Matiaske, Andrew Pendleton, and Eric Poutsma

Managing Diversity
edited by Charlotte Gaitanides, Gerd Groezinger, and Wenzel Matiaske

Call for Papers: Innovation Networks – Special Issue Management Revue

Call for Papers

Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg
Simon Fietze, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (Germany)

Special Issue: Innovation Networks

Economic operations and thus innovations are embedded in social relations and structures.

Therefore, the organizational units that create innovation are not individual businesses, but usually networks. From a resource point of view, networks hold a variety of advantages for their members, such as access to material and immaterial resources, information and knowledge.

Powell et al. (1996), for example, conclude in their study on innovation behavior in pharmaceutical companies that companies that are not able to initiate networks or form a cooperation have strategic disadvantages on the market. In this context, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered to be dependent on the social capital of networks, because of the limited resources they have under direct control due to their size.

In the European context national economies are depending very much on SMEs. Depending on definition the companies of the European economies are consisting between 70 and 95 % of small or medium-sized companies. While huge companies are hosting all the resources, which are in need to set up innovation capabilities themselves, SME are depending much more on cooperation compared to huge companies. Furthermore SMEs do have to take higher risks into accountwhen cooperating with other partners. Huge companies do have much better possibilities just to buy in complementary resources while SMEs have to develop trustful relationship to prevent losing their competitive edge or from dropping into the trap of the dark side of social capital.

The importance of innovation for national economies has motivated policy makers to promote innovation capabilities of their economies and therewith the circumstances of SMEs. To promote economically relevant information to SMEs, the public sector provides specific advisory services. From strategic management’s point of view, the involvement of cooperation partners and intermediaries is on the one hand necessary but on the other hand accompanied by the risk of losing specific knowledge to the business environment.

In this special issue, we would like to discuss innovation networks of businesses – in particular SMEs – from a social network analysis (SNA) perspective. Theoretical and conceptual contributions as well as empirical work linking innovation networks of businesses and SNA are of interest.

Deadline

Full papers for this special edition of ‘management revue’ must be with the editors by October 31st, 2013. All submissions will be subject to a double blind review process. Papers invited for a ‘revise and resubmit’ are due on January 31st, 2014. It is anticipated that the special edition will appear as Issue No. 2 in 2014. Please submit your papers electronically via the journal submission system at https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/mrev/ using ‘Innovation Networks’ as article section

Looking forward to hearing from you

Susanne Gretzinger
Simon Fietze
Wenzel Matiaske

Call for Papers as PDF

Neue Veröffentlichung: Organisationen regeln: Die Wirkmacht korporativer Akteure

Hrsg.: Duschek, Stephan / Gaitanides, Michael / Matiaske, Wenzel / Ortmann, Günther

Organisationen regeln: Die Wirkmacht korporativer Akteure

Aus der Reihe: Organisation und Gesellschaft

2012. 301 S. mit 12 Abb. u. 2 Tab. Br.
ISBN: 978-3-531-18039-7

Prominent besetzter Band zur Organisationsforschung

Das Buch

„Es ist eine der großen Illusionen unserer Zeit, dass ‚Macht aus dem Lauf der Gewehre kommt.‘ In Wirklichkeit kommt Macht aus Organisationen …“ (John R. Searle)

Organisationen regeln, was zählt und als was es zählt – nicht nur in ihren eigenen, inneren Angelegenheiten. Zwar werden sie ihrerseits reguliert. Auch bei der Regulation aber sind sie die mächtigen Akteure. Cum grano salis: Sie regeln sogar noch, wie sie selbst geregelt werden.
Der Band geht daher den soziologischen, ökonomischen und philosophischen Problemen des rule following und den Fragen nach: Wie regeln und steuern Organisationen? Wie werden sie geregelt und gesteuert? Welche Evolution und pfadabhängige Entwicklung machen Regeln, Institutionen und Organisationen durch?

Antworten der renommiertesten Fachleute auf diesem Gebiet sind in den Band versammelt, u. a. von Erhard Friedberg, Alfred Kieser, Hartmut Kliemt, Renate Mayntz, Günther Ortmann, und Werner Patzelt.

Aus dem Inhalt

Regeln und rule following in Organisationen.- Die Evolution von Organisationen und die Funktion von Regeln.- Wer steuert Organisationen? Wie steuern Organisationen? Wie werden sie gesteuert?
Mit Beiträgen von: Hans Julius Schneider.- Werner Patzelt.- Günther Ortmann.- Thomas Klatetzki.- Hartmut Kliemt.- Peter Kappelhoff.- Albert Martin.- Stephan Duschek.- Alfred Kieser.- Erhard Friedberg.- Renate Mayntz.- Dieter Sadowski, Kai Kühne.

Zielgruppe

Studierende, Dozierende und Forschende der Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Herausgeber

Prof. Dr. Stephan Duschek, Prof. Dr. Michael Gaitanides, Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske und Prof. Dr. Günther Ortmann sind Inhaber von Professuren für Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg.

Neues Doktoranden-Netzwerk: Hochschulen im Norden kooperieren

Pressemitteilung Nr. 03/2010

Hochschulen aus Hamburg, Lüneburg, Flensburg und Dänemark wollen die Ausbildung ihrer Doktoranden in human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fächern deutlich verbessern. Sie haben ein Netzwerk gegründet, das die Qualifizierung untereinander verknüpft und ergänzt. Initiiert wurde das Netz von Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske von der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg.
In der Hochschulöffentlichkeit ist in der Vergangenheit viel über die Qualität der Doktorandenausbildung diskutiert worden. Sie sei zu lang, zu einseitig und zu unstrukturiert, wurde kritisiert. Die human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten im Norden wollen die Attraktivität und die Qualität der Doktorandenausbildung wieder steigern. Sie haben ein Netzwerk gegründet, das den Promovenden aller teilnehmenden Einrichtungen vielfältige Bildungsangebote eröffnet.
Hat bisher jede Fakultät ihr eigenes Süppchen gekocht, profitieren nun alle Doktoranden des Netzwerkes von einem großen Info-Topf. Unter https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/ finden sie Seminare und Workshops, die ihnen bisher verschlossen geblieben sind, weil sie an einer fremde Hochschule stattfanden. Nun sind die Veranstaltungen für alle zugänglich. Kooperationen mit dem Hamburgischen WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI), dem Kieler Regionalableger des Instituts für Arbeits- und Berufsforschung (IAB) und dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) runden das Qualifizierungsangebot ab. Welche Kurse es gibt, ist auf der Homepage hinterlegt. Zusätzlich finden sich dort Hinweise über Teilnahmebedingungen und Kursgebühren.
Das Angebot ist auf die human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, der Universitäten Hamburg, Flensburg und Leuphana in Lüneburg sowie des Instituts für Grenzforschung der Syddansk Universitet (SDU) begrenzt. Bald sollen weitere Hochschulen hinzukommen. Der Initiator und derzeitige Koordinator des Netzwerkes, Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske von der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität möchte den Verbund in den kommenden zwei Jahren zum „Collegium Mare Balticum“ auf den gesamten Ostseeraum ausweiten.

Hochschulen aus Hamburg, Lüneburg, Flensburg und Dänemark wollen die Ausbildung ihrer Doktoranden in human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fächern deutlich verbessern. Sie haben ein Netzwerk gegründet, das die Qualifizierung untereinander verknüpft und ergänzt. Initiiert wurde das Netz von Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske von der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg.

In der Hochschulöffentlichkeit ist in der Vergangenheit viel über die Qualität der Doktorandenausbildung diskutiert worden. Sie sei zu lang, zu einseitig und zu unstrukturiert, wurde kritisiert. Die human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten im Norden wollen die Attraktivität und die Qualität der Doktorandenausbildung wieder steigern. Sie haben ein Netzwerk gegründet, das den Promovenden aller teilnehmenden Einrichtungen vielfältige Bildungsangebote eröffnet.

Hat bisher jede Fakultät ihr eigenes Süppchen gekocht, profitieren nun alle Doktoranden des Netzwerkes von einem großen Info-Topf. Unter https://hermes.hsu-hh.de/doctoralstudy/ finden sie Seminare und Workshops, die ihnen bisher verschlossen geblieben sind, weil sie an einer fremde Hochschule stattfanden. Nun sind die Veranstaltungen für alle zugänglich. Kooperationen mit dem Hamburgischen WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI), dem Kieler Regionalableger des Instituts für Arbeits- und Berufsforschung (IAB) und dem Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) runden das Qualifizierungsangebot ab. Welche Kurse es gibt, ist auf der Homepage hinterlegt. Zusätzlich finden sich dort Hinweise über Teilnahmebedingungen und Kursgebühren.

Das Angebot ist auf die human-, sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, der Universitäten Hamburg, Flensburg und Leuphana in Lüneburg sowie des Instituts für Grenzforschung der Syddansk Universitet (SDU) begrenzt. Bald sollen weitere Hochschulen hinzukommen. Der Initiator und derzeitige Koordinator des Netzwerkes, Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske von der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität möchte den Verbund in den kommenden zwei Jahren zum „Collegium Mare Balticum“ auf den gesamten Ostseeraum ausweiten.