Mit Flexibilität durch die Krise – Fallstudien in produzierenden Unternehmen / With flexibility through the crisis – case studies in producing companies

Mallok Jörn ()
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Mallok Jörn: Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung (FH) Fachbereich Wirtschaft Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 28 D-16225 Eberswalde

Arbeit, 2011, vol. 20, issue 4, 261-276

Abstract: The article analyses, which kind of flexible activities have been used by a sample of 22 small and medium sized companies of the manufacturing sector and how they reacted on the economic slowdown between 2008 and 2009. It leads to the fact, that crises ridden companies have successfully used existing potentials of flexibility of personnel and machinery to keep their staff. In contrary to the hypothesis, that investments are avoided in periods of economic slowdown, a couple of the companies used government grants or special reductions in price granted by the producers to modernize their machinery well-directed and prepared themselves for future economic growth.

Keywords: employment; flexibility; economic slowdown; small and medium sized companies; manufacturing; economically underdeveloped regions; Beschäftigung; Flexibilität; Wirtschaftskrise; Mittelstand; Produktion; strukturschwache Regionen; employment; flexibility; economic slowdown; small and medium sized companies; manufacturing; economically underdeveloped regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2011-0403

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