Cooperation between companies is a daily business practice when producing goods and services. German companies employ various ways for cooperation, such as using third-party intermediate products or subservices, outsourcing and insourcing of production or service areas, and external service provision by the means of temporary employment agencies or contracts for work and services.
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) together with infas Institute for Applied Social Sciences (infas) and the Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research (NIW) are conducting a research project on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Media coverage is often defined by unrepresentative particular cases. This project on the contrary intends to gather information on cooperation in the economy by conducting a representative survey in German companies.
Selected Publications
Expertises
Arntz, Melanie, Angelika Ganserer, Michael F. Maier, Katharina Sandbrink, Ulrich Schasse, Holger Schütz, Jacob Steinwede and Stephan L. Thomsen (2017), Verbreitung, Nutzung und mögliche Probleme von Werkverträgen - Quantitative Unternehmens- und Betriebsrätebefragung sowie wissenschaftliche Begleitforschung, Mannheim. Download
Schütz, Holger, Katharina Sandbrink, Jacob Steinwede, Melanie Arntz, Michael F. Maier and Angelika Ganserer (2017), Verbreitung, Nutzung und mögliche Probleme von Werkverträgen – Qualitative Betriebsfallstudien, Mannheim. Download
Client
Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
, Berlin
, DE
Project duration
15.12.2014 - 31.03.2017
Contact
Prof. Dr. Melanie Arntz
Prof. Dr. Holger Bonin
Project members
Prof. Dr. Melanie Arntz
(Coordinator)
Prof. Dr. Holger Bonin
Dr. Angelika Ganserer
Dr. Michael F. Maier
Departments
Cooperation partner
infas Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft GmbH, Bonn, DE
Niedersächsisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., Hannover, DE
