Wissenschaftliche Literatur Challenges

Klaus Püschel and Satoru Miyaishi (Eds.)

Advances in Legal Medicine

from a Japanese-German Perspective

Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Hamburg

It was the unforgettable Prof. Taizo Nagano who initiated the new and first INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ADVANCES IN LEGAL MEDICINE (ISALM) under his chairmanship in Kanazawa (1990). In his preface for the proceedings Prof. Nagano wrote: „...With the remarkable advances in medicine and the rapid development of social pluralism, an increase in the diversification of social roles and responsibilities is also seen in the field of legal medicine. To meet these challenges, a new…

Sophie Wohlhage

AACSB-Accreditation of a German School of Business

A Sensemaking Perspective

LEHRE & FORSCHUNG – Hochschule im Fokus.
Interdisziplinäre Schriftenreihe zu Hochschulbildung, Hochschulleben, Hochschulmanagement und Hochschulpolitik

Accreditation as part of quality management has become increasingly popular within the sector of higher education – especially in the field of management education. Accreditation processes pursue the idea of continuous improvement through the cyclic assessment of organizations against internationally agreed and accepted quality standards.

The longitudinal study examines the AACSB accreditation case of a German business school. AACSB accreditation bases on…

Christoph Behrens (ed.)

Complexity Governance: Change Management under Challenges of Glocalization

POLITICA – Schriftenreihe zur politischen Wissenschaft

Growing complexity due to globalization, migration, increasing speed of developments and other factors is ubiquitous. As a result, a lack of governability has become a global phenomenon. Based on experiences within a long term governance reform project in Indonesia, the interdisciplinary and international team of the Center for Good Governance has developed a model for complexity governance which is outlined in this volume. Applied exemplarically in several key…

Hubertus R. Drobner

Quo vadis, Bologna?

The Challenges to Catholic Higher Education in Germany

LEHRE & FORSCHUNG – Hochschule im Fokus.
Interdisziplinäre Schriftenreihe zu Hochschulbildung, Hochschulleben, Hochschulmanagement und Hochschulpolitik

„Niemand kann zwei Herren dienen? (Matthäusevangelium 6:24). Doch genau das wird von den Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultäten in Deutschland erwartet. Sie sollen gleichzeitig den staatlichen Vorgaben folgen als auch den Vorschriften des Heiligen Stuhles, die beide – wenn auch in unterschiedlicher Weise – ihre eigenen Wertvorstellungen verfolgen. Begreiflicherweise muss diese Situation zu Konflikten, wenn nicht sogar zu unlösbaren Problemen führen. Genau zu wissen, wo,…

Ye Wang

Network Copyright Protection in China

Studien zum Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und zum Urheberrecht

This book is about the situation of the network copyright protection in China from the perspectives of legislative, judicial and administrative enforcement.

Part one briefly introduces the legislative thought and legislative procedure and history of copyright law. Then it introduces the main legislative contents of the network copyright, which includes the understanding of the information network communication right in China, the protection of technical…

Eric Asoh

Assessing the Impact of Sustainability Standards as a Strategy for Livelihood Sustainability in the Cocoa Industry

in the South West Region of Cameroon

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This study assesses the impact of Fairtrade on the livelihood sustainability of smallholder cocoa producers in the South West region of Cameroon. In Cameroon just like in many other developing countries, the smallholder farmers have deficient strategies with limited production and productivity resulting in vulnerability such as poverty, low resilient level etc. Though there are other factors that might limit production and productivity of the farmers, deficient strategies…

Tobias Wiens

Scheduling – Transportation – Pricing

Selected Problems and their Solutions

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Tobias Wiens investigates three selected problems in the fields of scheduling, transportation and pricing, with the aim of introducing appropriate analytical methods as a basis for better decision making. The author first introduces the new research field of team assignment and scheduling, taking into account team production effects. In contrast to the opinions prevalent in literature on job splitting, a given job’s processing time is not simply its default processing…

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Transfer of Studies Regarding Environmental Problems to the Field of Economy Through Education

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph entitled Transfer of the Environmental Problems in the Economy Through Education is an important interdisciplinary work, dealing with ecology, agriculture, education and the environment. The monograph encompasses 11 scientific studies prepared by 22 authors, either as individual authors or as co-authors. Each contribution presents a clearly defined research problem, methodology and citation of references. The development of ecological…

Thomas Krikser

The Contribution of Foundations to an Ecofriendly and Sustainable Development

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

Foundations have become an important player for finding solutions for societal challenges. Besides other issues, environmental activities belong to the main topics of foundations. However, there is a lack of research on the contribution of environmental foundation for an ecofriendly and sustainable development. This scientific desideratum occurs especially in Germany where no comprehensive database on foundations exists, and only estimations about their environmental…

Bernard Wiśniewski, Gerald G. Sander, Paweł Kobes (eds.)

Management Contexts in Security Institutions

Schriften zu Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Europäischen Integration

This publication is an attempt to depict major problems regarding management of institutions in charge of public security. The study takes into account aspects such as civil protection, safety of population in emergency situations and crisis management. Security-related research reaches strategic significance when it sets the course of actions, is future-related, expresses the needs and challenges and is accomplishable. [...]