Challenges

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, […]

Livingstone Sewanyana

Comparative Experiences of NGO Regulatory Frameworks

Eastern and Southern Africa

Verfassungsrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The growth of NGOs in sub-Saharan countries beginning in the 1990s, can be attributed to the ’new wave of democracy’ that led to the rebirth of associational life thus creating new spaces for people to organise. Hitherto many countries amended their constitutions to allow for political reforms. In countries such as Côte d‘Ivoire, Cameroon, […]

Siham El Kihal

Product Return Management in Online Retailing

Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance

Online retailers are challenged by high return rates and the associated return costs. At the same time, they do not know whether their efforts should end with policy formulation, or if subsequent active return management has the potential to further improve profits. They also face several challenges when deciding on how to manage product […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thomas Czarnecki

Challenges and Strategies for the Service Industry

An Empirical Analysis of Risk-Reducing Signals – The Example of the Hotel Industry

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

Service providers, such as hotels, airlines, or car rental companies, face great challenges when marketing their services. With regard to service characteristics such as intangibility or perishability, customers face higher risk when purchasing services than they do with tangible products. The lack of physical evidence makes it difficult for […]

David Yakubu Anambam

Added Value of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Non-Traditional Export Products in the Agricultural Sector of Ghana

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Ghana just like most developing countries is facing the challenge of how to deal with high poverty rates coupled with declining prices of traditional export products. The export of non-traditional export products in the agricultural sector is considered as one of the strategies to address poverty. However, concerns are been raised about the […]

Anita Hökelmann, Notger Müller, Kerstin Witte, Thomas Wolbers (Eds.)

Active Healthy Aging

Proceedings of the International Conference of Sports and Neuroscience „Active Healthy Aging, AHA 2015“, 2nd–5th September, Magdeburg, Germany

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

This question has been of interest to mankind for a long time. The average lifetime has grown constantly across the last 150 years; however, what really matters is a long healthy life span.

But what is to do?

Normal aging is associated with the decline of physical and cognitive abilities along with structural and […]

Kiryl Kascian

Legal Framework for SMEs as a Structural Factor for Regional Development

A Case-Study of Techonology Park-Based Innovative SMEs in Bremen, Gdansk and Klagenfurt

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

The EU steadily aims to increase its economic competitiveness so that it is capable to successfully stand the existing economic challenges and to maintain economic, territorial and social cohesion. The accomplishment of these goals is connected with the completion of the EU internal market which is regarded as “a system of open and competitive […]

Martin Schneider

Resource Wealth and Sustainable Development

A Comparative Analysis of the GCC Countries

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Natural resource-rich countries that are dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the resources, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face several challenges. They can be classified as challenges arising by nature (non-renewability and depletability) and […]