Wissenschaftliche Literatur Challenges

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, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Uganda, “one party constitutions were amended to introduce a bill of rights. [...]

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 returns, e.g., how to deal with abusive customers, or what to consider when implementing marketing activities and whether these could…

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 free trade policy, stating that free trade may not necessarily be benefiting all participants equally. In other words, other nations,…

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 neurophysiological changes in the brain and the remainder of the body.

Lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education…

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 customers to evaluate services before purchase, and thus assess the quality and the value of a service. Furthermore, since services…

José Luis Vallejo García

Intercultural Competence

A Conducive Factor of Managers‘ Readiness for Organizational Change

Personalwirtschaft

This book concerns intercultural competence and its impact on managers’ readiness for organizational change. According to the analysis presented in this study, managers who are culturally competent are significantly more likely to embrace organizational change and therefore better prepared for the new managerial challenges of today. In response to a survey of over 500 managers worldwide, the author proposes twelve hypotheses under three classic components: cognitive,…

Kevin Mac Gabhann

Bridging the Ethno-Cultural Gap

Managing Ethno-Cultural Differences in Healthcare Service Delivery in Hospital Settings: The Irish Experience

Personalwirtschaft

This book addresses how national health systems face the challenges of accommodating the cultural diversity of healthcare providers and service users. The author identifies the complexities of managing ethno-cultural diversity in healthcare, discussing critical areas such as intercultural competence, intercultural training, organizational wide approaches and diversity management. The study compares international institutional perspectives and focuses on the strategy…

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 markets?. This implies the enhanced cooperation of the involved actors on the EU, national and regional levels. This cooperation…

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 by dependence on the natural resource. The challenges arising from dependence on resources are described in the resource curse…

Inga Švarca

The Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights Regarding Countries in Transition

The ECtHR‘s Transitional Justice Cases against Latvia

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, all post-communist states in Europe were countries in transition facing specific judicial problems when they acceded to the European Convention on Human Rights.

These new Member States applied various transitional justice tools resulting in numerous applications examined by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Nevertheless, the ECtHR has not (yet) followed a clear and foreseeable methodical approach to deal with…