Wissenschaftliche Literatur Competitiveness

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Gaining Competitiveness Through Organisational Adjustments

The Implementation of Intellectual Property Holdings as a New Organisational Approach

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Das Thema Intellectual Property (IP) gewinnt im Rahmen der strategischen Ausrichtung erfolgreicher Unternehmen immer mehr an Bedeutung. Es handelt sich um ein Querschnittsthema, das sämtliche Bereiche eines Unternehmens betrifft und zu einer organisatorischen Neuausrichtung führen muss.

Die einseitige Orientierung an der Strategie anderer Mitbewerber ist Ausdruck einer oftmals zu einseitigen Benchmarkorientierung, die dazu führt, dass Unternehmen immer…

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…

Nadežda Jankelová / Diana Puhovichová

Organizational Innovation in the Age of Industry 4.0 from Management Perspective

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Industry 4.0, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, is a topic that has recently attracted significant research attention. It is characterized by its potential, which transfers into the transformation of a traditional industry into a smart industry with advanced modern technologies. In order for enterprises to cope with the rapid pace of Industry 4.0 development, a focus on introducing innovation into business processes is needed. An adequate set of…

Douglas MacKinnon / Martin Pavlovič

HOPONOMICS: Market analysis applied to the hop industry 1980–2020

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Hoponomics provides an unprecedented look into the hop industry between 1980 and 2020 and introduces the topic most taboo within the industry, how and why the market works the way it does.

With a half century of combined experience across varying segments of the industry, the authors analyze the inner workings of the industry from an economic perspective. The book begins with a cursory overview and brief history of the hop industry for the unfamiliar reader. As…

Martin Krikken

The Organizational Response to Remote Service Delivery

A Competence-Based Exploration of Remotability in the Capital Goods Sector

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Fueled by the arrival of the Internet, modern technologies have been gradually relaxing the need for physical proximity between service providers and service objects, which has long been considered a major burden for global service delivery. The utilization of remote service delivery, in particular, puts service providers in the promising position to offer service elements to service objects at any given location and at any given time. Naturally, this raises vital…

Oliver Treidler

From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 and Beyond

Rethinking the Rationale for a Common European Economic Policy

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

During the last couple of years the lack of competitiveness of many European economies has been brutally exposed. This book presents a detailed analysis of the failed attempt of the European Commission to enhance competitiveness and rethinks the rationale for delegating competences to the EU.

The Lisbon Strategy, which was initiated in 2000, has failed to attain the goal of turning Europe into the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world. In 2010 the…

Mojca K. Šebart / Andreja Hočevar

Delusions of Preschool Education

Does anyone care about the process quality anymore?

Frühpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis

How does the need for greater efficiency affect preschool education?

What happens if the focus of curriculum evaluation becomes the ratio between the length of child’s participation in preschool education and the learning outcomes at the initial and higher levels of education on the one hand, and the funds invested in preschool education on the other?

What changes in preschool institutions, if documents concerning development advocates that the…

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…

Bojan Jošt, Milan Coh, Ivan Cuk and Janez Vodičar

Expert Modeling of Athlete Sport Performance Systems

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

The development of a competitive sports culture is impossible without the appropriate organizational structures. Successful development of organizational sports culture depends on the successful fulfilment of roles by numerous individuals within its structure. An important value of competitive sport is of course competitiveness which is understood, in the broadest sense of the word, as that particular element which should generally lead to the highest possible quality of…

Lulavere Dervishaj

The Delegitimization of the EULEX-Mission by the Kosovar Society

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

EULEX, the rule of law mission of the EU, is building „a neo-institutional society in Kosovo“. It advises the government and with ist executive mandate is establishing rule-of-law judicial, police and customs and excise institutions in the multi-ethnic society.

Difficulties of the transformation process are analyzed and the effectiveness of EULEX is discussed in terms of capacity and resources. Key actors voice their opinions in illustrative interviews.…