decision-making

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Tina Štemberger

CHILDREN MATTER
Empowering teachers for generations to come

Schriften zur pädagogischen Psychologie

Throughout history, teachers and schools have always presented the reflection of societies, their priorities, needs and their orientation. Today, in the fast-changing world, teachers’ roles are changing, as are the expectations directed towards them. Teachers are faced with demands in terms of in-depth subject knowledge, advanced pedagogical skills, reflective practice and ability to adapt teaching to the needs of each individual as well as to the needs of the group of […]

Nina Groß

Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Wissenstransferprozesses für Teams in komplexen technischen Systemen

Schriften zur Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie

In technisch eng gekoppelten, risikoreichen Arbeitsumgebungen, so genannten komplexen technischen Systemen, können Fehler fatale Folgen für die Mitarbeitenden, die Organisation, die Umwelt oder durchaus auch Dritte haben. Die Anwendung von Falschem oder fehlendes Wissen, stellen dabei mögliche Faktoren dar, welche die Auftretenswahrscheinlichkeit von Fehlern erhöhen. Der Einsatz von Wissenstransferprozessen bietet einen möglichen Ansatzpunkt, um Wissen und Erfahrungen – […]

Daniel M. Ringel

Creating Insights in Large Markets

Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance

Today, firms face large and complex markets, in which they must make strategic and tactic decisions. However, their ability to make informed decisions is limited. First, they lack access to comprehensive data regarding the large markets in which they operate. Second, even in cases in which such data are available, traditional analysis methods in marketing cannot adequately address the vast quantities of data points involved thousands of consumers, firms, and products. […]

Thomas Rachfall

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Information Overload Phenomenon

Schriften zum Betrieblichen Rechnungswesen und Controlling

Most people are working with the help of information and communication technology (ICT), with a still rising rate of workplaces being equipped with new technology. More and more people are presumed to act efficiently with new ICT and services in an environment that is getting more multifaceted for employees in the communication process. In response to the quickly changing environments, individuals and organisations are suffering from information overload (IO). However, in […]

Benjamin Albrecht

Decision-Making Under Risk and Ambiguity

An Investigation of Risk Behavior in Different Financial Situations and a Search for Relevant Personality Traits

Schriften zur differenziellen Psychologie

In our daily life, we have many things to decide. These decisions include more or less risk. Many situations where we have to decide between different options are financial decisions. Such financial decisions include the risk to lose or the possibility to win money. But what are the psychological factors which influence decisions in such financial situations Are there personality traits which make people take greater risks? Can we detect critical neuronal patterns which […]

Héctor Augusto Misael Anaya Mondragon

Investment Arbitration with a Special Focus on ICSID and Latin America

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

This work focuses on investment disputes between foreign investors and host states in Latin America that were primarily resolved under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the ICSID Additional Facility Rules.

By performing a case-by-case analysis on selected arbitral awards and decisions rendered by ICSID tribunals and ad hoc committees, this work examines the decision making process of investment […]

Sabrina Jeworrek

The Behavioral Impact of Non-Monetary Workplace Characteristics

Laboratory and Field Experimental Evidence

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

This thesis covers four independent research articles on the behavioral impact of selected non-monetary workplace characteristics – i.e. employee voice, task characteristics, and the provision of information – on workers’ individual decision making and workplace performance.

Given the neoclassical assumption of purely self-interested and completely rational utility maximizing individuals (Homines economici), workplace characteristics should be of little interest […]

Julia Plein

Die Bedeutung des Patient Empowerment für die Behandlungsqualität

Analyse der Einflussgrößen des Patient Empowerment auf Patientenzufriedenheit und Compliance im Rahmen der Versorgung chronisch kranker Patienten

Schriftenreihe Gesundheitswissenschaften

Die Beziehung zwischen Arzt und Patient unterliegt in den letzten Jahren zunehmend einem fundamentalen Wandel von einem rein paternalistisch geprägten Modell (Patient = Befehlsempfänger des Arztes) hin zu einem partnerschaftlich geprägten gemeinsamen Weg der Behandlungsgestaltung, in welcher der Patient zunehmend Verantwortung für die Behandlung übernimmt und Autonomie erlangt. Im Mittelpunkt der Ausarbeitung steht das Konzept des Patient Empowerment, der gezielten […]

Dmytro Palekhov

Potential for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a Regional Planning Instrument in Ukraine

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool for integrating environmental concerns into policies, plans and programmes at the earlier stages of decision-making. It stimulates socio-economic development that causes minimal harm to the environment. Consequently, SEA is internationally recognised as one of the most important and direct methods for implementing the concept of sustainability.

This study explores the potential of SEA as a regional planning […]

Eleazar Mbock Njock

Balance Measurement Methods in Data Envelopment Analysis

Concept, Models and Applications

QM – Quantitative Methoden in Forschung und Praxis

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a benchmarking tool that evaluates the relative efficiency by comparing peer decision making units (DMUs) which transform varying quantities of the same set of inputs into varying amounts of the same set of outputs. The efficiency score is defined as the ratio of the weighted sum of outputs to the weighted sum of inputs. Input and output weights are not a priori specified but determined model endogenously. Consequently each DMU is free […]